Pre-order Releases Feb 16, 2027
Breaking the Survival Cycle: Somatic Practices for Ending Trauma Patterns and Healing Your Nervous System
by Maggie Hayes
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About the book
Breaking the Survival Cycle
“Many of us spend years believing our patterns are who we are, when they are actually adaptations our nervous system learned in order to survive. Maggie Hayes offers an accessible, compassionate guide to understanding those patterns and creating meaningful change through the body. This book empowers readers to move beyond survival and reconnect with their authentic selves.” —Dr. Nicole LePera, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers How to Do the Work, How to Be the Love You Seek, and Reparenting the Inner Child
If you feel stuck in patterns of stress, shutdown, or reactivity, your nervous system may still be operating in survival mode—and this book shows you how to gently change that.
Breaking the Survival Cycle is a practical, body-based guide for understanding how trauma lives in the nervous system—and how somatic practices can help you safely interrupt long-standing survival patterns.
Written by somatic practitioner Maggie Hayes, this book offers an accessible, step-by-step framework for working with the body to create regulation, safety, and choice, without forcing catharsis or reliving past trauma.
You will learn how to:
- Recognize common trauma-driven survival responses, including fight, flight, freeze, functional freeze, fawn, and shut-down
- Use gentle somatic practices, with beautifully illustrated steps, to regulate your nervous system in daily life
- Interrupt automatic patterns of overwhelm, shutdown, and chronic stress
- Build capacity for safety, presence, and resilience over time
Organized around clear concepts and practical exercises as part of Hayes’s Core Rising Method, the book blends education and narrative with embodied tools you can return to again and again. The tone is supportive, steady, trauma-informed, and designed to help you move at your own pace. Rather than asking you to “push through” or fix yourself, Breaking the Survival Cycle centers the body as a source of wisdom and healing.
This is the resource you need to step out of survival mode and develop practical, body-based skills for lasting nervous-system regulation and emotional stability.
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- Publisher
- Fair Winds Press
- Author
- Maggie Hayes
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Feb 16, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9798317901561
- Pages
- 176
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Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $15.49 | 38% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $14.49 | 42% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $13.49 | 46% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $12.99 | 48% off list |
| 1,000+ | $12.50 | 50% off list |
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