Suzanne Jones - There Is Nothing to Fix

This is one of the best books on trauma ever writtenand its much more than that. Fast-paced, grounded in science, full of practical suggestions, and always hopeful, it is about living with courage and joy no matter what. Sue Jones draws on her personal history and vast experience with body-oriented practices to offer an original and effective program that is deeply healing while bringing us home to our true nature. Comprehensive, humane, and inspiring, this is a gem of a book.

Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

Suzanne Jones is a real-life superhero. She and I met in the context of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and her efforts to develop a yoga intervention to help people affected by various forms of trauma. Her personal testimony informs a truly excellent description of the nuances of traumatic experience that become internalized in the body and spirit, which can feed the progression of mental unwellness. The road map to recovery that she describes, grounded in both science and ancient practices, is accessible and practically feasible for all people. This is a useful book.

Giuseppe Raviola, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, global health, and social medicine, Harvard Medical School

There Is Nothing to Fix demands that we shift from a focus on trauma to engaging in the process of healing. Self-empowering and grounded in the blended wisdom of experience and science, it is a road map that recognizes the power of the individual to change the relationship they have with themselves as a pathway to happiness. I believe everyonewill see themselves in Suzanne Joness journey of healing through self-discovery and finding peace and power on the other side.

Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, president, National Crittenton

In There Is Nothing to Fix, Sue Jones cuts straight to the heart of our core human wounds and lays out an accessible and embodied path to healing. In a book that manages to be both deeply personal and startlingly universal, she reminds us that the price of our survival does not have to be our authenticity or our joy. Start reading, and whatever your age, gender, or circumstance, Sues clear and compassionate voice will help you write a more powerful story for yourself.

Jennifer Cohen Harper, author of Thank You Body, Thank You Heart and founder of Little Flower Yoga

There Is Nothing to Fix is strongly rooted in both experiential and empirical evidence. Sue shares her story authentically, inviting readers in while also sharing tools of TIMBo in an accessible way. TIMBo is a valuable technique for embodied healing, and one that worksI have witnessed this both through personal accounts and empirical data, and I am honored to have had the opportunity to share the story of TIMBo through my research.

Danielle Rousseau, PhD, LMHC, assistant professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Boston University

Suzanne Jones has written a wonderfully accessible and comprehensive book on how to heal from trauma. She vulnerably shares her personal experience and how that led to the birth of creative interventions that are refreshingly available and effective. There Is Nothing to Fix is a very important read for everyone. Ive been using TIMBo in my clinical practice and recommend the same to anyone who works with survivors of all likes.

Mindy B. Loiselle, LCSW, coauthor of Back on Track, Shining Through, and Rewind, Rebound; author of Care for Trafficked Children (USCCB) and The Trafficked Child: Trauma and Resilience (Forced Migration Review)

This book is a game-changer. The world needs There Is Nothing to Fix, and without a doubt, I will be recommending this book for years to come.

Andrea Clemens, author of Invisible Target: Breaking the Cycle of Educator Sexual Abuse

PTSD has produced hundreds of books and educational articles on the topic of overcoming trauma. However, there are only a handful that confront the monster from the trauma victim or survivor. Suzanne Jones has climbed out of hell to provide a road map for those still suffering. Joness voice in There Is Nothing to Fix is clear and concise and provides a deep insight into healing the scars of trauma. This book will change your life!

Ritchie Farrell, bestselling author, motivational speaker, and survivor

With There Is Nothing to Fix, we have been given a gift: healing power that is accessible to all. This is everything! The book is brave, wise, and commanding. I am grateful Suzanne was able to harness the power of her traumatic experiences for this masterpiece. The positive impact on survivors everywhere will be profound.

Maryrose Anthes, chief of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Unit, Suffolk County District Attorneys Office

A beautifully intentional narrative of how the wounds of trauma divert our development and create the vulnerabilities that so often lead to retraumatization, especially in intimate relationships where those wounds are so accessible. Through her own story, Suzanne carries us down a path of discovery in which we can find ourselves and the parallels to our own stories. There Is Nothing to Fix highlights in very tangible ways how to heal and find connection, clearly emphasizing what trauma-informed care systems everywhere are relearning... that it is only when we find safe, compassionate, and healing relationships does our recovery happen and lead us back to our authentic self.

Toni DeMarco, deputy director, Child and Youth Services, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, San Mateo County Health

There Is Nothing to Fix is an inspired, inspiring, and revolutionizing book that everyone should read. In a world where many people seem to have lost the compass, with repetitive patterns of destructive behaviors at the mercy of their unhealed wounded child craving desperately for love and connectedness, Sue Jones offers simple but radical and practical tools to help understand and grow in awareness through the body, which leads to healing, freedom, and happiness. Her story is a living testimony of TIMBos effectiveness to heal ourselves in a world that overmedicalizes trauma; its worth tapping into its potential.

Jean Bosco Niyonzima, MD, MA, global clinical governance adviser, Save the Children International; cofounder and executive director, Ubuntu Center for Peace

If, as Suzanne Jones writes in There Is Nothing to Fix, healing hurts, then what she has succeeded in offering readers here for their journeys is a way through that pain to true sources of healing. Convincingly and vividly illustrated via personal narratives (her own and those of friends and clients), Jones guides readers as one would a friendwith gentleness, care, love, but also unflinching truth to, as she writes, create space to heal from various forms of trauma (from the intensely personal to the generational) without judgment. This is a book to sit with, to hold in practice, to return to through different stages of processing, to share with others with whom we walk some part of the way. It will undoubtedly take its place as a new classic in how to engage somatic healing as an ongoing practice of wellness.

Myriam J. A. Chancy, Guggenheim Fellow and HBA chair in the Humanities, Scripps College; author of Searching for Safe Spaces and Framing Silence

It is absolutely incredible how Suzanne is able to explain and explore a journey of healing, and living a more fulfilling life, in a way that is raw and experienced within the reader. Every human being should read this book.