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Traumatic events can leave mental and physical scars—but these scars don’t have to define you. Heal the Body, Heal the Mind takes trauma survivors on a supportive and healing journey toward well-being. By practicing the somatic exercises and mind-body interventions in this compassionate guide, you’ll learn to move past difficult experiences, restore relationships, and cultivate spiritual awareness. When trauma occurs, the logical mind is hijacked and physiology takes over in an effort to protect you. This leaves an imprint—your body wants to ensure that nothing like that will ever happen again. Being reminded of a traumatic event can trigger these automatic responses, leaving you fee...
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In her classic books The Courage to Heal and Allies in Healing, Laura Davis helped millions cope with the trauma of child sexual abuse. Her supportive guide Becoming the Parent You Want to Be taught parents to create a vision for their families. Now, in I Thought We'd Never Speak Again, she tackles another critical, emerging issue: reconciling relationships sundered by betrayal, anger, and misunderstanding. With her trademark clarity and compassion, Davis maps the reconciliation process through gripping firstperson stories of people who have reconciled under a wide variety of difficult circumstances. In these pages, parents reconcile with children, embittered siblings reconnect, estranged fr...
Beyond Dystopia! is a criticism of life in our current time, the postmodern Anthropocene, and what I am seeking is nothing less than humanity's apotheosis, or, as Voltaire's Candide had it, "le meilleur des mondes possibles," which does not have to be a world without humans, only one with a limited number of humans, doing less.
Recovery is possible! Many of us in society today are functioning reasonably well, while others are struggling. We have a sense that there could be more to our lives: more contentment, more achievement, more love and happiness. Yet, it’s as if there’s voices in our minds holding us back from being all we can be. If you are tired of the limiting voices and thinking and are ready to do some emotional heavy lifting to change your outlook, then The Caged Giant can help you break out of your emotional cage and release the limiting mindset that holds you back. Based on personal experience and practice, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach Manyi Ebot explores trauma and the many ways it limits our capacity for love, fulfillment, and success. With her gentle guidance, you will learn how to heal from past traumas, gain clarity on your experiences, see a clearer vision for your life, and point out the lies of trauma and replace them with the truth. If you yearn to unleash your real potential, The Caged Giant will help you along the path to recovery and living your best life.
A Matter of Self-confidence - Part I is an easy to read, practical self-help book. Within these pages you will find subject matter, real life case studies, inspirational quotes and exercises to help you move forward. This book is written from the perspective of a holistic life coach. It's based on my experiences and my clients' experiences. We're the same as you; we've had self-confidence issues, but now we're all in a happier and healthier place. This book will help lay good foundations to help you develop a more confident future. Self-confidence is one of the best gifts you can ever give yourself. You won't regret it and you won't want to go back to your old ways!
Overcome shame and stigma; and bring a newly felt sense of safety, awareness, and life to your body. If you’ve experienced rape, sexual abuse, molestation, or sexual trauma, you may feel as if you’ve lost your sense of self. You may have difficulty setting boundaries or building satisfying sexual relationships. Sometimes, you may even feel like your body isn’t your own. You aren’t alone. The scars of sexual trauma exist not only in the mind, but also in the body. And in order to heal, build resilience, and discover a sense of hope, you must address both. Drawing on the powerful mind-body techniques of somatic therapy, The Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook is a step-by-step guide to over...
“Full of wisdom as well as practical guidance about how to bring spiritual illumination into the very heart of our humanness.” —John Welwood, author of Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships and Journey of the Heart Our natural state is to love and be loved. From deep within, we’re compelled to seek connection. Yet relationships remain a struggle—even for the most spiritually enlightened among us. Traumatic experiences, insecure attachment, and especially the false but commonly held belief that we are separate, both from each other and from the love we seek, can cause endless problems in relationships. As long as our connections are built on this untruth, lasting love and harmony in...
It’s time to start feeling good about yourself! In this go-to guide, a licensed professional counselor offers 50 quick tips and tools to help you overcome self-doubt, silence your inner critic, be assertive, boost your self-esteem, and embrace your greatness. In our image-obsessed world, it’s easy to compare yourself to friends, celebrities, and models. Social media has skewed our perception of reality by only offering images of people at their best. But the truth is that most people struggle with self-criticism and self-doubt—at least some of the time. So, how can you stop paying attention to your inner critic and start focusing on what makes you truly great? In Embrace Your Greatness...
7 Prayer Strategies for the Crisis in the Middle East Thousands of Christians in the Middle East have been persecuted and martyred by ISIS in the past year alone. The number is increasing. Most believers, seeing the atrocities, long to help--but how? In this timely, compelling book, Lorraine Varela offers powerful spiritual strategies to effect change--no matter where you live. Varela exposes the spirit behind ISIS and provides seven specific prayer directives that release God's character and purposes into the crisis. Real-life stories of supernatural intervention will encourage and remind you to believe that God does indeed have an answer. Discover how to pray effectively about the growing violence of radical Islam. Join other believers--and declare to ISIS that Love is coming after them.