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The Least Retraumatizing Read on Childhood Sexual Abuse. For Survivors, by a Survivor. 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. Survivors of child sex abuse (CSA) are inundated with untrue stories of their abuse, the aftermath, and what their healing journey should look like....

A succinct and compelling treatise on the bio-psycho-social effects of trauma, and the connections between trauma and addiction, as well as how these conditions facilitate each other. The challenges of working effectively with those struggling with trauma and co-occurring addiction in treatment settings are presented, along with recommended approaches for those in treatment and early addiction recovery. There is a clear relationship between trauma...

In 2010 the Department of Veterans Affairs cited 171,423 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans diagnosed with PTSD, out of 593,634 total patients treated. That's almost 30 percent; other statistics show 35 percent. Nor, of course, is PTSD limited to the military. In twenty years as a therapist, Susan Pease Banitt has treated trauma in patients ranging from autistic children to women with breast cancer; from underage sex slaves to adults incapacitated...

Life in Baghdad, Iraq, in October 2003 and again in 2006 was like living in a Crock-Pot. It was hot, and the breeze, if you can call it that, was just as hot. We would travel to strange destinations to attend meetings, drop off supplies, or pick up soldiers. We even performed guard duty and with the scorching temperatures. The protective gear that we wore added about twenty degrees and an extra thirty pounds. The temperature was approximately 140...

TIR offers an opportunity for the members of a CISM team to deal with any accumulated emotional baggage that their involvement in crisis-intervention has created. Training in TIR adds another tool to the toolkit of crisis-intervention techniques and enables peer-support to ad-dress an extended range of crisis-reactions, even those that might justify a clinical diagnosis. If virtually all the emotional reactions of a colleague in crisis could be accommodated...

Una exhaustiva investigación sobre lo que le ocurre al cuerpo humano bajo el estrés de un combate letal: cómo afecta al sistema nervioso, al corazón, a la respiración, y las distorsiones perceptuales y la pérdida de memoria que se pueden producir. También se abordan los últimos hallazgos sobre las técnicas de adiestramiento como, por ejemplo, la inoculación del estrés y la respiración táctica, que pueden prevenir estos efectos debilitadores...

After losing her son to drugs, the author begins to see and feel a connection that her son was still around beginning with the funeral, and through her deep sorrow and depression. She continued this sense of connection with her son through her cancer treatment (chemotherapy and radiation). She feels a sense of knowing he's around and confirmation through music, color, and more. Those who have lost a child know how your heart breaks and stays that...

The Blacksmith is a must read for anyone trying to overcome the difficulties that are inevitable in life. Robert explains how he overcame PTSD and was able to finally put to rest events in his past that had emotionally scarred him, From the life-threatening situations while being deployed during the first Gulf war to dealing with being homeless and losing everything he had. Using the action plan for his life, that is outlined in The Blacksmith Robert...

The Chrysalis, is specifically about the author's struggles with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from his experiences as a United States Marine fighting in the first Gulf War. It describes all of the events of his life and everything he encountered and suffered through for over 20 years. It also shows how he decided to turn his life around and become successful with it and how that process took six years to accomplish. By reading this book you...

Ce livre numérique décrit le stress, ainsi que ses bénéfices et ses risques pour les êtres humains. Vous êtes surchargé.e de travail ? Votre patron vous hurle dans les oreilles ? Vous êtes hyper angoissé.e par les délais ? Vous êtes sous pression ? Votre vie quotidienne vous stresse ? Alors lisez ça, parce que vous allez y découvrir comment réduire le stress une fois pour toutes! Et pour commencer... Qu'est-ce que le stress ? Le stress,...