Steve Haines

Trauma is Really Strange makes its argument in comic panels. Steve Haines wrote the text and Sophie Standing drew it, one of a graphic medicine set the pair have built together covering pain, anxiety and touch. The claim is that trauma settles in the body as an altered threat response rather than sitting in memory alone, and that breath, movement and attention to the nervous system can shift it. Haines is a chiropractor registered in the United Kingdom, has practised bodywork since 1998, and trained in shiatsu, yoga, biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Trauma Releasing Exercises. He has a plain commercial interest in the methods, teaching them internationally through Body College and the Body Intelligence programme he founded with Ged Sumner, his co-author on Cranial Intelligence. Anxiety is Really Strange was highly commended by the British Medical Association in 2018.