n how to work with life events that leave traumatic imprints in your body and nervous system so that you can understand how danger, stress, illness, and other past traumas affect your present physical, emotional, and mental well- being, even when experienced before birth. The goal of these chapters is for you to learn first how stress originates. Then, the various defense system responses to danger. Finally, how trauma healing is approached today through the reorganization of those same defense responses. Such reorganization can be achieved through mind-body therapies such as Somatic Experiencing(R) from the revered Dr. Peter Levine, and The Points Holding ProcessTM (PHP) which focuses on dissolving crystallized belief patterns in the body.