Healing from Post-Traumatic Stress

✍ Scribed by Monique Lang

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An effective, life-affirming guide to help you get through your traumatic experience Written by an experienced psychotherapist who has helped hundreds of trauma victims in her private practice, workshops, and lectures, this unique, progressive approach to healing is designed to help you cope with the aftermath of a stressful event. An informative guide with a user-friendly format, this workbook invites you to participate in the process of your recovery, using simple anxiety-reducing exercises, revealing questions, yoga and meditation tools, art therapy, writing, and other therapeutic techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction: How to Use This Book......Page 13
1 Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress......Page 21
2 Being Kind to Yourself: Self-Care Techniques......Page 27
3 Reacting to Trauma: Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors......Page 35
4 Your Story......Page 49
5 Fight, Flight, Freeze......Page 61
6 Guilt......Page 73
7 Dealing with Anxiety......Page 81
8 Grief......Page 89
9 Flashbacks, Dreams, and Nightmares......Page 101
10 The Ripple Effect......Page 113
11 People Close to You: Family and Friends......Page 147
12 You Don't Have to Do it Alone......Page 157
13 Medical and Psychological Attention......Page 169
14 Trauma and Spirituality......Page 183
15 Gratitude......Page 197
16 Looking Forward......Page 203
C......Page 213
H......Page 214
R......Page 215
T......Page 216
Y......Page 217