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It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD Kindle Edition

by Mary Giuliani (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Your Struggle With Food, Weight, Drugs or Alcohol Is Not Your Fault,
It's A Normal Response To Surviving An Abnormal Childhood

Even though Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life - behind closed doors, she still struggled and wondered...

  • Why she had so few close friends and had difficulty finding a fulfilling, romantic relationship
  • Why she still struggled with food, sleep, & caffeine
  • Why she couldn't find the flow and passion she longed for in her career
  • Why, even though she was in long-term recovery with food and substances and had maintained a 160lb weight loss for several decades, she felt the need to hide these parts of her past from others


Finally, in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving these, and her past addictions to food, drugs, and alcohol was a condition known as Complex PTSD (CPTSD), a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home.

This discovery sent Mary on a five-year journey where she researched leading experts in the fields of complex trauma and addiction. She read dozens of books about complex PTSD and the adverse childhood experiences study (ACE Study.) She also studied thought leaders in the fields of neuroscience and developmental psychology. She read countless books about addiction, emotional trauma, childhood trauma in adults, food addiction, and addiction recovery.

Join Mary as she experiences one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learns that CPTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, addiction recovery, relationships, career, and health, and learn what she did to heal.

In A Blending of Memoir, Science-Based Research & CPTSD Workbook, You'll Learn:

  • You're not alone; you're not bad or defective; it's not your fault, your symptoms are normal, and you can heal
  • How to recover with a proven, step-by-step CPTSD Workbook that compassionately guides you in healing from common CPTSD symptoms such as difficulty with close relationships, shame, guilt, anxiety, depression, addiction, and feeling defective and unworthy of love and belonging
  • Gain access to a menu of 36 evidence-based body, brain, and mind CPTSD therapies and practices to heal the root cause of your symptoms
  • How to recover from your struggle with food, weight, drugs, or alcohol with the support of the step-by-step Addiction Recovery Workbook
  • How to stay focused and on track with practical worksheets, quizzes, and questionnaires


You Can End Your Struggle With Food, Weight, Drugs, Alcohol, or Close Relationships Starting Today By Clicking on Buy Now With One Click at the top of this page

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"It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol should be very helpful for anyone who has or is struggling with any type of addiction to understand that their addictions are not their fault, and by healing their trauma, they'll heal the root cause of their suffering."

-Pete Walker, MA, LMFT, leading trauma therapist & author of "Complex PTSD: From Surviving To Thriving"

"Mary Giuliani offers her readers compassion, guidance, and hope as she peels back the layers of her journey through overcoming trauma. With each chapter, she disrupts the status quo's understanding of how we think, behave, and heal by offering approachable science-based fundamentals we should have all learned about in school.

This book explains how addiction, disordered eating, relationship issues, and more are linked to a common root cause of injury and walks the reader through a manageable process through which true healing can occur. As a psychologist and fellow human, I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about or is currently on the path to recovery."

-Andi Fetzner, PsyD, Trauma Therapist & Educator

"Mary Giuliani's touching memoir of her own struggle with substance abuse, obesity, and complex trauma exposes the historical lack of awareness the mental health community has regarding C-PTSD, which has caused people like her to be misdiagnosed with multiple labels from the DSM and delay the ability to seek proper trauma treatment. Her book follows the courageous story of a woman that found deeper addiction recovery when her childhood trauma was named and acknowledged."

-Melissa McManis, LCSW, Sexual Trauma Therapist, Southern California

"This book is a one-stop shop for people who think they may have or who know they have trauma. Mary Giuliani has done the homework to read and share some of the most important information from the best books on the topic. Her story? She's lived with CPTSD, and she is here to help you survive the pitfalls and thrive with newly-identified superpowers that we actually can gain as the result of our experiences.

Best of all, she shares her story with humor and humility, grace, and ultimately what we all need and can learn from her: a lifesaving and affirming dose of self-compassion."

- Carey Smith Sipp, Director of Strategic Partnerships, PACEsconnection.com and author of "The TurnAround Mom"


"Brimming with science-based research and a plethora of resources, Mary Giuliani's book is a lighthouse nurturing those suffering in darkness with her guideposts supporting their healing journey. A must-read for clinicians, therapists, cross-sector folx, and most importantly, YOU."

