A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidence-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma. In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), the worlds largest and most effective program for healing population-wide trauma, Harvard-trained psychiatrist James Gordon has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations...

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...

As the nation advances in combat technology and personal protective armor, more people are wounded on the battlefield than killed. By far, the most common of all injuries are psychological and the damage of core beliefs which persist long after the horrific experience when the individuals have gone home. The most corrosive impact of horrific emotional trauma is to be found in the spiritual fabric of persons, and that, the condition of PTSD is spiritual...

Have you suffered trauma and think you have PTSD? It's painful to remember the ordeal; It's disabling reliving it over, and over again. Nightmares. Flashbacks. Fear, dread, and anxiety, all invisible jailors. PTSD feels like a life sentence for a crime you've not committed. Breaking out of the prison of pain seems impossible. The way out is being able to talk openly and honestly, but it's not easy or even an option for some. This is an inspirational...

Healing Beyond Trauma is a self-healing guide for anyone who has struggled with anxiety, fear, PTSD, C-PTSD, stress, chronic pain, or other symptoms of a history of trauma or abuse. This guide outlines the healing process and contains interactive worksheets, charts, resources to help further both your understanding and your healing. Find your way to freedom and break out of the bondage your captors placed on you years ago. It is time to walk without...

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...

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...

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...

If you've always wanted to heal from the lasting effects of childhood trauma but struggle with unresolved emotional pain, then keep reading... Are you sick and tired of being haunted by the past? Do you finally want to say goodbye to the pain and discover something that actually works for you? If so, then this book is for you. Trauma enthusiast and author, Callie Parker, provides you with a step-by-step blueprint to emotional healing without...

"NOT ALL WOUNDS ARE VISIBLE" IS A SOBERING REMINDER OF THE INTERNAL DAMAGE OFTEN SUFFERED BY COMBAT VETERANS AND OTHERS WITH PTSD I've had a story to tell from the moment I stepped back onto American soil in 1970 after serving in Vietnam for a year, but it took 50 years for that story to find the right words, and for those words to find their voice. My time in Vietnam ended in 1970, but I carried my experiences home with me like a heavy backpack...