The Somatic Healing Workbook is a beginner-friendly somatic therapy workbook for adults seeking practical, body-based tools to manage stress, calm anxiety, release physical tension, and support nervous system regulation. With 100 short somatic exercises, it helps readers recognize their stress responses and choose techniques suited to what they are experiencing.

Created by Cheryl Groskopf, LMFT, LPCC—a Los Angeles–based therapist specializing in anxiety, overthinking, attachment wounds, and trauma, including complex trauma—this guided workbook combines approachable education with tools for everyday body-based stress relief.

Inside you’ll find:

• Practices for Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn: Identify your current stress response and find somatic exercises organized for that state.

• Specific, easy-to-follow techniques: Try vagal neck glides when a Fight response leaves your face hot and flushed, or loose-arm trunk twists when a Flight response makes you feel restless and on edge.

• 100 short body-based practices: Explore gentle movement, breathwork, grounding techniques, and vagus nerve exercises that can fit into daily life.

• Interactive workbook tools: Use reflection prompts, tracking tools, and checklists to notice patterns, monitor responses, and build a personalized practice.

• Support for everyday well-being: Develop greater body awareness, emotional regulation, resilience, and a steadier sense of calm.

With clear instructions and explanations of why each practice may help, these somatic exercises make nervous system care feel accessible and manageable.

Product details: 224 pages • 7 × 9 inches • Blue Star Press • ISBN: 9781969889158

Cheryl Groskopf is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor based in Los Angeles, specializing in overthinking, anxiety, attachment wounds, and trauma, including complex trauma.

Her work goes beyond logic and insight, helping clients understand why their minds and bodies work the way they do—and how to shift out of survival mode. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapy, and trauma-informed nervous system science, Cheryl helps clients get to know the parts of themselves that learned to overanalyze as a way to stay safe. Instead of trying to silence those parts, she works with them gently and respectfully, so they no longer have to carry everything alone.

She also brings a strong somatic focus to her work, helping clients notice what’s happening in their bodies beneath the racing thoughts—held breath, tight chests, quiet tension—and use that awareness to create safety and regulation over time.