-Dana R. Brown, PACEs Science Statewide Facilitator, Organizational Liaison, PACEsconnection.com

"This is such an important book for anyone struggling to have the life or love they want -- but especially necessary and empowering for LGBTQ women since our stories are so rarely told. Thank you, for sharing your healing journey so openly and including the discussion of homophobia as a source of trauma that we can and must heal from. You are a role model, and this book is full of information, guidance, wisdom, heart, and courage."

-Ruth L. Schwartz, Ph.D., Director, ConsciousGirlfriend.com

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"It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcoholshould be very helpful for anyone who has or is struggling with any type of addiction to understand that their addictions are not their fault, and by healing their trauma, they'll heal the root cause of their suffering."

—Pete Walker, MA, LMFT, Leading trauma expert and author of Complex PTSD: From Surviving To Thriving"


 Your Struggle With Food, Weight, or Substances Is Not Your Fault
 It's A Normal Response To Surviving An Abnormal Childhood


Even though Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life— behind closed doors, she still struggled and wondered...

  • Why she had so few close friends and had difficulty finding a fulfilling, romantic relationship
  • Why she still struggled with food, sleep, and caffeine
  • Why she couldn't find the flow and passion she longed for in her career
  • Why, even though she was in long-term recovery with food and substances and had maintained a healthy weight for several decades, she felt the need to hide these parts of her past from others
Finally, in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving these, and her past struggles with food, obesity, and substances was a condition known as Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)—a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home.

This discovery sent Mary on a five-year journey where she researched leading experts in the fields of C-PTSD, neuroscience, developmental psychology, adverse childhood experiences, and addiction medicine to find the most effective treatments for optimal healing.

Join Mary as she experiences one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learns that C-PTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, recovery, relationships, career, and health—and learn what she did to heal

Witness Mary go from believing she was weak, a failure, hopeless, and unworthy due to her struggle with food, weight, substances, and relationships to finally ending these battles by healing the trauma driving them.

Discover how Mary found compassion for what happened to her, released the shame over how she coped, and learned to accept herself just as she is. Learn how healing trauma opened the door for her to forge healthy close relationships and finally find her purpose in helping fellow survivors heal and thrive.

In This Blending of Memoir, Science-Based Research & Practical Healing Guide, You'll Learn

  • You're not alone; you're not bad or defective; it's not your fault, your symptoms are normal, and you can heal.
  • Children can develop as much trauma being raised by parents who chronically fight, are emotionally invalidating, are addicted, anxious, depressed, or who divorce as those who were sexually or physically abused.
  • C-PTSD is relational trauma, explaining why relationships with spouses, family, and friends are difficult & how to heal.
  • Why talk therapy, spirituality, 12-step & personal growth programs can't completely heal trauma & what can.
  • How bullying, homophobia, and shame-based religion can cause significant trauma, and how to heal.
  • How Mary turned her pain into purpose, helping fellow survivors heal, and how you can too.

End Your Struggle By Healing The Root Cause With A Step-By-Step Complex PTSD Workbook and Addiction Recovery Healing Guide

  • Receive compassionate guidance to heal, recover and thrive through practical worksheets and questionnaires.
  • Access a 36-item menu of evidence-based, trauma-informed therapies and recovery resources that have been the most effective for Mary in healing from C-PTSD and recovering with substances, food, weight, and codependency.

Mary Giuliani. has a twenty-year background as a Master Certified Coach and is a keynote speaker, author, and seminar leader specializing in complex trauma recovery and resilience building. She lives in Southern California with her partner.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BTNRG3YM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wise Tribe Media; 1st edition (February 21, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 15996 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 741 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Mary Giuliani has a 25-year background as a Master Certified Coach, and is a keynote speaker, author, and seminar leader specializing in supporting survivors in healing from complex trauma and achieving long-term recovery with food, weight, and substances. She has a passion for supporting survivors in learning how to connect with themselves and others in healthy, fulfilling relationships and how to turn their pain into power and purpose.

As a person in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, substances and co-dependency, she is a fierce advocate for ending the stigma of addiction, obesity, and mental health disorders by providing science-based evidence of their direct link to ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) that result in survivors developing complex PTSD. She lives in Southern California with her partner.

