Trauma Women

After witnessing the brutal, fatal stabbing of her mother and surviving being stabbed herself during the same attack at the age of nine, a young African-American woman’s struggle to live continues. Diamond shares the mental, physical, and emotional effects she has suffered and the challenges she has faced, including alcohol abuse, emotional detachment, suicidal thoughts and panic attacks stemming from post-traumatic stress disorders.

In this 4th Anniversary Edition of I’m Divorced Now, Umm Zakiyyah offers what she calls “a positive reframe of life and soul” as she looks at the dissolution of her marriage four years ago through the lens of embracing soul-nourishing solitude instead of heartbreak and healing. With an added Prologue and Epilogue to capture this new positive outlook on her life today, we are blessed to see the beginning of her healing journey as laying the path to a life of gratitude and joy. On August 30, 2020, internationally acclaimed author and speaker, Umm Zakiyyah, parted from her second soul ...

One Reason to Live embodies a visceral experience of living with psychiatric injury combined with the power of radical acceptance, sweetened by the healing quality of animal companionship and the joy of embracing self-love.

Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Superwoman Survival Stories, where we share our journeys to wholeness and tell our stories of trauma to triumph during the Covid pandemic and beyond.

Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy is still reeling from all that she's lost. Desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have—her husband, Desmond, and her eighteen-year-old son, Eddie—she's determined to lay her grief to rest by the twentieth anniversary of her daughter’s death.

Courage Under Siege: From Trauma to Transformation is a collection of powerful, real-life stories about facing tough times and finding strength in the process. This book is filled with tales from women who have faced big challenges, whether it’s dealing with painful losses, family struggles, feeling ignored, or going through emotional or physical hurt. These women have faced moments when life seemed too hard, yet each one found a way to keep going and grow through it.

So says Mona Dean—playwright, actress and daughter to a man famous for one great novel, and in fruitless pursuit of the next, whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half-sister, their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona's childhood, setting her in opposition to a cold, cruel stepmother who, though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken. Then, just as Mona is settling into her life as an adult and fledgling artist, he begins a new affair and takes her into his confidence.

Fragments of A Half-Life is a rare collection of intimate writings from award-winning poet and philosopher Emily Maroutian. This fragmented anthology diverges from her familiar uplifting tone, allowing the reader to journey into the mind of the poet as she comes to terms with past trauma, uncomfortable truths, and the pain of life after recovery. Written over the span of ten years, this collection features passages and poetry from old journals that were later discarded. The reflective accounts serve as candid observations and confessions about the difficulty of healing, including variants ...

This is a deeply personal story of a sister who lost her brother to a fentanyl overdose. Tiff Carson found her brother Cory’s struggle with addiction frustrating and impossible to understand until he chose to use his voice.

Her mother was raped. This is how Melanie was born. For years, the sight of Melanie's face reminded her mother of the sexual assault, so Melanie herself was verbally and physically abused through childhood. But Melanie's obligation was to love and honor her mother, she told herself. This is what Melanie believed as a Christian, and it's what she believed even more so after converting to Islam. In the Qur'an, God commanded, "Reverence the wombs that bore you." But what if those wombs broke you, and incited deep emotional trauma? What then? In this groundbreaking book about healing from ...

Fans of Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown will enjoy the heart wrenching story of a woman embracing a past trauma in the face of danger in award-winning author Quinn Avery’s newest standalone, In Her Father's Shadow. Sienna Rivers’s aspirations for a normal childhood came crashing down the night they discovered her father was a serial killer. Once her mother’s illusion of a perfect family is destroyed, Sienna is sent to live with the only other “family” she knows. After a lifetime of living with her mother’s perfection and rules, Sienna (now going by “Rowan”) struggles to find a...

