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Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It's with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, M.D., a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental-health care, presents Once a Warrior - Always a Warrior, a groundbreaking resource with essential new insights for anyone who has ever returned home from a war zone. The heart of this book focuses on what's necessary to successfully navigate the transition - "LANDNAV" for the home front.

Dieses Hörbuch ist für alle, die das Gefühl haben, so, wie sie sind, nicht »richtig« zu sein. Sie leiden etwa an unerklärlichen Schuldgefühlen, können eigene Bedürfnisse kaum benennen, keine Grenzen setzen oder spüren ihren Körper nicht. Die Ursache können seelische Verletzungen aus den ersten Lebensjahren sein. Manchmal durch ein schlimmes Ereignis ausgelöst, viel häufiger jedoch dadurch, dass das Aufwachsen ohne sichere Bindung und Zugehörigkeit erfolgte.

How does autistic trauma really feel, and how can you find your way through it to a warmer, brighter place? Written by best-selling author Charlotte Amelia Poe this is a poignant and whimsical exploration of the true autistic experience. Chapter-by-chapter, Poe delicately peels back the layers of what it is to be young and autistic in the modern world, touching on trauma, grief, mortality, love and everything in between.

Wargasm delves into the psychology of war, exploring the resilience and leadership forged in combat. Through a profound analysis of human conflict, this book examines the warrior mindset and the moral compass required to navigate the trials of warfighting.

Part memoir, part inspiration, Wake Up! shines a light on extraordinary tales and insights from ordinary moments throughout Pflug’s life. It is for anyone who's ever felt stuck in a life that doesn't quite fit them anymore. Throughout the years, Pflug had gotten so far away from herself that she didn't even recognize that she was suffocating her soul. That came with a huge price tag.

"The authors’ definition of trauma is valuably broad and complex, and their concepts are unpacked in nonjudgmental terms. It’s a solid addition to the rising tide of literature on trauma." —Publishers Weekly A groundbreaking collaboration between Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal...

Have you ever been unable to escape the hold of trauma and felt imprisoned by it? Does regaining control over your thoughts, feelings, and life seem like a daily struggle? You're not by yourself. More significantly, you are not alone in this path.

Healthcare workers and first responders go to work every day to do amazing things for complete strangers. A culture exists, where it is not acceptable to admit how experiencing tragic events affect them. This book focuses on the stressors faced from a nurse's perspective, specifically in the emergency department. Traumatic stress is a real problem and contributing factor to the short career life expectancy of many nurses. Nurse turnover is higher than the general population and ER nurses turnover is exponentially higher.

One in three will experience a significant trauma in their life. Brilliantly read by author and army Apache pilot Lt. Col. Brian L. Slade, experience the war from the cockpit as he shares his experience with trauma in Afghanistan.

From the "Brené Brown of trauma" comes a groundbreaking, actionable guide to healing trauma through a reframing and adaptation of Positive Psychology. Joy can feel complicated, especially to someone who is struggling. Against the very real darkness that life offers up, a chorus of “but do you...

There’s a new and faster way to get relief from past trauma...but few have ever heard it. Most people are told to just manage, cope, or medicate their pain away. If you’re tired of just getting by and want a powerful natural solution, then apply the nine tools I lay out in this book.

When Michael Patrick kissed his wife goodbye before spinal surgery, he thought he was stepping into a routine procedure. Instead, he woke to nothing—no breath, no voice, no control. A failed extubation left him drowning on dry land, tethered to a ventilator in the ICU.

Many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes, have stress as a prime contributor. And if this continues, you could become fatigued, sick, etc., or even worse. If you want to be able to continue being a productive employee, doting parent, or caring friend, something needs to change. But it can be hard to change when you’ve become used to living with stress for so long. This is where this guide comes in.

Lives can suddenly be sent crashing down when images, conversations, smells, or sounds begin to remind us of something that is now associated with a traumatic event of that time. Emotional trauma increases the feeling of shame inflicted many years ago. Families hid it and never spoke about it, fearing that the trauma would shed disgraceful light on the survivor - the syndrome of "we don’t air our dirty laundry”.

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.

Drawing on the mind-body techniques of somatic therapy, The Healing Sexual Trauma Guided Journal offers insightful writing prompts to help you explore your emotions, overcome internalized shame, and heal your traumatized nervous system.

Journaling for Trauma Recovery is your guide to using expressive writing as a tool for emotional healing and mental health improvement. This transformative book offers a compassionate roadmap to help you process trauma, foster self-reflection, and build resilience through the power of journaling. Journaling is more than a creative outlet—it is a proven method for trauma recovery and personal growth. By engaging in self-reflective writing, you can confront and process difficult emotions, unlocking the potential for healing from trauma.

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.

Sociometrics offers many small, incremental moments of healing that cumulatively help to peel back the layers of the onion, revealing ever deepening and widening aspects of both the self and the self in relation to others. Sociometrics is a therapeutic role-playing practice built upon the foundation of psychodrama and sociometry, the pioneering group-therapy concepts developed by fin-de-siecle Viennese psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno.  

Regulate your emotions, defuse your triggers, control your thoughts, and find your calm no matter where you are using the practical and proven self-soothing activities in The Little Book of Self-Soothing. Stressful experiences are an unfortunate and unavoidable part of everyday life. While you...