Parenting Trauma

Karena Kilcoyne shares with raw vulnerability how she rose above her stories of abandonment, worthlessness, and shame. She’ll help you let go of your own past by embracing every beautiful, imperfect piece of yourself—no matter what your story looks like. Rising above your story will empower you to live the life of your dreams. Karena’s beautifully simple yet powerful formula offers emotional freedom and unfettered joy when you’re ready to embrace the vibrant, worthy, and lovable person you truly are.

A practicing neurosurgeon and award-winning author shares his roadmap to finding hope and even happiness when the worst happens—by placing trust in God—in this powerful memoir of personal tragedy, grief, and recovery.

The audiobook 52 Pieces: A Manual of Light to Survive the Abyss of Trauma is based on Dr. Marina Kostina's near-death sky-diving accident and her miraculous journey back to life. Dr. Kostina's body and face were broken into 52 pieces, and it took 10 surgeries to put her back together. The book details the author's struggle with PTSD, depression, and anxiety through the abyss of her tragedy.

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).

Dive into "The Somatic Therapy Workbook," your essential companion workbook to embrace the profound realms of self-discovery, trauma recovery, and mastering the mind-body connection. Unleash Your Potential: This workbook is a holistic guide to unlocking your true potential, fostering self-love, and navigating life's challenges with resilience. Mastering the Mind-Body Connection: What if the key to true well-being lies in the harmony between your mind and body?

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression.

Narcissistic Parents by In A Nutshell is written to show you how to end your lifelong struggle with parental narcissistic abuse and recover your self-esteem. Within this book, you’ll discover how to deal with the impacts of narcissistic abuse, heal from emotional abuse, and know how to move forward beyond self-doubt and fear to create a life of meaningful purpose.

Do you yearn to unleash your true self, shatter chains of past patterns and deepen self-love? Then embark on a transformative journey with this 3-in-1 Shadow Work guide for beginners.

Have you ever felt exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself? As a Black woman, navigating through the challenges of everyday life can be emotionally draining. But what if there was a way to reclaim your power, embrace your uniqueness, and prioritize your own well-being? In "Emotional Self Care for Black Women," by Nya Love, you'll embark on a transformative journey towards emotional healing, self-discovery, and living a life of fulfillment, love, and joy.

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.

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.

Why are stress and anxiety neurodivergent issues? Quite simply, because much of the modern world isn’t designed by or for us. Most of us are constantly bombarded by demands we struggle to meet in environments we struggle to tolerate. The larger the gap between what we are expected to do and what we can do comfortably, the greater our stress and anxiety will be. When we experience this ongoing, gnawing pressure from childhood, trauma is almost inevitable.

In 2021, women represented 54.3% of the US workforce but only held 35% of senior leadership positions. Of that percentage, only 2.7% of Asian women were seen in management roles. While there have been great leaps for women in the workplace in the last decade, women of color still fall behind. The Tao of Self-Confidence book sets a foundation to help Asian women start being seen as leaders in work and life rather than by our stereotypes. In order to move forward with true confidence, we must learn the lessons our challenges have taught us and heal our trauma.

Childhood trauma is more common than any healthy society would like, with more than two-thirds of children reporting at least one traumatic event by age 16.

Almost all of us have had some sort of traumatic experience, but each person deals with it differently. Depending on the experience and the personality and biology of the person who experiences it, they may suffer immensely or feel little to zero effect. Similarly, when it comes to healing from that trauma, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. That is where this invaluable book comes in.

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.

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.

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.

Author Madeline Popelka shares an insight that she gained along her healing journey that shifted her perspective, brought her comfort, reduced her shame, or helped her feel less alone. She weaves in her own personal stories throughout the book, providing readers with the encouragement to keep going so survivors can feel whole again after trauma has turned their world upside down.

You are not alone. In Betrayed by Work, authors Julia Erickson, MBA, and Suzanne Vosburg, PhD, bear witness to the stories of women just like you - and just like them. This book shows how women lost their jobs, describes what happened to them immediately and in the aftermath, validates women's feelings about being fired, and offers a source of hope and companionship to those of us coping with either our own job loss or the sudden job loss of someone we know or love.