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Why Did Mary Write "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD"?

Her book's main message is:

Your Struggle With Food, Weight, or Substances Is Not Your Fault, It's A Normal Response To Surviving An Abnormal Childhood

Although Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life— behind closed doors, she still struggled and wondered…

• Why she had so few close friends and had difficulty finding a fulfilling, romantic relationship

• Why she still struggled with food, sleep, and caffeine

• Why she couldn't find the flow and passion she longed for in her career

• Why, even though she was in long-term recovery with food and substances and had maintained a 160lb weight loss for

several decades, she felt the need to hide these parts of her past from others

Finally, in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving these, and her past struggles with food, obesity, and substances was a condition known as Complex PTSD (CPTSD), a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home.

This discovery sent Mary on a five-year journey where she researched leading experts in the trauma and recovery fields who authored books about complex PTSD and the adverse childhood experiences study (ACE Study.) In order to find the most effective treatments for healing trauma, she studied the work of thought leaders in the fields of CPTSD, neuroscience, and developmental psychology and through books about addiction, childhood trauma in adults, emotional trauma, addiction to food, and addiction recovery.

Join Mary as she experiences one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learns that CPTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, recovery, relationships, career, and health—and learn what she did to heal.

Witness Mary go from believing she was weak, a failure, hopeless, and unworthy due to her struggle with food, weight, substances, and relationships to finally ending these battles by healing the trauma driving them. Discover how she found compassion for what happened to her, released the shame over how she coped, and learned to accept herself just as she is. Learn how healing trauma opened the door for her to forge healthy relationships and finally find her purpose in helping fellow survivors heal and thrive.

In This Blending of Memoir, Science-Based Research & Compassionate CPTSD Workbook, You'll Learn:

• You're not alone; you're not bad or defective; it's not your fault, your symptoms are normal, and you can heal

• Access the step-by-step CPTSD workbook that Mary used to end her struggle with alcohol, drugs, and food,

including what she's done to maintain a 160lb weight loss for over two decades.

• Stay on track with your recovery with the included CPTSD workbook

• Gain clarity and heal through worksheets, quizzes & questionnaires

• Gain access to a 36-item menu of evidence-based trauma healing therapies and addiction recovery resources proven to

facilitate optimal trauma healing and recovery from difficulty with relationships, alcohol, drugs, food or weight.

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How To Keep In Touch With Mary:

https://marygiuliani.net/

https://marygiuliani.net/free-newsletter/

https://www.facebook.com/Marygcoach

https://www.youtube.com/@MaryGiuliani

https://www.instagram.com/Mary.Giuliani/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/MaryGiuliani

