Childhood Trauma Recovery

She looked like the responsible one. Inside, she was silently falling apart. Some girls get to be children. Others are handed emotional responsibilities before they even know what peace feels like. If you grew up keeping the adults okay, swallowing your needs to avoid chaos, or being praised for “maturity” that was really just survival—you were never alone. And it was never your fault. This book is for the daughters who became emotional caregivers long before they were ready. With soft, piercing honesty, She Raised Herself in a House Full of Adults explores the wounds left by ...

Most of us are only starting to become aware of how our foundational years contribute to who we are today. Our childhood environment shapes the foundation for our sense of self, how we feel about the world, and how we relate to others. If we experienced trauma or dysfunction along the way, it likely disrupted the pathways to these fundamental structures. Understanding our trauma is not about blame, but about understanding, learning, and growing. In most cases, our caregivers did the best they could with the tools they had, often while dealing with external or internal stressors as well.

A down to earth and easy to understand guide for your healing. Benefit from the authors extensive experience with many clients over many years. This book is an engaging and informative way to help you repair your attachment and nervous system after trauma, while remaining open to spiritual dimensions of life. “Get Over Trauma, Regenerate Your Life” provides a roadmap for healing and building resilience, drawing on the research and experience. What sets this book apart is the author's unique perspective and engaging narrative, which weaves their personal journey of healing throughout the...

Homesteading in the Calm Eye of the Storm is a companion book to my self-help book: COMPLEX PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. Homesteading is also a memoir of my journey of recovering from C-PTSD. Written in a more playful, easier to read style than my other books, it is much less dense and relatively free of psychological jargon. Several previewers have described it as rich, poignant, funny and full of self-disclosive anecdotes that are sure to help other survivors in their recovery. "Homesteading" has two parts. In Part I, I escape from my dysfunctional family and backpack around the ...

Are your emotions controlling your life instead of enriching it? If you've been told to "just feel your feelings" but find that your emotions are overwhelming, unpredictable, and destructive, this book is for you. When you have Complex PTSD from childhood trauma, the problem isn't being disconnected from your emotions—it's being overwhelmed by them. "Beyond Feeling" offers a revolutionary approach to emotional healing that goes beyond traditional advice. What You'll Discover: Why "feeling your feelings" can actually make CPTSD symptoms worse The real reason your emotions feel like a ...

Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of pain, replaying past trauma that you can’t escape? Research shows that more than 85% of individuals with Complex PTSD experience profound recovery after targeted trauma treatment. But what if you could start your recovery right now, today, without waiting for a therapist to do it all for you? Imagine waking up each day without the weight of anxiety, flashbacks, and emotional numbness.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is debilitating. Life seems to be on hold. Accomplishing the smallest of tasks takes all the stamina you can muster. Without treatment the symptoms get worst. Many suffer in silence. They simply don't have the energy or will power to leave the house and face the public to attend therapy appointments for help with their PTSD. That is where books come in handy. You can work on your healing in the privacy of your own home. I've written this book to help you on your road to recovery.

Are childhood wounds still shaping your life today? Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues offers a compassionate, clinically grounded path to healing the pain of emotional neglect, trauma, and insecure attachment. Abandonment wounds in childhood can leave invisible scars that impact your adult relationships, self-worth, and emotional resilience. Whether you experienced physical neglect, emotional abuse, or simply a lack of secure attachment, these early disruptions often resurface in anxiety, addiction, people-pleasing, codependency, or patterns of self-sabotage. In Thawing Childhood ...

Childhood trauma, mental illness, addiction, and incarceration are far too common in the US today. Recovery from even one of these issues is challenging, yet many people live with the stark reality of more than one of these circumstances every day. Our systems of care offer some help, but sometimes even the best programs don't yield lasting results. What does a person do when medication, therapy, drug treatment, and support groups are ultimately ineffective for them?

“An often poignant and resonant rumination on the enduring effects of abuse and what it takes to overcome, survive, live, and love again.” —Kirkus Reviews Grandson of a Ghost explores how a family’s unspoken, festering grief impacted a boy born 25 years after the suicide of his grandfather. It follows the struggle of Scott as he grows up but fails to see how abuse from his mother clouded his perception of the world, and fueled his self-destructive behavior as an adult. Following a tumultuous childhood, Scott moves from northern New England — driven by his demons — to New York in...

