Title
A Field Manual to Healing Trauma
Subtitle
Using Psychedelics, Neurofeedback, and Somatic Therapy
Author
Neo Courtyard (pen name)
Publisher
Atmosphere Press
Publication date
To be confirmed
ISBN
To be confirmed
Price
$24.99
Format
Paperback and ebook
Pages
To be confirmed
Category
Self-Help / PTSD / Trauma
Companion app
Free with every copy. Web application. No download required.
MAPS donation
20% of proceeds donated to MAPS to fund psychedelic therapy research
For readers
The blueprint that lets you orchestrate your own healing across therapies, at your own pace.
For therapists
A structured blueprint your clients use to orchestrate their healing between sessions.
For the market
The operating system for personal trauma healing: a blueprint to orchestrate therapies with a workbook, AI companion, and multi-modality tracking.
Tagline
You do not need permission to heal. You need a plan.
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Between understanding trauma and healing from it, there is a gap. A Field Manual to Healing Trauma offers a practical guide to guide your recovery, with 12 exercises, real stories of psychedelic therapy, neurofeedback, and somatic work, plus a free AI companion app. Based on a personal journey, it’s the system you’ve been searching for.
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Most trauma books explain what happened to you. This one shows you what to do about it. A Field Manual to Healing Trauma is a guide for taking charge of your own healing process. Neo Courtyard blends personal memoir with 12 structured exercises inspired by cognitive behavioural therapy, Internal Family Systems, and attachment theory. The book also shares honest, firsthand stories of psychedelic-assisted therapy, neurofeedback, and somatic processing, including what research supports and where it falls short. Whether you’re working with a therapist or starting on your own, this manual offers a system to guide your healing across different therapies, at your own pace. Every copy comes with a free AI companion app that includes a personal trauma profile assessment.
Neo Courtyard is the pen name of a trauma survivor who spent years navigating psychedelic-assisted therapy, neurofeedback, and somatic processing to heal from complex childhood trauma. A Field Manual to Healing Trauma is the book he wished had existed when he started. He lives in Europe.
Neo Courtyard is the pseudonym of a first-generation professional who grew up dealing with the heavy weight of childhood trauma. After traditional therapy offered limited progress, he embarked on a deep personal healing journey that combined psychedelic-assisted therapy, neurofeedback, somatic work, and structured psychological practices. A Field Manual to Healing Trauma captures that experience in a practical program others can follow. The therapy methods in the book have been reviewed by licensed professionals, and a psychiatrist specialising in trauma wrote the foreword. Neo lives in Europe and works in the corporate world.
Note: Pen name note: Neo Courtyard is a pen name to protect the privacy of family members described in the memoir. The author is happy to discuss this openly on air. It is part of the story, not a barrier to it
1
Why understanding your trauma is not the same as healing it. The gap between knowing and changing, and what actually fills it.
2
The concept of doctrine: the unspoken rules installed in childhood that still run adult behaviour decades later, and how contra-doctrine breaks them.
3
How to orchestrate your healing across multiple therapies rather than being a passive patient in siloed treatments.
4
What actually happened during MDMA-assisted therapy. A firsthand, honest, first-person account with no hype and no agenda.
5
Why most self-help books explain the problem but do not give you a plan. What a structured healing blueprint looks like in practice.
6
The two-brain problem: why repeating positive affirmations deepens cognitive dissonance for trauma survivors rather than resolving it, and what works instead.
7
Neurofeedback for trauma: what it is, what it does, and what it cannot do on its own.
8
The six inner needs that drive most adult behaviour, and how identifying yours changes what you do next.
1
You wrote this book under a pen name. Can you tell us why, and what that decision represents?
2
You describe a gap between understanding trauma and healing from it. What does that gap look like in someone's daily life?
3
What is doctrine, and how does it differ from the kind of limiting beliefs that self-help books usually talk about?
4
You tried MDMA and Ayahuasca without a professional present before moving to supervised psilocybin therapy. What happened, and what would you tell someone who is considering a similar path?
5
The book says that repeating positive affirmations can actually make things worse for trauma survivors. That is a provocative claim. Walk us through the neuroscience.
6
How does the companion app work, and what does it give someone that the book alone cannot?
7
You finished your healing journey in 14 months. What does finished mean? How did you know?
8
What is the single thing you wish someone had told you at the beginning of your journey?
9
Who is this book for, and who is it not for?
10
You donate 30% of proceeds to MAPS. Why that organisation, and why that percentage?
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk. The defining Layer 1 book. The Field Manual is Layer 1.5: where van der Kolk readers go when they want to know what to do next.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Pete Walker. Overlapping audience. More clinical in voice. The Field Manual is more experiential and includes modalities Walker does not cover.
It Didn't Start with You
Bessel van der Kolk. The defining Layer 1 book. The Field Manual is Layer 1.5: where van der Kolk readers go when they want to know what to do next.
How to Do the Work
Dr. Nicole LePera. Large Instagram-driven audience. The Field Manual goes deeper on trauma and includes psychedelics, which LePera does not.
Press contact
All media enquiries: neo@neocourtyard.com
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