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Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life Kindle Edition

by Jasmin Lee Cori (Author), Robert Scaer (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition

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Psychotherapist and trauma survivor Jasmin Lee Cori offers new insight into trauma-related difficulties (including PTSD, depression, substance abuse), provides self-care tools, candor about therapy and medications, and addresses spiritual issues.

While there are many different approaches to healing trauma, few offer a wide range of perspectives and options. With innovative insight into trauma-related difficulties, Jasmin Lee Cori helps you: Understand trauma and its devastating impacts; Identify symptoms of trauma (dissociation, numbing, etc.) and common mental health problems that stem from trauma; Manage traumatic reactions and memories; Create a more balanced life that supports your recovery; Choose appropriate interventions (therapies, self-help groups, medications and alternatives); Recognize how far you've come in your healing and what you need to keep growing. Complete with exercises, healing stories, points to remember, and resources, this is a perfect companion for anyone seeking to reclaim their life from the devastating impacts of trauma.

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Psychotherapist Cori (The Tao of Contemplation: Re-Sourcing the Inner Life) translates the dark language of trauma in this primer of agony and recovery, with a deep understanding of the tortuous journey many suffer after sexual assault, war, violence and childhood abuse. Skillfully, she avoids the bevy of usual tales of misery found in self-help books on trauma, focusing instead on the resilience of the spirit, regaining control and resuming a renewed life. Very timely and informative, Cori's guidebook includes a long segment on PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), recognizing the emotional and moral conflicts faced by troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and attempting to reintegrate into society. The author offers solid information on types of trauma disorders and stresses the importance of selecting caring, sensitive health practitioners and therapists as critical to speed the healing quest (she offers sensible specifics on choosing a therapist). Concluding with her own story as an incest survivor (based on recovered memories), the book is a compact, knowing work of atonement, grace, compassion and healing. (Nov.)
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A compact, knowing work of atonement, grace, compassion, and healing.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003P9XCT4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books (April 27, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 588 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages

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Jasmin Lee Cori is a psychotherapist based in Boulder, Colorado. She wrote Healing From Trauma from her dual perspective as a therapist and trauma survivor. A gifted self-help writer, she brought similar clinical acumen and insight to her book for under-mothered adults, The Emotionally Absent Mother, now in a second edition.

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Nora

Incredibly Helpful Book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2014

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For me this book has been a trusted friend and guide, there to help me when I got in a bad place with my trauma journey over the last year. I have never written an amazon review but I am so grateful for how this book has helped me I wanted to encourage anyone considering it to buy it. The book is filled with wise reflections, practical advice, grounding reminders--you can just dip into it for review and reorienting whenever you need to. It really is a book not just to read once but to return to time and again as you go through the healing process. Her voice is so great--she always seems both to understand how hard it feels to be in trauma, but also to be confident that with work and help, you will move out of it. Some books on trauma are written from a distanced clinical view--you can feel like an object example of a broken person. This book never makes you feel like that. She's been through it herself, and she writes so it's like you're not alone at all in it. You're just part of a group of people who have had a hard experience and are all finding our way out--and it's possible.

Thank you Jasmin Cori for putting all this material together so it feels manageable, kindly held, and with so many paths to take to help us heal. I especially appreciate the wide range of suggestions--a lot of learning to come out trauma states is about finding different strategies, and there's a real bounty of them here. There's no right way, just many good ones.

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hisgirl94

to being able to speak and help loved ones help the trauma survivors

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016

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I jump around in this book quite a bit, but it's got sections for everybody. From the person who is new to learning their healing and beginning their journey after trauma, to being able to speak and help loved ones help the trauma survivors. This is a great read. I still have not read the whole thing front to back, but it is a book that helps to normalize some of the confusing and scary emotions and symptoms that survivors experience. I, personally, often felt crazy because I was a happy, quiet girl who changed into someone who now feels a lot of anger and has very little patience for when people seem to be using me. I figured, I was broken and that whole shift was just a result of the trauma. While this shift was a result of the trauma, I have discovered that it is very normal and me being able to be assertive instead of passive aggressive (as I was before my traumas) was actually a good thing. Also, I read the portion meant for my loved ones and it helped me be able to put into words how I needed them to help me. Most days, I simply needed a listening ear and someone to see me for who I am, instead of seeing me for the trauma that I have lived though. Being able to now tell my family and friends this has helped us all be able to better navigate the road to my healing without them feeling alienated and it has helped decrease the over all frustration as well.

