![]() ![]() Overall, this is an easy and intriguing read. It’s truly a package approach to recovery. Very importantly, he pointed out that talk therapy alone doesn’t work. When I picked this book up, it happens that I’ve been learning about and practicing a lot of what the author discussed so the strategies offered particularly resonated with me. *He offers many strategies and openly tells you to accept or leave what doesn’t fit for you. *The author is vulnerable which spoke to me from a 1 to 1 view rather than from a preachy place. *He explains why, if you’ve done a certain therapy before, it may not have “worked”. There is not a one size fits all solution. *He offers a swiss-army knife approach to working through the trauma. *Depending on which group you fall into, he gives key strategies to how you approach things and ways to recover in your style. *He breaks down the survivor types and their characteristics into four groups, all which seemed spot on. *Though acknowledging the trauma of physical and sexual abuse he primarily focuses on the the severe scarring of emotional abuse, abandonment, and neglect. *The author speaks from experience as both a survivor and a therapist. There are many elements that make this self-recovery book stand above others for me. The author is grounded in that he himself has struggled with trauma recovery and it’s palpable that he wishes to impart the strategies and wisdom he has found to work for himself and others. I hope this map will guide you to heal in a way that helps you to become an unflinching source of kindness and self-compassion for yourself, and that out of that journey you will find at least one other human being who will reciprocally love you well enough in that way.Ĭomplex PTSD is one of the best books I’ve read on childhood trauma recovery.ĭespite the long title, the book itself is not complex nor is it written in psycho-babble ra-ra. This in turn also serves to help you identify the signs of your recovery and to develop reasonable expectations about the rate of your recovery. The book also functions as a map to help you understand the somewhat linear progression of recovery, to help you identify what you have already accomplished, and to help you figure out what is best to work on and prioritize now. Key concepts of the book include managing emotional flashbacks, understanding the four different types of trauma survivors, differentiating the outer critic from the inner critic, healing the abandonment depression that come from emotional abandonment and self-abandonment, self-reparenting and reparenting by committee, and deconstructing the hierarchy of self-injuring responses that childhood trauma forces survivors to adopt. A great deal of new material is also explored. Moreover, many principles that were only sketched out in the articles are explained in much greater detail. As such, much of the psychological jargon and dense concentration of concepts in the website articles has been replaced with expanded and easier to follow explanations. However, unlike the articles on my website, it is oriented toward the layperson. ![]() It extensively elaborates on all the recovery concepts explained on my website, and many more. This book also contains an overview of the tasks of recovering and a great many practical tools and techniques for recovering from childhood trauma. This book is also for those who do not have Cptsd but want to understand and help a loved one who does. It is copiously illustrated with examples of my own and my clients’ journeys of recovering. This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes – in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. The causes of Cptsd range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy…or alone! An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd. I have Complex PTSD and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. ![]()
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