Traumas and Triumphs

Traumas and Triumphs
Author: Paul Foxman
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1684428262

What does it take to transcend the impact of trauma and achieve happiness, meaning, and purpose? At an early age, Dr. Paul Foxman became a victim of childhood sexual abuse, poverty, multiple life-threatening medical crises, a hostile divorce, and exposure to violence. Now an accomplished psychologist, Dr. Foxman shares key lessons from the process of overcoming traumas to create a life filled with love, fulfillment, and security. He validates the possibility of a fulfilling life that goes well beyond survival to true recovery: to regain the ability to trust, to love and be loved, to feel empowered and safe, and to discover one’s purpose. In Traumas and Triumphs, Dr. Foxman recounts his inspiring personal journey to recovery while supplying insights into resources to aid in managing anxiety and healing from trauma.

Traumas and Triumphs

Traumas and Triumphs
Author: Paul Foxman
Publisher: Hunter House
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2022
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781684428243

Written by an accomplished psychologist who overcame severe trauma, this book is a personal, case example of what it takes to transcend the impact of childhood and adult trauma and achieve happiness, fulfillment, meaning, and purpose.

Your Queendom Awaits

Your Queendom Awaits
Author: LaTonya Porter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781721509461

Are you living a life that you did not chose for yourself?Is it plagued by challenges and obstacles or painful memories?Are you looking for healthy ways to heal from the trauma you've experienced?Most of us would never choose a life that is filled with pain and suffering, but often from the most demanding times the greatest triumphs are born. Life's challenges are designed to create a journey that prepares us for our Queendom.This book, Your Queendom Awaits, is the sharing of seven intimate stories detailing personal traumas the author has endured from adolescence to adulthood and includes:Being braveUsing faith as a toolHow to selfishly reach your goalsForgiving others and yourselfAccepting failure as a step towards successChanging yourself and your lifeAnd much more...If you are stuck in a cycle of constant doubt, foolish decisions and catastrophic consequences be sure that there are paths that you can navigate through it.In just five crucial steps, using Your Queendom Awaits, you can implement a strategy to unlock your potential and find your own Queendom.We may not choose the trials of our lives, but we can choose the triumphs!

The Girls Within

The Girls Within
Author: Gill Frost
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1912691604

A compelling true story of one woman's battle with the aftermath of childhood trauma, which gives a gripping account of the often controversial and misunderstood condition of dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). This emotional but ultimately uplifting journey details the unforeseen twists and turns of the effects of therapy and how it can help in coming to terms with the past and its unsettling echoes in the present. Heartwarming and lucid, it's an inspiring tale for all to read. Through its clinical rigour, professional therapists will also gain insight into the various treatment options for DID, including the innovative use of energy therapy. The book contains 32 colour illustrations, including 24 drawings by The Girls. The star of this book is an extraordinary, bright-spirited, and entertaining six-year-old girl, called Little Vivvi, who experienced shocking abuse from members of her family. Yet Little Vivvi lives within Vivian, a middle-aged woman who has struggled with DID for many years. The challenging process of psychotherapy is laid bare, as Little Vivvi wrestles with overwhelming memories of childhood abuse. Alongside talking therapy, energy treatment, which she calls Wooshing, is utilised to astonishing effect, becoming the enigmatic ingredient that finally enables Little Vivvi to find relief from the distress and fear that had dominated her existence. As therapy seems to draw to a close, Izzy appears. A very sensitive, thoughtful and mature eight-year-old, Izzy too needs love, support and treatment to speak about her trauma. After overcoming her understandable distrust, Izzy enables an exceptional ending to the therapeutic journey, far beyond anything Vivian and her therapist, Gill, could have dreamed. Little Vivvi and Izzy will make you want to laugh out loud as well as cry. Their story teaches so much about suffering, dissociation and survival. Their aim is to enlighten, inspire and offer hope to others through reading their incredible tales, which reveal the astonishing power of The Girls within.

Got Issues Much?

Got Issues Much?
Author: Randi Reisfeld
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780590632744

Celebrities including Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Michelle Kwan, share their personal stories, offering insight into problems and issues confronting young readers

Liza, with a Z

Liza, with a Z
Author: Michael Freedland
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781861056818

Daughter of the legendary Judy Garland, Liza Minelli has lived an extraordinary and unconventional life. This biography explores her work on stage and screen, including Caberet and New York, New York and includes her relationship and marriage to producer David Gest.

The Myth of Normal

The Myth of Normal
Author: Gabor Maté, MD
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 059308389X

The instant New York Times bestseller By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health? Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.

Peeling Back the Layers

Peeling Back the Layers
Author: Lawayne Childrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781478740414

Everyday millions of people lose sight of their dreams when life's gut wrenching curve balls knock them off their feet and out of the game. With the grace of God, that was not the case for Lawayne Orlando Childrey, who has endured some of the most horrific trauma imaginable, including childhood sexual abuse, depression, a crack cocaine addiction and an HIV diagnosis. Childrey beat all the odds to become an award-winning and respected news journalist, a dream he has had since childhood. In his autobiography, Peeling Back the Layers, Childrey demonstrates his ability to persevere during times of immense struggle by relying on the faith that was instilled in him as a child.

Embodied Healing

Embodied Healing
Author: Jenn Turner
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1623175356

First-hand essays of embodied healing from the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at Justice Resource Institute: challenges, triumphs, and healing strategies for trauma-sensitive therapists and yoga teachers. All editor proceeds from Embodied Healing will fund direct access to Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). This collection of essays explores the applications of TCTSY--Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga--as a powerful evidence-based modality to help clients heal in the aftermath of trauma. Written by a range of contributors including yoga facilitators, survivors, and therapists, the first-hand accounts in Healing with Trauma-Sensitive Yoga examine real-life situations and provide guidance on how to act, react, and respond to trauma on the mat. Each essay centers the voices, wisdom, and experiences of survivors and practitioners who work directly with trauma-sensitive embodiment therapies. From navigating issues of touch and consent to avoiding triggers, practitioners and readers will learn how to support survivors of trauma as they reintegrate their bodies and reclaim their lives. Organized into sections based on principles of trauma-sensitive yoga--experiencing the present moment, making choices, taking effective action, and creating rhythms--the 12 essays are for yoga teachers, therapists, survivors, and mental health professionals and trauma healers.

Triumph and Trauma

Triumph and Trauma
Author: Bernhard Giesen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317250079

This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism-for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people-are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery and expulsion. The first part of the book deals with the heroes and victims and explores the social construction of charisma and its inevitable decay. Part 2 focuses on a paradigm case of the collective trauma of perpetrators: German national identity between 1945 and 2000. After a time of latency, the legacy of nationalistic trauma was addressed in a public conflict between generations. The conflict took center stage in vivid public debates and became a core element of Germany's official political culture. Today public confessions of the guilt of the past have spread beyond the German case. They are part of a new post-utopian pattern of collective identity in a globalised setting.