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When the Body Speaks: How Somatic Healing Sets You Free 
By Liz Tenuto, HarperCollins (Dey St), April 2026

A comprehensive guide to understanding how trauma and stress are stored within the body—and how somatic exercises can provide a powerful tool for healing. 

Liz shares her moving personal narrative as well as stories of her work with students whose trauma- and stress-related physical, emotional, and cognitive issues have been healed through somatic exercises. She presents the latest scientific research on the health impacts of long-term stress and trauma, and the negative effects of living in survival mode (as so many of us do), while offering thoughtful insights into what it means to heal through the body. Liz teaches readers how to use movement to allow the nervous system to move from dysregulation to a state of homeostasis.

A survivor of childhood and adolescent sexual assault, Liz Tenuto began struggling with ailments like insomnia and chronic pain at a very young age. After visiting doctor after doctor and trying out different ways to heal, she took a somatics class—and it changed her life. Twenty years later,  Liz is a trauma-informed practitioner with a degree in psychology and training in somatics, with millions of followers around the world.