Diane Seamark

Gut Punch Is It Your Trauma or Intuition?

You already know something is off. You've known for a while.
This book teaches you how to trust that knowing — and protect yourself with it.

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Trauma-Informed Self-Defence · Nervous System Healing · Intuition Recovery · PEMS Hygiene 30+ Years of Practice

Does this sound familiar?

You've been told to trust your gut.
But what if your gut is lying to you?

You say yes when you mean no — and spend days resenting it.

You talk yourself out of your own discomfort because you can't tell if it's real.

Your body reacts before your brain catches up — and you don't know why.

You've been hypervigilant so long, you think that's just your personality.

You know something is wrong with a person — but you talk yourself into giving them the benefit of the doubt anyway.

You want to feel safe in your body. You're not sure you ever have.

This is not a personality flaw. This is a nervous system running on old survival code.

Gut Punch is the book that finally explains it — and gives you the tools to rewrite it.

Gut Punch by Diane Seamark
The Book

Healing and self-defence were never supposed to be separate.

Most self-defence training teaches you what to do after danger arrives. Most healing work never touches the instincts that keep you safe in the first place. Gut Punch bridges both.

Written by trauma-informed coach, yoga therapist, and jiu-jitsu practitioner Diane Seamark — after 30 years on both mats — this is the book that teaches you to hear your nervous system, trust your instincts, and build an unshakeable safety state of mind.

01

Learn to tell the difference between a trauma response and genuine intuition — and act accordingly.

02

Understand why you keep ending up in the same situations — and interrupt the pattern from the inside.

03

Build a daily PEMS hygiene system that protects you physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

04

Read a room. Recognize a predator. Set a boundary that holds. Feel safe in your own body.

"Your gut can tell the future — when you know how to listen to it." — Diane Seamark, Gut Punch
Diane Seamark
The Author

Diane Seamark

Founder, Sadohana Academy  ·  30+ Years on the Mat

Diane Seamark didn't write this book from a theory. She wrote it from a life — one that included trauma, recovery, 30 years of jiu-jitsu, yoga therapy, somatic work, and the slow, deliberate process of learning to trust herself again.

As the founder of Sadohana Academy, she has spent decades teaching that real self-defence begins on the inside — with your nervous system, your boundaries, your ability to read what's happening before it escalates.

She developed the PEMS Hygiene System to give people a daily, repeatable practice for healing and self-protection. Not a quick fix. A practice.

Yoga Therapy Trauma-Informed Coaching Somatic Experiencing Intelligent Jiu-Jitsu PEMS Hygiene System Sadohana Academy

What readers are saying

This remarkable book offers a unique and seamless blend of martial arts, yoga therapy, and spiritual practices, creating a holistic path to inner healing from trauma. It's not just a guide... it's an invitation to begin or deepen the journey toward wholeness. A must read for anyone seeking an integrative, empowering approach to healing.

— Janine ★★★★★ · Amazon Verified

Read Gut Punch if you are looking for a gentle, empowering and systematic guide to breaking toxic patterns and healing trauma. I couldn't put it down!!!

— Dena ★★★★★ · Amazon Verified

Diane takes a compassionate, trauma-informed approach in leading the reader from reaction to responding, guiding them through a holistic journey of trusting the signals their body is sending.

— M. Gibson ★★★★★ · Amazon Verified

Didn't know how much I needed this. Great read — I haven't seen anyone else approach trauma from this angle.

— Matt ★★★★★ · Amazon Verified
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