The Still Point and the Dance

What this book explains

The Still Point and the Dance is not about managing trauma.
It is about understanding why trauma persists – and what changes when it is finally allowed to resolve.

Drawing on more than forty years of clinical observation, John Boulderstone describes trauma as unfinished change. When an experience overwhelms the system, the natural process of change is interrupted. Symptoms are not malfunctions, but signals that something remains incomplete.

The book explains:

• Why symptoms are purposeful rather than random

• How trauma differs from ordinary stress – and why time alone does not heal it

• The difference between calming, coping, and genuine resolution

• What happens when a traumatic sequence is allowed to complete

• Why talking and regulation help people feel better, but often don’t finish the job

• How resolution leads to a still point – not numbness, but freedom to move on

Rather than introducing a new technique or theory, the book returns to a natural process most people already recognise from everyday stress, extended here to trauma that has become stuck.

This is not a self-help manual or a therapeutic programme.
It is a clear, grounded description of how human systems restore balance when change is allowed to complete.

For readers who sense that something in them is unfinished – and for clinicians who have seen improvement without resolution – this book offers a way of seeing trauma that is simpler, kinder, and quietly decisive.

Nothing added.
Nothing imposed.
Just the completion of what was interrupted.