Parenting Trauma

With poignant prose and a deeply authentic personal story, this harrowing account exposes the stark and painful realities of childhood abuse, painting a heart-breaking picture of the lasting pain and fear that it inflicts on its victims. Spanning 30 years, in this coming-of-age memoir, author Christina Vitagliano recounts in vivid detail the frightening nights spent when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom, along with the psychological toll that the relentless familial abuse took on her psyche.

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.

Wie frühe Prägungen unsere Beziehungen bestimmen. Frühe Bindungserfahrungen und emotionale Verletzungen aus der Kindheit hinterlassen Spuren in unserem Nervensystem, die sich ein Leben lang auswirken können: wiederkehrende Konflikte, Gefühle tiefer Einsamkeit und Selbstentfremdung. Was vielen nicht bewusst ist: Gerade Beziehungsprobleme wie Bindungsängste oder der Hang zu toxischen Partnerschaften sind häufig Folgen dieser Traumata.

Choosing Change: Reclaiming Life After Childhood Trauma provides the guidance and inspiration for those living with the long-term effects of childhood trauma, drama, and dysfunction. Using the true story of the author’s life from trauma through to recovery, she identifies the key factors and steps needed to reclaim your power, your potential, and teaches you how to learn to live the life you never dreamed of.

An Army lieutenant returns from World War II, riven by PTSD. He wants to be an attorney, so he’s forced to keep his illness a secret. As far as he knows, there’s only one cure for the devastating nightmares that began during his command of an artillery company: Scotch whiskey, and lots of it.

Do you want to meditate to a script that will increase mindfulness and self healing? Do you have problems getting stressed out on a regular basis? Not enough will power? Sleeping issues such as insomnia? Or do you have anxiety? If you do, this audiobook will help you to counter these problems by listening to relaxing content which can help you get to rest much more easily. The proven teachings are so easy to follow. Even if you’ve never tried meditation before, you will still be able to find success by following the soothing material.

You are not cursed, you are only codependent. There are many people who don't know the difference between being in a healthy relationship and being in one that is codependent. This audiobook delves into why people feel this inadequacy and depend upon relationships that are at best unsatisfactory, and at worst positively abusive. The information in this audiobook gives examples, and listeners can easily adapt the exercises to suit their individual circumstances.

Many of my readers and listeners come to me wanting to learn more and more about narcissists, abusers, batterers, and trauma bonding that occurs (and the woman's inability to leave the toxic relationship even when she has knowledge that it is toxic). The purpose of this audiobook is to uncover the overt and covert tools that are used by narcissists, abuser, and batterers to control, cause dependency, and form trauma bonds with people whom they want to keep in their lives to feed their own egos.

Do you ever feel depressed, anxious, or fearful? Do you sometimes have emotions that are disproportionate to the situation? Do you feel overwhelmed and unable to make a decision or think clearly? Do you people please and say 'yes' to things that you really want to say 'no' to? Have you been diagnosed with a condition such as ADHD, Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder, or any number of immune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, or Crohn's disease? Have you suffered from childhood trauma? If so, know that none of these things are your fault.

A written companion and workbook for listeners seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma. Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centers remembering as a means of survival.

Do you know what vagus nerve is? Do you want to know how to do various vagus nerve exercises? In this audiobook we will discuss the following topics: About vagus nerve, origin of vagus nerve, where is the vagus nerve located, how to measure vagus nerve function, common symptoms of a malfunctioning vagus nerve, and many more!

Grief and grieving apply to anyone experiencing loss, even if that loss is not tied to a death. Though it may feel difficult to address the topics of grief and loss, as we return to school after an unprecedented year, it’s no longer a question of “if” or “should” but “when” and ”how.” Learning from Loss is your guide to getting started with grief work, providing a path that can help you determine the best course of action in the wake of a loss that impacts a student or school community.

Think Unbroken: 8 Steps to Healing Your Inner Child is a guide to creating a baseline understanding of rebuilding the relationship between your current self and the hurt inner child in you. Millions of people worldwide have experienced traumatic childhood experiences, and those experiences have shaped who we are. Often, adult survivors of childhood trauma seek to build a relationship with the child inside them, and the eight steps are practical tools that trauma warriors can implement into their lives immediately.

The devil whispers in my ear, “Your mother can never know about this… it will kill her if she ever finds out.” Fear quakes in my six-year-old body. Shame saturates me like a soggy mist. I draw an X across my heart, cup my hand around his ear and whisper, “Cross my heart and hope to die! I promise I will never tell!” I am VOICELESS.

In this audiobook you will discover the meaning of codependency, how to recognize the signs of codependent relationship, and how to free yourself from its destructive clutches. I have included pertinent information designed to help you recognize the behaviors displayed by codependents, and techniques that you can implement immediately, to help you end a codependent relationship in a healthy and safe way.

Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018 she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasn’t thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet, as she began her journey to healing, this is exactly what she discovered.

Respectfully, No presents a realistic guide to truly understand the importance of boundaries. Written from the perspective of someone who grew up not knowing what personal boundaries were, the author gives a realistic take on the process of setting boundaries from scratch. She shows how trauma affected her decisions in each relationship and ultimately her boundary-setting ability. She shares some useful tips and examples that would have been helpful to know along the way.

Verás, sanar del trauma infantil no tiene que ser complicado. Incluso si has intentado terapia, libros de autoayuda u otros métodos sin éxito. La verdad es que es mucho más simple de lo que piensas. La entusiasta del trauma y autora, Callie Parker, te proporciona un plan paso a paso para la sanación emocional sin retraumatizarte.

¿Te persiguen los fantasmas de traumas pasados y luchas por encontrar la paz y la plenitud? Si es así, "Shadow Work for Trauma" es para ti. Callie Parker, una experimentada investigadora en salud mental que no es ajena al trauma, ofrece una guía compasiva y empoderadora para comprender y sanar las heridas ocultas del trauma. Esto es sólo parte de lo que descubrirás en "El diario de trabajo en la sombra para el trauma".

"What an amazing work of poetic authenticity which captivated my attention. I love the style of writing, in Shattered Faith, Which Dr. Curry uses. It was as if I was within my own soul inspecting the faith on which I had built my foundations of belief."-Dr. John D. Washington, D. D. "This is a marvelous work of raw art. It opens the heart and soul and gives the depth of feeling and pain, at the bottom, before a hard journey back up. You can sense the journey, like reading Lamentations, only with jewels jumping out."-Cathie Ebert