Trauma & Healing

While our language trumpets what our bodies know - 'gut feelings,' hearts that 'reach out' to others - many of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust these messages. Even worse, lots of us just don't like our bodies as they are.

Trauma occurs when extremely stressful events shatter your emotional and psychological well-being, overwhelming your ability to cope. Research by the charity PTSD UK has found that 1 in 2 people will experience trauma at some point in their life, and 20% of those will develop post-traumatic stress.

Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.

Acclaimed memoirists describe the process of writing their most painful memories

Written by a team of experts in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this workbook offers powerful, symptom-specific skills from a variety of empirically supported cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatments, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and-for the first time-cogniti

This book offers an array of yoga, mind-body, and attachment-based skills for therapists to use with and teach their clients. The skills are organized around key trauma issues and symptoms, such as how to introduce somatic work for safe and secure therapy, working with dissociation, understanding trauma triggers, and developing boundaries.

Thrive in the face of challenges and radically change your perspective on adversity and loss with the cutting-edge science of posttraumatic growth and these powerful methods to grow from victim to survivor in this great message of hope (The Huffington Post).