Relationship Trauma

Most of us are only starting to become aware of how our foundational years contribute to who we are today. Our childhood environment shapes the foundation for our sense of self, how we feel about the world, and how we relate to others. If we experienced trauma or dysfunction along the way, it likely disrupted the pathways to these fundamental structures. Understanding our trauma is not about blame, but about understanding, learning, and growing. In most cases, our caregivers did the best they could with the tools they had, often while dealing with external or internal stressors as well.

The stress of painful past experiences is more than just a memory. It can cause you to avoid certain people or places, affect your emotions, even your trust in people. This makes the most important relationships in life harder to maintain. You’ve likely gotten this far by creating your own coping mechanisms. Maybe even done the work of understanding your past. But we can understand our past mentally, and still feel the pain of trauma. Because the body doesn’t forget. Some pain has to be worked through at a deeper level.

If you've experienced trauma, you may struggle to think positively, or feel too anxious to believe in an abundant and joyful future. This is especially true if you have unhealed childhood trauma. Written by a psychologist and trauma expert, Heal Your Past to Manifest Your Future acknowledges the profound impact of past trauma on your ability to imagine, move toward, and create a life you truly love; and offers a three-step process to regulate your nervous system, "reparent" your inner child, and rewire your brain to open to new possibilities.

Are you ready to recover from toxic relationships, heal from past trauma, and reclaim your life? Drawing from personal experience and extensive research, author Cassandra McBride offers a transformative journey through four essential guides.

Intergenerational trauma is a deeply ingrained cycle, affecting countless individuals seeking to break free and establish healthier future paths for themselves and their families. But you can break this cycle and move toward healing with the help of this book.

As a child, Courtney Keiser remembers spirits coming through the mirrored wall in her childhood bedroom trying to calling to her for help. But years of toxic relationships and disconnect separated her from Spirit, and herself, until she finally woke up in her mid-twenties. Dipping a toe back into the realm of emotional and spiritual life, she earned a degree in trauma-informed therapy and began to work with clients.

Are you questioning if you’ll ever fully heal from the abuse you’ve experienced? Or are you still struggling to remove yourself from a toxic dynamic? Whichever the case, healing is not only possible but inevitable when you take the courageous step toward reclaiming your power and embracing your worth.

Through our guidance, you will explore and reintegrate aspects of your mind that have been shamed and repressed. Shadow Work teaches us to stop hiding from our true selves. By owning the truth of your feelings, regardless of how "bad" or "wrong" you judge them, you reclaim your power. Shadow Work is about confronting the truth and nothing but the truth.

A groundbreaking manual that explores the intricate relationships between empaths and narcissists is "Empath and The Narcissist, Healing from Narcissistic Abuse: Recovery from PTSD, Codependency, Gaslighting Manipulation and Childhood Trauma through Effective Exercises" by Sarah Cohen. The listener is guided by Cohen through the subtle but harmful patterns of narcissistic abuse, including as manipulation, emotional exploitation, and gaslighting, which can result in codependency, PTSD, and long-lasting psychological trauma.

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.

The Romeo & Juliet Delusion provides inspiration to anyone whose life has been touched by addiction or domestic violence. Abbott relies on raw and uninhibited storytelling to convey the methods she used to explore healing and freedom from trauma. Abbott's hope is that by authentically sharing her story, she can help to change the lives of people in similar situations and inspire others to view addiction and domestic abuse with compassion and curiosity.

Embark on your transformative journey today. EMBRACE your inner child, unlock authentic living, and cultivate lasting self-love. Progress can be challenging when an adult with inner child issues is in the driver’s seat. But what is this inner child, and how much control can it have on you?

With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times.

Multiple affairs, compulsive pornography, prostitutes, and voyeurism - no matter their “drug” of choice, men who act out sexually leave their partners reeling in fear, rage, shame, and isolation. But there is hope. Best-selling author Claudia Black’s revised edition of her classic work Deceived offers women in relationships plagued by sexual betrayal the validation and guidance to create a new path of clarity, direction, and confidence.

This guide by Dr. Lawrence L James, an expert in alcoholism and trauma, offers not just knowledge but a shared understanding of the lifelong impact of adverse childhood experiences. Drawing from personal and professional experiences, Dr. James delves into the heart of the emotional and psychological turmoil faced by adult children of alcoholics.

Living with a broken inner child can leave you with unhealthy coping mechanisms and prevent you from growing and developing as an adult. Inner child work allows you to recognize and address the traumatic experiences that you’ve lived through in the past. It serves as a way to look back in time, granting you the opportunity to analyze the thoughts and feelings of the past with the knowledge and understanding of the present.

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.

With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

Are you struggling with unresolved feelings from your past? Do you find yourself stuck in unhealthy relationship patterns, battling low self-esteem, or feeling disconnected from who you truly are? This audiobook is here to guide you through the healing process, helping you reconnect with your inner child and find the peace you deserve.

Stop feeling not good enough, stop believing everything is always your fault, stop telling yourself you don't deserve to be loved. If this sounds like you there is a good chance you were raised by a parent on the "Continuum of Narcissism". Parents who either had to always be right, appear perfect, were self-absorbed, or thrived on power and control.