Relationship Trauma

Acute trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child, while typically producing long-term and harmful generational consequences on loved ones and other family members. Claudia Black presents a portrait of a broken family system, exploring how addiction and trauma develop in families, their damaging repetition, and offers a roadmap for healing.

In this powerful book, Clarke draws on her professional expertise and her lived experience as a Black woman to share mindfulness exercises, breathwork practices, and meditative tools centered on healing from and surviving racial trauma. Filled with deeply personal stories highlighting the many systemic challenges that people of color face, this mixture of guide and memoir offers thirty-three practical techniques based on the emotions elicited from these experiences.

El trauma siempre ha sido parte de la experiencia humana, y los eventos traumáticos —tanto físicos como emocionales— pueden trastornar todo nuestro ser y cambiarnos para siempre. Aunque sabemos más que hace diez años acerca de los efectos neurológicos y físicos a largo plazo que deja el trauma, pocos se dan cuenta de que la experiencia del trauma no tiene que condenarlos a una vida de sufrimiento y duelo.

This 21-day workbook offers a journey into the depths of your subconscious. You’ll confront and heal the parts of yourself that keep you stuck, using proven tools to release repressed emotions, break self-sabotaging patterns, and awaken your true potential.

Are you tired of people pooping on you? Have others hurt you so much you can't seem to live your life without bitterness? In this easy-to-read guide, discover how to move on after relational heartache. It is possible to find joy even after betrayal (even by people in the church). In What to Do After People Poop on You, discover a sane, biblical way to move on.

As a Black woman, Jasmine Marie knows the impact that intergenerational trauma and systemic racism have had—and continue to have—on her community. Those experiences, along with her own journey through chronic stress, are why she created black girls breathing®, a movement dedicated to helping Black women understand the power of the mind‑body connection and its impact on their holistic health, one breath at a time. In Black Girls Breathing, Jasmine Marie offers you the power of breathwork, and the revolutionary nature of slowing down and turning inward.

Feeling anxious and disconnected are signs of a nervous system that's out of balance. Something as small as a curt message from our boss can be perceived by our bodies as a threat to life. By understanding our physiological stress response, we can override and heal our emotional response, and fix the behaviours sabotaging our health and happiness. In The Vagus Nerve Reset, Anna Ferguson offers somatic therapies alongside the science of Polyvagal Theory, to help us train our nervous system to stop overreacting, and start responding more calmly to day-to-day stressors and heal past experiences.

Do you struggle with feelings of guilt? Do you often find yourself dwelling on past mistakes and feeling stuck in a cycle of self-blame? It's time to break free from the weight of guilt and start living a more mindful, present life. This 30-day mindfulness workbook is designed to help you identify the root causes of your guilt, work through them with compassion and self-forgiveness, and develop healthier habits and perspectives for moving forward. Over the course of 30 days, you'll be guided through daily mindfulness exercises, reflective writing prompts, and practical tools for managing ...

Turn In-Law Anxiety into Genuine Connection—For the Sake of Your Family’s Future You raised your child with love, but now they’ve joined another family. What happens next? Will your relationship with their in-laws feel natural—or like an ongoing, silent negotiation? For many parents and grandparents, introducing new in-laws brings unspoken expectations, cultural clashes, and a quiet fear of being sidelined. Misunderstandings grow, family gatherings feel forced, and your child feels caught in the middle. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Art of Co-Parents-In-Law Harmony ...

Through the Inner Child Recovery Workbook, you'll embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing. You'll learn to meet your inner child with tender compassion, release the burdens of your past, and reclaim your birthright of wholeness and joy. No matter what challenges you've faced, this life-changing workbook will show you that you have the power within you to alchemize your wounds into wisdom and your struggles into strength.

Rooted in her experiences growing up in an evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s You Are Your Own offers an overview of evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt those leaving the evangelical faith and offers an approach to help them recover healthy self-worth and resilience.

The Jesus Response is a unique and inspiring work of fiction that offers readers a powerful glimpse into the mind and heart of Jesus as he reaches out to people facing a wide range of challenges in their lives. Written in the form of personal messages from Jesus to a diverse cast of characters, this book is sure to touch the hearts of readers of all backgrounds and faiths. As you read each of these messages, you will be struck by the wisdom, compassion, and insight that Jesus brings to every situation. Whether you are struggling with grief, fear, doubt, or any other challenge, you will find...

When we are young, we rely on our parents to parent us. When we are older, we have childhood trauma to heal and need to continue parenting ourselves. We meet our existential needs on three levels: resourcefulness and self-reliance to avoid over-dependency on others, familiar resources, as well as resources beyond our familiar community. This book will introduce you to how you meet your 24 unmet needs, guide you to help you reparent yourself, and love yourself. You will get guidance to minimise pressure on your relationships. Additionally, it contains the self-management SIFTSEM tool that ...

Toxic Relationships from A to Z The book "Toxic Relationships from A to Z" by Dr. Dirk Stemper is a warmhearted guide for anyone who wants to break out of unhealthy patterns. It sheds light on why we get into toxic relationships, what the consequences are, and what patterns are causative. Readers learn how to break free by changing their life scripts and challenging their core beliefs. Highlights of the book: Forms, causes, and ways out of toxic relationships Insights into the dynamics of toxic couple relationships, families, friendships, work, and online relationships Development of a new ...

Understanding how our brains and bodies actually work is a powerful tool in mitigating the anxiety generated by unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms that we all may experience from time to time. Here, Robert Scaer unravels the complexities of the brain-body connection, equipping all those who are in distress with a plausible explanation for how they feel.

A powerful and deeply personal memoir, Struemph draws on her own stories of overcoming life’s small obstacles to developing the tenacity and resiliency to conquer much larger ones. With a keen eye, Struemph untangles how the subtle nuances of common behaviors and actions can set us up to become a predator’s target. She knows first-hand the overwhelming effects of sexual trauma and the unique obstacles that exist within the military as one tries to seek justice, support, and a way forward. Determined to find her own path to healing, Struemph now wants to share her journey with others.

We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura Bates, author of Girl Up), Soraya Chemaly challenges us to adapt our thinking about how we survive in a world of sustained, overlapping crises. It is interdependence and nurturing relationships that truly sustain us, she argues. Based on comprehensive research and eye-opening examples from real-life, The Resilience Myth offers alternative visions of relational hardiness by emphasizing care for others and our environments above all.

You're a fan of the 1970s music scene and love a juicy memoir. Under My Skin is a #1 BESTSELLER in 5 categories. Author Elise Krentzel took charge of the tumultuous 1970s by making a name for herself as a rock journalist when still a teenager. As a kid, her parents encouraged her to sing, play music, and write, but she wasn’t allowed to be “herself.” Alienated, she hid her heart and learned to become a stranger in her skin as the torment of early childhood taught her to mistrust everyone, especially herself. As an adolescent traveling in Europe, she came to realize there was more to ...

He's been surviving, barely. She's on the run, and has been through something horrible, too. It's a very large country to drive across, they've got nothing but time. Can they help each other? Will they let go? Can they heal the past?

Anxiety can escalate to another level. When a person is exposed to traumatic or negative events where they feel little or no control in the outcome, the anxiety can turn into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you have enough recurring events in your life that are traumatic, you may even be diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).