https://twitter.com/MaryMGiuliani

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This book is a one-stop shop for people who have, or think they have, C-PTSD.
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This book is a one-stop shop for people who have, or think they have, C-PTSD.
Mary Giuliani has created a healing memoir, workbook, reference guide for one of the least understood buzz-terms of the day: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her life is a definition of this term, as she has severe, constant trauma every day of her young life as a child. The dark secret her mother carried explains a LOT. When that was revealed, suddenly it made sense as to her mother's alcoholic rage and resentment of Giuliani's father. He made some not-great choices that started and then amplified the family's toxic stress. Young Mary Giuliani bore the brunt of this, finding comfort in food, gaining weight, and then being constantly judged and needled by her mother, bullied by her classmates, and steeped in shame and self-loathing. How the heck Giuliani survived as an overweight lesbian in a Catholic high school in the homophobic 1970s? It's a testimony to the fact the Universe had a higher purpose for Giuliani, which she is acting upon! She's done the weight roller-coaster, the addiction to substances, the relationship issues. And then when constant back pain was overwhelming, in part, I think, due to relationship issues (the body finds a place to put that stress and is always telling us something!) Guiliani's self-help memoir is chock-full of the best information from the most notable experts on C-PTSD of our time. That they all willingly allowed her to use their quotes (she does reference each and every one) tells me they are all taking her seriously. After all, she put five years of her life into researching, writing, living, editing, producing, and bringing this very important guide to the world. I believe it is a must for these troubled times when so many people are walking around sick, addicted, overweight from binging, not really present. That is often what untreated CPTSD looks like. Guiliani's guide will be a great support to individuals and practitioners alike. It needs to be handed to medical school students from Day One to as a guide to empathy and "how the body keeps the score." Great work, Mary Giuliani. This book is going to change lives, giving people who've suffered for years the healing "aha" moment of discovering that it really isn't the alcohol, drugs, food, or lack of self-will. It is the pain of embodied trauma killing us sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but keeping us from the vibrant life Giuliani lives now as someone who has found ways to heal from what is likely the biggest epidemic of our time.
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Susan P. Jundanian
5.0 out of 5 stars Hope and Healing for Sufferers of Childhood Trauma
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2023
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The author is a gifted storyteller who recounts in harrowing detail the multiple traumas of her childhood and her ensuing adult struggles with food, marijuana, and alcohol. Her vivid descriptions and extraordinary candor would make her story compelling reading if offered only as a memoir. But the book transcends mere autobiography as the writer explains her unfolding realization that the root cause of her addictions is complex PTSD born of her painful childhood. As she describes the steps and missteps of her journey toward healing, she offers a compassionate and detailed guide for others. She cites a vast array of research and provides an extensive resource list for those embarking on their own journeys. Her questionnaires and guides to specifying goals and action steps will be useful for readers who are trauma survivors or want to help trauma survivors as well as those who need a nudge to get “unstuck” or simply want to improve their health and relationships.
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Michelle R
5.0 out of 5 stars A Book I Never Knew I Needed to Read
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023
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I bought this book solely with the intention of gaining insight on how childhood trauma affects *other* people and how that can cause the addictions that creep into their lives. What I didn’t expect to learn was how many ways trauma can affect each of us! I always thought childhood trauma entailed solely physical or sexual abuse, but Mary Giuliani succinctly identifies the many ways in which our childhood upbringing and experiences affect us. I learned broadly about human responses to trauma, and I more importantly identified some of my own. The author not only supplies detailed scientific data to show how trauma affects our minds and bodies, but also offers concrete methods to identify and heal our own trauma through step-by-step processes and questionnaires. Her compassionate approach and sharing of her own personal experiences make this book especially relatable. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to have a better understanding of how Complex-PTSD affects each of us – and more importantly, how to heal.
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Lynn Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars The wisdom of trauma and science told through stories.
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2023
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Mary has woven relatable stories with the deep wisdom of hope filled recovery and evidence based science and this is a powerful book. I have gained important new understandings about myself that have seemed illusive for so long.💕
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D. Caton
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent insights on Addiction and Trauma
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024
Many excellent insights on how trauma frequently underlies addiction. I learned the most about specific approaches to weight loss.
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Holly
5.0 out of 5 stars An extremely in-depth, cohesive, easy to digest and practical exploration of complex PTSD
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
As someone who has read All The Trauma Books, I was lucky enough to be gifted a copy, and even luckier that i took the time to crack it open. Mary has written from a first-person perspective the book I wish existed when I started my own journey untangling my trauma and addictions and eating disorder. It is a bible. Get it.
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Carey Smith Sipp
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a one-stop shop for people who have, or think they have, C-PTSD.
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023