Do you feel like you're living a smaller life than you deserve? If you grew up with criticism, trauma, or neglect, you may have learned to survive by making yourself invisible. Don't challenge anyone. Don't try too hard. Don't attract attention. Stay off the radar, and you'll be safe. But what protected you then now imprisons you. This survival strategy becomes self-suppression—and it's keeping you stuck. In "Breaking Free," you'll discover how childhood coping mechanisms transform into adult patterns that limit your relationships, career, health, and happiness. More importantly, you'll ...

This guide by Dr. Lawrence L James, an expert in alcoholism and trauma, offers not just knowledge but a shared understanding of the lifelong impact of adverse childhood experiences. Drawing from personal and professional experiences, Dr. James delves into the heart of the emotional and psychological turmoil faced by adult children of alcoholics.

Chappale Burton, author and survivor of deep childhood trauma, shares his mental struggles and the tools and techniques he used to heal after being abducted, raped at gunpoint and then witnessing the tragic murder of his mother and stepfather at age 8. Unlike other books written by clinicians and therapist, this book offers firsthand strategies and a glimpse into the mind of someone who has experienced several horrific events and emerged stronger.

Wenn Sie sich schon immer von den anhaltenden Auswirkungen eines Kindheitstraumas heilen wollten, aber mit ungelöstem emotionalem Schmerz kämpfen, dann lesen Sie weiter... Haben Sie es satt, von der Vergangenheit heimgesucht zu werden? Haben Sie schon unzählige andere Lösungen ausprobiert, aber nichts scheint für eine langfristige Heilung zu funktionieren? Möchten Sie sich endlich von Ihrem Schmerz verabschieden und etwas entdecken, das Ihnen wirklich hilft?

Complex PTSD Recovery: Navigating the Path to Healing Childhood Trauma is for anyone who wants to restart the process of living in the present by building a personal toolkit of processes that allow them to work through the past. It’s about learning to live with what you have gone through, cope with it, reframe it, and ultimately manage it in the face of adversity.

Verás, sanar del trauma infantil no tiene que ser complicado. Incluso si has intentado terapia, libros de autoayuda u otros métodos sin éxito. La verdad es que es mucho más simple de lo que piensas. La entusiasta del trauma y autora, Callie Parker, te proporciona un plan paso a paso para la sanación emocional sin retraumatizarte.

About The Novel Nothing is as it seems when Tom hires a mysterious woman to work at his shop. After he loses contact with her, their brief bond eventually leads him to set out with his detective brother to find her… Take Me To Nirvana is a beautifully crafted novel that celebrates hope and courage. It is a raw, powerful story that follows the sudden disappearance of Amber, a young woman struggling to reconcile a haunting past with her new chance at a normal life. The book delves deep into her troubled mind, and the strange, sometimes gruesome challenges she faces in finding closure. A ...

If you were raised by emotionally immature parents, you know that unpacking your childhood isn’t easy. You were made to feel like your feelings didn’t matter, while your parent or parents’ feelings were of paramount importance. You may have been neglected emotionally, gaslit, or had your boundaries crossed time and time again. In Emotionally Immature Parents: A Recovery Workbook for Adult Children, you’ll work through all of these experiences and more as you unpack your childhood, and practice creating boundaries with your parents in the present day.

For those of you done with suffering and ready to start healing and creating a life you love, Trauma Release Formula was written for you. It will guide you to release trauma, inner stress, and stuck painful emotional energy in your body through a step-by-step process that involves a deep and powerfully effective form of breathwork, emotionally expressive dance, and cutting-edge methods of moving that trapped energy out of your body’s cellular memory and transforming subconscious limiting thought patterns, beliefs and habitual behaviors to those that serve your highest potential and most ...

Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland have each suffered significant, debilitating brain injury - one through rare disease and the medical interventions that followed, the other through deep childhood trauma. In this brave and honest book, Jamila and Rosie share their parallel stories of becoming and being sick, alongside the experience and advice of those who've been there before. They reveal that their 'broken brains' have more in common than they initially realised, proving how mental and physical health are inextricably entwined.