Are you tired of feeling overcommitted, overwhelmed, and overlooked? Do you find yourself saying “yes” when you’re screaming “no” inside? Boundaries That Stick is your no-nonsense guide to setting clear, confident, and lasting boundaries in every area of your life. Written especially for women who struggle with people-pleasing, burnout, and emotional guilt, this empowering guide will teach you how to honor your voice without apology. In this book, you’ll discover: How to stop saying yes out of fear or obligation Practical scripts for boundary-setting in real-life situations The ...

Das grandiose Finale der Trilogie um Katja Sand: Bei einem Hafturlaub bringt der zu lebenslänglich verurteilte Martin Wolf eine Pistole an sich, erschießt zwei JVA-Beamte und ergreift die Flucht. Katja Sand ist wie gelähmt, ihre Vergangenheit holt sie ein. Vor siebzehn Jahren war sie es, die Wolf ins Gefängnis brachte. Zusammen mit einem Komplizen hatte er einen Geldtransporter überfallen, den Fahrer erschossen, über zwei Millionen Euro erbeutet und eine Geisel genommen, für die Katja sich austauschen ließ. In einer Scheune im Wald hielt Wolf sie gefangen, die versprochene Hilfe kam nicht.

Do you shut down, lash out, or spiral emotionally—seemingly out of nowhere? Are you exhausted from apologizing for reactions you barely remember having? From Triggered to Trusting is a trauma-informed, compassionate guide to understanding emotional flashbacks and rewiring your inner world. Whether you're healing from complex PTSD, emotional neglect, or deep-seated relationship wounds, this book will help you move from reaction to regulation. Inside, you’ll discover: What emotional flashbacks are and how they differ from panic attacks The hidden roots of your emotional triggers How ...

Why do you keep falling for people who hurt you? Why does love always seem to feel like work, chaos, or pain? Breaking the Cycle is a trauma-informed guide for women who are ready to stop repeating painful relationship patterns and finally build the kind of love that feels safe, steady, and real. If you’ve ever felt stuck in a loop of emotional highs and heartbreak, this book will help you understand why—and give you the tools to change it. Inside, you’ll learn: How attachment wounds from childhood affect your romantic choices The difference between trauma bonds and real intimacy Why ...

Spiritual Wounds challenges the widespread belief that the contentious events of the Irish Civil War (1922–23) were covered in a total blanket of silence. The book uncovers an archive of published testimonies by pro- and antitreaty men and women, written in both English and Irish. Most of the testimonies discussed were produced in the 1920s and 1930s, and nearly all have been overlooked in historical study to date. Revolutionaries went to great lengths to testify to the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war: they adopted fictionalised disguises, located their writings in other places or ...

Zwei brutal verstümmelte Leichen. Zwei Tatorte, die die Handschrift von Franz Bichler tragen. Aber der kürzlich aus der Haft entlassene Serientäter hat ein Alibi. Gibt es einen Nachahmer? Die Opfer, die OP-Schwester Selma Kiefer und der Kinderchirurg Thomas Goldt, waren beide in den 60ern in einem Augsburger Krankenhaus tätig. Katja Sand ist überzeugt, dass ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Morden besteht und wendet sich an den Trauma- Experten und Psychoanalytiker Dr. Alexander Hanning. Dieser vermutet, dass der Täter jemand sein könnte, der seit Jahren im falschen Körper lebt.

The worst is over. All that remains for the survivors hiding in the castle is to gather supplies to prevent starvation. It is a problem they believe they can solve without further loss of life.

Zwei Tote, der eine ertrunken in einem See, der andere erstickt in einem Kühlschrank. Die Parallelen zwischen den Fällen sind frappierend: Beide Opfer waren schwer traumatisiert und sind unter Umständen gestorben, die an das traumatisierende Erlebnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit erinnern. Handelt es sich wirklich um Suizide, wie es die Obduktionen und der Psychoanalytiker Dr. Hanning nahelegen? Hauptkommissarin Katja Sand hat ihre Zweifel. Als sie auf einen vertuschten Skandal der Bundesmarine stößt, läuten bei ihr alle Alarmglocken. Der Druck von oben wächst.

Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina, and her bond with the little boy intensifies.