Mary Giuliani has created a healing memoir, workbook, reference guide for one of the least understood buzz-terms of the day: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her life is a definition of this term, as she has severe, constant trauma every day of her young life as a child. The dark secret her mother carried explains a LOT. When that was revealed, suddenly it made sense as to her mother's alcoholic rage and resentment of Giuliani's father. He made some not-great choices that started and then amplified the family's toxic stress. Young Mary Giuliani bore the brunt of this, finding comfort in food, gaining weight, and then being constantly judged and needled by her mother, bullied by her classmates, and steeped in shame and self-loathing. How the heck Giuliani survived as an overweight lesbian in a Catholic high school in the homophobic 1970s? It's a testimony to the fact the Universe had a higher purpose for Giuliani, which she is acting upon! She's done the weight roller-coaster, the addiction to substances, the relationship issues. And then when constant back pain was overwhelming, in part, I think, due to relationship issues (the body finds a place to put that stress and is always telling us something!) Guiliani's self-help memoir is chock-full of the best information from the most notable experts on C-PTSD of our time. That they all willingly allowed her to use their quotes (she does reference each and every one) tells me they are all taking her seriously. After all, she put five years of her life into researching, writing, living, editing, producing, and bringing this very important guide to the world. I believe it is a must for these troubled times when so many people are walking around sick, addicted, overweight from binging, not really present. That is often what untreated CPTSD looks like. Guiliani's guide will be a great support to individuals and practitioners alike. It needs to be handed to medical school students from Day One to as a guide to empathy and "how the body keeps the score." Great work, Mary Giuliani. This book is going to change lives, giving people who've suffered for years the healing "aha" moment of discovering that it really isn't the alcohol, drugs, food, or lack of self-will. It is the pain of embodied trauma killing us sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but keeping us from the vibrant life Giuliani lives now as someone who has found ways to heal from what is likely the biggest epidemic of our time.
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Carey Smith Sipp
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a one-stop shop for people who have, or think they have, C-PTSD.
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023
Mary Giuliani has created a healing memoir, workbook, reference guide for one of the least understood buzz-terms of the day: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her life is a definition of this term, as she has severe, constant trauma every day of her young life as a child. The dark secret her mother carried explains a LOT. When that was revealed, suddenly it made sense as to her mother's alcoholic rage and resentment of Giuliani's father. He made some not-great choices that started and then amplified the family's toxic stress. Young Mary Giuliani bore the brunt of this, finding comfort in food, gaining weight, and then being constantly judged and needled by her mother, bullied by her classmates, and steeped in shame and self-loathing. How the heck Giuliani survived as an overweight lesbian in a Catholic high school in the homophobic 1970s? It's a testimony to the fact the Universe had a higher purpose for Giuliani, which she is acting upon! She's done the weight roller-coaster, the addiction to substances, the relationship issues. And then when constant back pain was overwhelming, in part, I think, due to relationship issues (the body finds a place to put that stress and is always telling us something!) Guiliani's self-help memoir is chock-full of the best information from the most notable experts on C-PTSD of our time. That they all willingly allowed her to use their quotes (she does reference each and every one) tells me they are all taking her seriously. After all, she put five years of her life into researching, writing, living, editing, producing, and bringing this very important guide to the world. I believe it is a must for these troubled times when so many people are walking around sick, addicted, overweight from binging, not really present. That is often what untreated CPTSD looks like. Guiliani's guide will be a great support to individuals and practitioners alike. It needs to be handed to medical school students from Day One to as a guide to empathy and "how the body keeps the score." Great work, Mary Giuliani. This book is going to change lives, giving people who've suffered for years the healing "aha" moment of discovering that it really isn't the alcohol, drugs, food, or lack of self-will. It is the pain of embodied trauma killing us sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but keeping us from the vibrant life Giuliani lives now as someone who has found ways to heal from what is likely the biggest epidemic of our time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More than a memoir
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2023
I can relate to so much in this book! I, too, used food very early in life to cope with my abusive parents, and was also bullied and shamed about my weight and body by both family and peers in my childhood. I was parentified early, and was so desperate to be the perfect daughter- convinced that if I could love someone enough they would change. This book is a good resource for someone new to the idea that their addiction is caused by childhood trauma. I've been in the healing process for a few years and read almost all the books referenced in this memoir, and something I like about Mary Giuliani's book is that there are so many great ideas included in one book. It's got a good mix of lots of healing practices, worksheets, and examples of just how much your childhood trauma will effect every aspect of your life. I liked that she included stories from her childhood and it wasn't just a clinical take on what CPTSD is. She is relatable, she struggled with real issues, and she isn't ashamed to share her journey. While I cannot relate to every instance she went through, it felt like a good friend sharing their experience and steering me in the right direction of how I can heal, and where to start. I would recommend this book to anyone struggling with their childhood trauma.
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Rachel
2.0 out of 5 stars Very basic and over simplistic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2023
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Dissapointingly over simplistic with only a scant knowledge of CPTSD which you'd be best to read first hand - the author quotes the same book repeatedly. This touched the surface and I found it hard to empathise with the author's own trauma story. There are much better books on this subject and I would not reccomend this one.
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