Psychology Trauma

Trauma and its effects can feel like a never-ending storm, and there's no safe harbor in sight from the thoughts and emotions that toss and turn so violently and unpredictably in your head. But healing is possible. Your brain can actually rewire these thoughts and emotions. And you can direct that powerful healing process through journaling.

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach considers how characteristics such as suicidality, self-harm, persistent depression, and anxiety can have roots in behaviors and beliefs that helped patients survive their trauma. This book provides practitioners with case examples, practical tips, and techniques for applying this mindset directly to their most complex cases.

Healing Sex is the encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault- heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single - who want to delight in their own sexuality. While most books on the topic broach sexuality to reassure women that it's all right to say "no" to unwanted sex, Healing Sex encourages women to learn how to say "yes" - to their own desires and on their own terms.

Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and ’90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States’ “global war on terror,” PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict’s veterans. But the disorder’s reach extends far beyond the armed forces. In total, some twenty-seven million Americans are believed to be PTSD survivors. Yet to many of us, the disorder remains shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and shame.

Havening Techniques® students, practitioners, and trainers share how this remarkable neuroscience-based tool is helping their clients: dissolve toxic stress; boost positivity and resilience; recover faster from physical, emotional, and psychological challenges; quickly and permanently heal the emotional residue of trauma; and create lives of fulfillment and freedom. A quiet healing revolution is spreading slowly but surely across the planet. This revolution is taking place not through the latest discoveries in pharmacology, or through new insights in how to manage symptoms of emotional, ...

Considering addiction through a trauma-informed lens, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps offers an accessible, lyrical, and practical guide to Twelve-Step recovery that elevates a somatic approach rooted in healing, relationship, and Earth connection. Somatic and spiritual counselor, educator, and writer Nina Pick shows how addiction is rooted in survival strategies that protect us from overwhelmingly painful experiences.

‘Why am I like this?’ If you’ve asked this question to yourself quietly time and again… get ready to unpack and process like never before. Embark on a textured journey that will illuminate the hidden, unspoken and often unconscious experiences of the traumatized self. Chapter by chapter, you’ll make sense of your emotions, body, nervous system and relationships.

People today are struggling with an unprecedented rise in mental health concerns such as depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, behavioral addictions, suicide, and more. The greatest barriers to getting help are their shame, their self-loathing, and the belief that their situation is hopeless. Undaunted Hope destigmatizes these disorders and invites listeners to take the first step to help: asking for it.

Discover the Transformative Power of Somatic Psychology Are you ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing that integrates the wisdom of your body and mind? "The Luminous Prosperity Guide to Somatic Psychology" by Ammanuel Santa Anna offers a comprehensive exploration of somatic psychology, a field that bridges the gap between physical sensations and emotional experiences. This guide is your key to unlocking the profound connection between your body and mind, paving the way for genuine transformation and lasting well-being. Why Somatic Psychology? Somatic psychology ...

Built for Freedom is a no-holds-barred look at the root of all this suffering and the way I’ve found to leave it behind without having to turn your life into an unpaid career of therapy, recovery, and healing. The stories inside are an invitation to quit the fight and finally enjoy your birthright of freedom. Because you are already built for it.

In these testing times, many feel unmotivated and have lost their mojo. Some are listless, retreating inward after trauma or loneliness, some become addicted to screens or meaningless activities, and many have lost passion in the face of life's challenges. Through fascinating tales from the consulting room and daily life, this book provides a groundbreaking model to regenerate hope. Graham Music outlines exactly how to understand and heal from a wide range of emotionally blunted states such as dissociation, depression, or helplessness.

This is a collection of three powerful books that provides a comprehensive guide to healing from emotional abuse, trauma, and toxic relationships.

You have suffered through a traumatic experience. You have survived it. You are here to tell your tale. Where do you go from here? In this audiobook, we discuss where you are at with your current PTSD and complex PTSD symptoms, what you have gone through to get to this point, and how you can find your purpose after you have suffered from trauma in your life. The most important thing in your PTSD or complex PTSD is to find a purpose, so that you have something to move forward towards during your PTSD and complex PTSD recovery.

Let’s Take The Crap Out of Psychotherapy (Paperback – March 3, 2025) by Yildiz Sethi is a groundbreaking guide that challenges the current state of the mental health industry. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in psychotherapy, education, and counselling, Yildiz exposes the myths and misinformation that have kept people trapped in ineffective systems of care for decades. This powerful modern therapy book uncovers practical methods for healing, new Healing Methods the deep-rooted alliance between the mental health profession and the pharmaceutical industry—a partnership that often...

Uma conversa franca e transformadora sobre os efeitos do trauma, as possibilidades de tratamento e as chances reais de recuperação da saúde física e do bem-estar mental. Imagine uma doença que tem sintomas externos sutis mas pode dominar todo o seu corpo sem avisar, que pode ser transmitida entre pais e filhos e que pode durar a vida toda se não for tratada. De acordo com o psiquiatra Paul Conti, precisamos encarar o trauma como uma epidemia e entender que esta doença que pensávamos ser invencível pode ser tratada, curada e prevenida.

The Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory invites you on an enlightening journey deep into the intricate web of our neurophysiology, uncovering the remarkable power of the vagus nerve and the transformative potential of the Polyvagal Theory.

Joseph Campbell – the great 20th Century mythologist – revolutionized our understanding of story and psychology with his exposition of the Hero’s Journey; the path of change undertaken by normal individuals that ultimately transforms their understanding of life. However, the Hero’s Journey does not work equally well for all – especially those who have already had their lives and selves irrevocably altered by early childhood trauma.

“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger,” the adage—adapted from Nietzsche’s famous maxim—goes. But how much truth is there to that ubiquitous, inexhaustible saying? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced profoundly life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances and largely uncharted territory of what happens after one’s life is severed into a before and after. If what doesn’t kill us does not necessarily make us stronger, he asks, what does it make us?

Emotionally battered and neglected by her personality disordered parents—and manipulated by Mormon beliefs—16-year-old Sarah was convinced her boyfriend Michael would save her. When her parents discovered that they’d committed the sin of premarital sex, the aftermath left the teenagers irrevocably bonded.

The All In One Practical Guide To Starting Your Recovery From Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Codependency & Dark Psychology (Including How To Finally Move Forward With Your Life Once And For All!) Not only will you understand how narcissists work and what they do, but you can finally understand their manipulation tactics and what drives them, as well as what leads them to victims like yourself. (Empaths are their main forms of prey…)