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Emotionally battered and neglected by her personality disordered parents—and manipulated by Mormon beliefs—16-year-old Sarah was convinced her boyfriend Michael would save her. When her parents discovered that they’d committed the sin of premarital sex, the aftermath left the teenagers irrevocably bonded.

If your partner is a survivor of sexual trauma, they may experience anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or feel triggered by intimate situations. And you may feel confused or unsure of how to support them. This gentle guide will give you the tools you need to help nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a secure relationship. In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, marriage, family, and sex therapist Megan Lara Negendank offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to support your partner.

When therapist Elizabeth Heaney left her private practice to counsel military service members and their families, she came face-to-face with unheard-of struggles and fears. Emotions run deeply - and often silently - in the hearts of combat veterans in this eye-opening portrait of the complex, nuanced lives of service personnel, who return from battling the enemy and grapple with readjusting to civilian life.

Late one night, while Rebecca Fogg was alone in her apartment, her hand was partially amputated in an explosion. Quick thinking saved her life, but the journey to recovery would be a slow one. As the doctors rebuilt her hand, Rebecca (who also survived 9/11) began rebuilding her sense of self by studying the physical and psychological process of recovery.

Seventy percent of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives. That's 223.4 million people. Twenty percent of these people will develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a severe reaction to traumatic events. One in 13 people will develop PTSD at some point in their life. No matter what caused your trauma or how bad it is, there is a cure to recover from darkness and rediscover happiness again.

Healing Honestly is a candid, poignant, and often funny survivor-to-survivor guide to navigating the salty waters of untrue stories and victim-blaming narratives that survivors of child sex abuse hear every day.

Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield into military communities where violence is as routine, boring, and normal as it is shocking and traumatic.

Childhood sexual abuse (or child sexual abuse/CSA) is not only an assault on the body—it is an assault on the mind and on the spirit. It is an insult to the victim’s integrity, her self-esteem, his very being. Besides imposing a significantly higher risk of conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, substance abuse, and learning & educational difficulties, the most devastating consequence of childhood sexual abuse is shame.

Are you tired of reliving traumatic experiences and struggling with the burden of PTSD? Does sleep evade you as nightmares and flashbacks haunt your nights? It's time to take back control of your life and find healing with the transformative audio book, Stop PTSD Now: Sleep Hypnosis Meditation.

PTSD, as the name suggests, is a stress disorder that follows a traumatic event or period of time where an individual is gripped by such terror and feelings of helplessness that it actually changes how their nervous system operates moving forward. This insidious, and far too often life-threatening disorder can arise from the aforementioned cases of war or sexual abuse, but it also can be set in motion by any and all other forms of psychological trauma.

Manche Menschen sind grundlos traurig, ängstlich oder leiden an Schmerzen, für die es keine Erklärung gibt. Manche wollen ihr Potenzial leben und stoßen immer wieder an eine Grenze, die unüberwindbar scheint. Die Ursache kann in der Familiengeschichte liegen, wenn erlittenes Leid durch Kriegserlebnisse, Unfälle oder eine frühe Trennung von den Eltern an die nächste Generation weitervererbt wurde.

Surviving Dissociative Identity is the book you need to help live with this condition. DID is incredibly hard to deal with on your own, especially due to how little attention it is given by other people.

The author tells her story of sexual abuse as a child and as a young teen. This culminates in pregnancy from a close family member. She tells of her traumatic aftermath and goes on to take you through the positive steps she takes to heal, to forgive, and move on with her life.

On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis - and media circus - that would mesmerize the world, drawing into its grip everyone from Sweden's most notorious outlaw to the prime minister himself.

In The Healing Otherness Handbook, Stacee Reicherzer-a nationally known transgender psychotherapist and expert on trauma, otherness, and self-sabotage - shares her own personal story of childhood bullying, and how it inspired her to help others heal from the same wounds. Drawing from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Reicherzer will help you gain a better understanding of how past trauma has limited your life, and show you the keys to freeing yourself from self-defeating, destructive beliefs.

This is the story of man named Shane Cronley who is a father, husband, and retired firefighter/EMT who has suffered and battled against rheumatoid arthritis since 2006. Shane also has degenerative disc disease, osteoporosis, and spinal atrophy, which contributed to his L5-S1 back surgery in April 2018.

Neste audiolivro, Maya destaca os benefícios físicos e emocionais que uma relação baseada no afeto, respeito e acolhimento pode trazer às nossas crianças, quebrando o ciclo de violência que temos perpetuado de geração em geração. A trajetória para uma educação respeitosa pode até não ser a mais simples e natural—afinal, ainda somos todos adultos feridos, criando filhos sobreviventes—mas é possível, sim, quebrar este ciclo de violência.

Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after escaping - by a hair's breadth - getting blown out of the sky when an engine exploded five feet away from her, 23 workers compensation board- and airline-employed psychiatrists and psychologists attempted to drive Nattanya into suicide. With the help of her Irish psychiatrist, she survived 10 years of their treatment with her sanity and physical health intact.

Da Eva som 21-årig bliver udsat for en overvældende begivenhed, er det så svært for hende at acceptere, at hun fortrænger det. Men som årene går, bliver det sværere og sværere for hende at føle sig tilpas i sin egen krop. Da hun en dag læser, at traumer påvirker følelsen af bevægelsesfrihed, slår det hende, at hendes krop måske er traumatiseret som følge af hændelsen for over et årti siden. Det bliver starten på en lang rejse ind i en verden, hun aldrig før har beskæftiget sig med, nemlig kroppens anatomi og hjernens kemiske processer.

The depth or imaginal psychotherapy is highly effective in treating and assessing adult survivors of childhood abuse. Specifically, interventions that use dreams, symbols, and metaphor, as well as expressive art techniques, are deemed especially valuable as they address dissociative changes. By assessing specific depth psychological aspects of the individual’s shattered sense of self, a more focused and efficient treatment plan can be created sooner in the course of therapy. Discover more with Brain Healing and Trauma.