Description: Make vital shifts in how you use your energy―and how you rest―by understanding your nervous system through gentle guidance and practices. Protect Your Energy offers reflections to help us understand both where we are and where we want to go, what drains our energy, how to set and hold supportive boundaries, and much more.
Brief description: Zahabiyah (Zabie) A. Yamasaki, MEd, RYT, is an award-winning trauma-informed educator, yoga trainer, and sought-after consultant and speaker, as well as the founder of Transcending Trauma through Yoga. Her work has been featured on CNN, NBC, and more. Her yoga as healing program is implemented at several universities including the University of California (UC) system, USC, Stanford, Yale, University of Notre Dame, and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Trauma-Informed Yoga Affirmation Card Deck and flip chart, and two children's books.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a balm to my nervous system. Zabie Yamasaki does so much more than remind us to rest--she helps us lay the groundwork for a life that feels nourishing and supportive, even in challenging times."--Alex Elle, author of After the Rain and How We Heal
"In this beautiful ode to lightening our loads, Zabie Yamasaki shows us the true strength in living more softly. With nervous-system informed practices, these teachings don't just shape our calendars but help our bodies and minds find more ease in the busyness of life. A must-read for these times."--Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space "Protect Your Energy is a balm for our times. With tenderness and clarity, Zabie offers not just permission but practical tools to reclaim our wholeness in a world that pulls us away from ourselves. Through lived wisdom, embodied science, and soulful practice, she guides us home to our bodies and reminds us that rest, boundaries, and self-tending are acts of liberation. This book is an invitation to soften, to breathe, and to remember that everything we need is already within us."--Devi Brown, wellbeing educator, host of Deeply Well, author of Living in Wisdom "Protect Your Energy feels like sitting with a trusted friend, reminding you to slow down, breathe, and honor the sacred within you. A timely guide for our times."--Lalah Delia, author of Vibrate Higher Daily "Protect Your Energy gently guides readers through deeply nourishing practices, reflections, and teachings that will liberate the heart, mind, body, and spirit of all who read it. Zabie's uniquely compassionate, wise, and tender words are like medicine in this fast, often overwhelming world; this book offers a source of heartful support, expansive expertise, and embodied care for all who are longing for more ease, peace, and presence. What a true gift."--Lisa Olivera, LMFT, author of Already Enough and When the Ache Remains "Zabie Yamasaki has curated a permission slip in book form. These words are a necessary soft landing for the overachievers, readers of the room who often confuse the emotions and fears of others as their own. This book could not have come at a better time for those of us who are overwhelmed, overstimulated and looking to invite more ease into their lives, may this book be your guide."--Arielle Estoria, poet, actor, speaker, author of The Unfolding "Zabie's work is transcendent and vital. Her book is not just an incredible guide to calm, but it's also a rallying cry not to do more, but to do less. Zabie's voice is a breath of fresh air!" --Jamie Varon, author of Radically Content "With wisdom, clarity, and tenderness, Zahabiyah Yamasaki shares the healing gift of authentic guidance for our overscheduled, overstimulated, and often disconnected lives. If you are feeling exhausted, stressed, numb, or overwhelmed, this book offers a clear and loving perspective on how to nourish and care for yourself with sustainable and accessible practices. Couched in an understanding and deep respect for each individual's nervous system, this transformative book invites readers to feel into what is best for them personally. Throughout the book, Yamasaki gently invites readers to meet themselves where they are and to embrace themselves with acceptance, love, and care. I highly recommend this book--a much-needed refuge for our times."--Wendy O'Leary, public speaker, co-author of Growing Self-Compassionate Children, author of It's OK "What compassionate wisdom for somatic resilience! With her background as a trauma-informed yoga educator, Zabie brings undeniable authority and also unwavering empathy. The book is a collection of approachable, body-centered practices paired with supremely kind language. You come away feeling both seen and empowered. Zabie helps us out with this somatic toolkit based in healing for real life."--Susanna Barkataki, author of Ignite Your Yoga and Embrace Yoga's Roots "As a trauma therapist, I've read countless resources on trauma-informed care, but this one truly resonates. In a world that constantly pulls us away from our center, Zabie's words offer a sacred and tender landing space for our nervous system. With grace and depth, she weaves her lived experience, clinical wisdom, and an extraordinary gift for language that both holds and heals. This resource is a gift, full of practical yet powerful practices to navigate protecting your precious energy. An essential companion for both personal reflection and professional practice."--Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW, RYT, EMDR consultant, author of EMDR Workbook for Kids "Reading Protect Your Energy feels like being wrapped in a warm, weighted blanket. On every page, Zabie's soothing voice offers wisdom and compassion. She seamlessly weaves together her expertise of burnout and nervous system repair, along with the depth of her own lived experience. Zabie's eloquent words, along with the poignant quotes she curates, will stay with you long after you finish her book."--Molly Nourmand, LMFT, founder and clinical director of Life After Birth(R) "As a therapist, I've read countless books that promise restoration but few that deliver it the way Protect Your Energy does. Zabie Yamasaki writes with the rare combination of clinical wisdom, lived experience, and deep humanity. Every page is infused with her heart-centered approach--an invitation not only to soothe the individual nervous system but to imagine what collective, systemic healing could look like if rest and compassion were at its core. This isn't a book about quick fixes or self-optimization. It's a reclamation. It is remembering that tending to our own energy is an act of resistance in a culture that profits from our exhaustion. Zabie's voice is both balm and blueprint: gentle, grounded, and profoundly transformative. Protect Your Energy will become a companion for anyone who has ever over-given, over-functioned, or quietly burned out while caring for others. I'll be recommending it to my clients, my colleagues, and every healer I know. Protect Your Energy is a meditation in tending to ourselves in a world that encourages and rewards functioning from a place of over-productivity. This book changed my life." -- Sahar Martinez, Psy.D, LMFT, PMH-C, founder, The Process Wellness Collective "Protect Your Energy is the book I have been longing for--for myself and for those I love--as we try not just to survive but truly thrive amidst the heartbreaks of our world. It invites us into a slower, softer, and simpler way of being so we can listen to our deepest needs and honor them without apology. Zabie helps us to know that relief is possible and living with ease is within our power." -- Eileen S. Rosete, author of To Tend and To Hold