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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Stress and trauma trigger the brain’s ancient regions to activate our body's natural defense systems for survival.
Chapter 3: Without adequate recovery, stress accumulates in our bodies and brains, which can lead to dysregulation eventually.
Chapter 4: Dysregulation harms our health and decision-making.
Chapter 5: Chronic stress and unresolved trauma shrink the window in which we can efficiently manage stress.
Chapter 6: Our window’s starting size is shaped by our genetics, our childhoods, and the traumas we’ve endured in life.
Chapter 7: To widen our windows, we must foster understanding and train attention.
Chapter 8: Two simple MMFT exercises can help you release stress activation.
Chapter 9: MMFT plus healthy habits can help us regulate stress, emotions, chronic pain, and also heal dysregulation over time.
Description
Widen the Window (2019) is your guide to healing trauma, relieving chronic stress, and living fully in the present. Drawing on her personal experience as a military leader and building on the latest science, Elizabeth A. Stanley examines how stress and trauma impact our mind and body; how our culture incentivizes work over health; and how mindfulness can bridge the gap between our thinking brains and our bodies’ ancient survival stress response.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who has suffered physical or psychological trauma
- People working in the military, first response, and other high stress professions
- Overachievers, workaholics, and other “type A” personalities