Healing Relationship Trauma

Self-healing through self-parenting, a concept introduced a generation ago, has helped thousands of adult children of alcoholics who are codependent and have conflicts in their primary relationships. Now Patricia O'Gorman, PhD, and Phil Diaz, MSW, authors of the classic book The 12 Steps to Self-Parenting for Adult Children and its companion workbook, expand the reach of that successful healing paradigm to anyone who has suffered from any kind of trauma.

When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the medical system to which she’d devoted her entire career was failing patients. The experience was dehumanizing. Her doctors weren’t listening. And the confusion, fear, and shame she felt around her diagnosis was preventing her from truly healing, claiming her story, and living her fullest, richest life. Here, Dr. Brewster and journalist Rachel Zimmerman each share their own personal stories, acting as expert guides as you move forward on your healing journey.

During this journey, you will explore themes such as generational trauma, healing from ego states, and confronting the dark aspects of your past through shadow work. You will be called to your hidden memory and unconscious programming. Thus, you will be introduced to the I-Girl process to enable healing and to take back control.

A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma has been internationally recognized as an essential text on shame. Integrating new theory about trauma, shame resilience, and self-compassion, this second edition further clarifies the relational, right-brain essence of being in and with the suffering of shame. New chapters carry theory further into praxis.

The wounds of our inner child, though hidden, can silently devastate our present reality. They shape our beliefs, influence our choices, and hinder our joy. But here’s the truth: you hold the power to heal them with the help of “Healing Your Inner Child”—an empowering guide designed to illuminate the path to healing using practical, yet profound tools deeply rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Brian Weiss made headlines with his ground-breaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive clinical experience, he builds on time-tested techniques of psychotherapy, revealing how regression to past lifetimes provides the necessary breakthrough to healing mind, body, and soul.

Healing trauma can be very challenging and a truly painful journey. Do you ever find yourself trapped in a cycle of pain and distress, haunted by past traumas that seem to hold you back at every turn? Traumatized people can become trapped, like mosquitoes in amber, frozen in the moment of their catastrophe. It can feel like an overwhelming burden, keeping you from moving forward in life. You long for a sense of peace and healing but don’t know where to start.

Know that you are no longer alone. For a long time, I didn't know what triggered my anger. Past and present were mixed together, and it was impossible for me to tell them apart. I felt rejected and abandoned. To get to see it more clearly, I undertook several therapeutic approaches, in groups, alone. The secret was buried deeply in my memory and poisoned my existence. All I wanted was to feel better. I simply did not know how and what was causing my suffering.

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.

Four audiobooks in one. This is the most powerful collection of audiobooks on codependency, narcissistic, and emotional abuse recovery that will help you deal with, stop suffering, heal, and finally start living life free from manipulative, abusive, and toxic people.

Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging. Adoptees often spend the majority of their youth without the language to explore the grief related to adoption or the permission to legitimize their conflicting emotions. Adoptee and counselor Cameron Lee Small names the realities of the adoptee's journey, narrating his own and other adoptees' stories in all their complexity.

Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite listeners to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and fully reclaim and embrace their bodies.

In our search for love, affection, and acceptance, we often find ourselves repeating old patterns with new partners. Our brains seek familiar touch points as a way of navigating the unpredictability of our lives, but this means we can find ourselves reentering relationships with the same toxic dynamics. Toxic relationships are especially hard to recover from, especially when they uncovered some of our earliest and deepest traumas. When we leave them, we often find ourselves nursing a broken heart, again and again.

Is something missing from your life—like an unknown part of yourself needs to be unearthed and nurtured? Or maybe you feel like you’re stuck in a cycle of negative thinking and can’t seem to break free. If so, then inner child work may be the answer.

This book is an excellent resource for discovering your inner child. Not only that, but it also explains how to reclaim your inner child following any major or minor trauma, and how to do so in order to reach your full potential. If you want to live a fulfilling life, you must not abandon this part of yourself.

Are you constantly feeling emotionally tortured by someone you used to love? Do you see no point in trying to get out because your abusive partner has taken control of your life? Abuse survivor turned domestic violence advocate, Marjorie Lise, knows this all too well. In her audiobook, she talks about how she was able to successfully stop suffering in silence and finally escape her abusive partner whom she had stayed with for an entire decade, with the hope that her experience will inspire you to take back control of your life, too.

Divorce is one of the few things that’s more stressful than changing jobs or moving house, and there’s often a feeling that there’s simply no light at the end of the tunnel. The person who was your rock somehow became your worst enemy, constantly ready to do battle with you and sabotage your happiness.

Too often, survivors of trauma are left feeling hopeless, exiled from normal social interactions, and destined for heartbreak in any relationship they attract. Through her work with clients, and her own experiences, Dr. Copley developed a roadmap for healing the toxic emotions that come from being bonded by trauma in relationships. In Loving You is Hurting Me, Dr. Copley guides you through your trauma origins and into a life rich with meaning, loving connection, and inspiration.

How to Breathe While Suffocating is your antidote to the all-too-common tendency to surrender, giving up on your life's ambitions. You don't have to give up! For anyone who has gotten caught in the trap of "I can't do it," this book reminds you that you are enough, you possess value, and your unique ability to engage with the world can and will get you to where you want to be.

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.