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kinderteacher

excellent and simple book on every aspect of trauma

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2013

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After a experiencing a very difficult traumatic event in my life, I was in search of a book that could help me understand what to expect in the healing process with out being to complex or laddeled with stories of other peoples trauma. This book was very useful as a resource guide to helping me to navigate through my vast range of emotions in all the fallout that comes after the trauma my life being turned up side down. I also REALLY liked that the emphasis was not all about how I was feeling but instead showed me very clearly that there are actual phisioligical body reactions that occur plus the steps to help yourself heal. It was great to learn that I was not alone in my crazy thoughts and my bodies reactions to such emense stress.
This book was easy to read and insightful especially if you are type of reader that like facts instead of bunches of comforting words about feelings. It covered all topics from body reations to medicine and cognitive theropy.

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Marissa M.

It has great exercises throughout the book to help a person recognize ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2018

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As a psych major this book is accurate and well written for people who have no psychology background. It also does not have detailed first story accounts of trauma and therefor should not be triggering to trauma victims. This book is actually given out at my school for victims of trauma who are trying to heal. It has great exercises throughout the book to help a person recognize and work through their traumas.

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Cindy

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Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023

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If you have trauma you need to get this book!

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Tiffany Clifton

This is a great self help book from a survivor of trauma!

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2022

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So far I love how she can relate to us through her trauma and help me with my trauma as my coach recommends this book for her trauma victims. Again I have a coach and just got some therapy for myself started along with this book and my depression meds and plant based supplements so I’m doing a few things with this book to help me heal from trauma and pain from the past. If you suffer from ptsd symptoms this book and a therapist can help you. This is a great book for people trying to heal from trauma. I highly recommend this book as she was a victim as well and talks to you from a victim to another victim stand point and not a therapist.

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John J. Lukach

A Wonderful Resource!

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2013

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This book is an absolute must read for anyone that has experienced trauma throughout their lives. It is useful both for those who are not yet in therapy, and those who are in therapy as well. Even though in therapy myself, it's nice to hear from someone that has experienced trauma themselves. The book opens your eyes to the things that have most likely been affecting you your whole life that you may not have been aware of. The first half of the book covers the effects of trauma biologically, physically, etc. Then it moves into the second half which provides tools to help you along the journey of healing. It is written in an easy to read format, providing definitions for most technical words, making it easy for someone at any level of mental health knowledge to understand its content. It also holds valuable exercises that can be done to reflect on your current situation and are useful to come back to as time goes on to see how you are progressing. I would DEFINITELY recommend this book!

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Donna M W

Good discriptions of differant kinds of Trauma

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2013

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The descriptions and symptoms are very good. Not really enough practical info hands on help to healing. Seems you mostly have to go through some kind of counselor. Who can afford that these days?

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Jane C

Excellent guide for healing trauma

Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2019

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This book is so very well written. It is a methodical, step by step guide to understanding how trauma in your life can affect your immune system, how trauma creates symptoms such as nervousness and anxiety. The author has been through trauma herself, and healed it. She provides resources and guides on how to find the help you need to resolve your own trauma and recover your own life. One of the best books I've ever read. I highly recommend it!

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Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2018

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I don’t write reviews but being a short way into this book I have had to write one. It is like it is written for me, about me. If you are having trauma related symptoms and trying to piece it together -this book is for you. Having read many books and reading matter about trauma, dissociation and living with the effects of the abuse, this book is by far the most, helpful, well written one. It takes a very complex issue with complex devastating effects and helps you make sense of it. This book is a must for any sexual abuse survivors!

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Mary Waterman

The trauma after the suicide of a child.

Reviewed in Australia on July 26, 2015

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It was very helpful and reonsonated with how I have felt. I highly recommend the book. It made me feel that I want going crazy.

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THIS LADY GETS IT!

Reviewed in Canada on February 12, 2020

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This woman is so in tune. She writes in a way that was speaking too the most inner parts of me and I'm not even half way through the book. THANK YOU PRECIOUS ONE!

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Grace

... am half way thorugh this book and would highly recommend it. All other books on this subject were ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2014

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I am half way thorugh this book and would highly recommend it. All other books on this subject were pretty vague and just said things like getting in touch with your spirituality and mediatating etc. This book is written in clear, down-to-earth language, clearly discusses exactly how your body shows physical signs of trauma, and why. It is written in such a way that despite the subject, it is not sad, depressing, falsly positive (like many books on this subject) or triggering. It offers helpful small questionaires and exercises to do (if you like) to help you get through it, and offers practical and real-life ways to begin your healing process. This book is like having a therapist there with you, and is really practical and unique from all other books I've tried.

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