Relationship Trauma

The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm. You'll begin by getting to know your nervous system, including an exploration of polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve. You'll also learn soothing, body-based practices to help you rewire your nervous response, including rhythmic movements (EMDR and tapping), conscious breathing, mindful movement, and more.

Are you caught in the grip of a relationship that feels impossible to leave, no matter how much it hurts? This book is your guide to understanding the invisible chains that keep people tied to toxic dynamics, and, more importantly, how to break free. Whether it’s with a partner, a friend, or a family member, toxic relationships can erode self-worth and leave you questioning your reality. In this book, you’ll find a compassionate yet empowering approach to identifying harmful patterns, making sense of your emotions, and rebuilding the confidence you need to reclaim your life.

Intergenerational trauma is a deeply ingrained cycle, affecting countless individuals seeking to break free and establish healthier future paths for themselves and their families. But you can break this cycle and move toward healing with the help of this book.

Realer than the most real conversation you’ve ever heard on the topic, Michael Todd’s honest, heartfelt, and powerful teaching on relationships has already impacted millions of people in all seasons of life around the world. Now, in Relationship Goals, Michael tells his own story of heartache and healing, unpacks explosive truths from God’s word, and tells it to you straight to help you win at relationships in every part of your life.

Do you feel insecure, jealous, or anxious in your relationships? Do you have a deep fear that people will abandon you? Have you stayed in a toxic situation because you didn't believe you deserved better? If so, you may have an anxious attachment style—a way of coping with difficult situations or emotions that is often rooted in an adverse childhood experience (ACE), such as neglect or abuse. Fortunately, there are ways to heal this anxious attachment, and even transform it into an earned secure attachment.

In Unraveling Your Relationship with Money, renowned financial expert and Certified Trauma of Money Specialist Shannah Game delivers an inspiring, informative, and at times cathartic guide to improve your behavioral finance skills, gently resolving deep-rooted trauma related to emotions like shame, fear, and panic surrounding money, and finally start reaching your financial goals.

You loved them deeply. You waited. You stayed. But they didn’t even try. This book is for the quiet hearts — the ones who kept giving, even when love wasn’t returned. It’s for the ones who confused distance with mystery, silence with depth, and absence with love. I Loved You More, But You Didn’t Even Try is not just a breakup book. It’s a journey back to yourself. Through raw reflections and healing prose, Sienna Thorne walks with you through the pain of one-sided love — and shows you how to stop begging for effort, start reclaiming your worth, and finally love yourself the ...

Introducing your ultimate guide to unlocking the power of gratitude and forgiveness! The Gratitude-Forgiveness Connection is an essential e-book for anyone seeking to cultivate a greater sense of well-being, connection, and joy in their life. This e-book offers a comprehensive exploration of the science of gratitude and forgiveness. Drawing on the latest research and practical tools, this book provides an in-depth understanding of how these two powerful practices can transform your life. From overcoming resentment and building empathy to finding forgiveness in challenging relationships, ...

Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed blending your households, or cleaning out your parents' property after they've moved into assisted living or passed away. Decluttering guru Peter Walsh knows the difficulty of downsizing firsthand.

Toxic relationships exert a power over us like few things in life can, but that doesn’t mean you have to settle for them. In fact, by simply deciding you want more from life, you can start to reclaim your worth and take action. The problem is that this is so much easier said than done. If only you could stumble across a step-by-step guide that would show you how to reclaim your life and rebuild from the ground up.

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes. What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be.

When a relationship with a narcissist ends, the caretaking partner is often left confused, deeply hurt, and often still emotionally connected, while the narcissist seems to easily move on to the next relationship. Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship offers guidance about what to expect as the relationship unravels and how to cope with the fallout. It also helps the reader learn to truly disengage and move through the grief process.

If you find yourself struggling to let go after a relationship ends, or you keep hitting the same wall in dating and relationships with emotionally unavailable people, this is not a sign that you are broken. It is a sign that somewhere along the way, you learned to sacrifice yourself in order to be loved. In Becoming the One, spiritual leader and visionary founder of the Rising Woman community Sheleana Aiyana offers a road map for transforming your relationship patterns to end the cycle of self-abandonment and move into the light of self-discovery.

Betrayal has many faces, including anger, abuse, deceit, and infidelity. These feel like betrayal because they violate the implicit promise of emotional bonds, that your loved one will care about your well-being and never intentionally hurt you. If you've recently left a relationship where you felt betrayed by your partner, you may have difficulty moving on. In fact, it can seem impossible to view the world without the shadow of past betrayal hovering over you. As a result, you may struggle to create meaning in your life and to build new, loving relationships.

What happens when your mother’s pain becomes the blueprint for your identity? You learned to smile through guilt. You apologized before you knew what you did wrong. You became the “good daughter” by becoming invisible. When Her Pain Became My Personality is a raw and healing journey for women raised by emotionally wounded mothers. In these pages, you’ll find your story in every paragraph—the unspoken sacrifices, the buried anger, the silent hopes for love that never felt safe. This book isn’t about blaming. It’s about finally seeing the wound for what it is—and choosing not ...

Therapist and meditation teacher Ralph De La Rosa places the innovative, evidence-based model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the context of Buddhist meditation to show that the process of healing trauma can lead you to your deepest spiritual nature. This book offers clear conceptual frameworks to understand trauma, post-traumatic growth, and the close relationship between healing trauma and spirituality. The many journal prompts, experiential practices, and guided meditations will teach you how to

Feeling stuck, repeating emotional patterns, or struggling with relationships? What if healing means embracing parts of yourself you've been taught to suppress? Transformative Shadow Work is your all-in-one guide, workbook, and journal to help you integrate your hidden self, break free from triggers, and embrace self-acceptance.

This book is a bible for effectively communicating with anyone, from a romantic partner you’ve only just started dating to your spouse, to accomplish optimal results in any relationship. You’ve often looked at couples and wondered what makes their bond so solid. Chances are it is related to communication.

Research shows that attachment patterns—our patterns of relating to others, which develop in early childhood—affect far more aspects of our lives than was previously thought. Given how crucial these patterns are to how every patient relates to the world and to their own selves, how can therapists harness attachment to provide more effective therapy? Using accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy AEDP® theory and methodology as a foundation, the authors present an innovative approach that tailors treatment to attachment patterns.

Your past doesn't define you — carve a path toward self-awareness and self-discovery with this transformative guidebook on recovering from unresolved childhood trauma. Were you on the receiving end of hurtful events in the past and now feel unable to escape the painful effects of trauma constantly, every day of your life, no matter what you try? Are you tired of the internal battle between your past and your current self — the ones that exhaust and drain the life out of you just so you can survive and make it through another day? You're not alone in this struggle. Millions of adults ...