Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, "Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation" (Penguin, 2026)

About this episode

Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik discusses her book on healing from oppression-based trauma.

An essential guide to healing from oppression-based trauma, for everyone left outside of mainstream conversations There are many books on trauma healing that can change people’s lives. Yet when queer and trans people, people of color, and all of us living at the margins look for books that reflect our own experiences and that specifically name the oppression we experience as trauma, we’re left empty-handed. There’s little that speaks to the specific traumas we experience: homophobia, transphobia, institutional injustices, isolation, medical trauma, and discrimination at every turn. We deserve to have ourselves reflected and considered in the world of trauma recovery. In Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation (Penguin, 2026), somatic therapist Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik provides the best tools and approaches to healing trauma and filters them through an anti-oppression lens, making sure they’re uniquely impactful for all of us at the margins. In these pages, you’ll learn how trauma is stored and processed by our minds and bodies and how we can work with our amazingly flexible brains and nervous systems to create pathways to healing. You’ll…

People in this episode

Host: Marshall Poe

Guest: Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik

Topics covered

• trauma healing
• oppression
• queer and trans experiences
• self-liberation
• somatic therapy

Keywords

• trauma
• healing
• oppression
• queer
• trans
• self-liberation
• somatic therapy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Penguin

Books & works: Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation

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