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Author
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Giving voice to the real-life stories of Black millennials and younger adults, Sheila Wise Rowe goes beyond their struggles to point towards hope, joy, and healing. Drawing on years of counseling trauma and abuse survivors, she provides stories, reflections, and tools for Black readers of all ages as they journey toward healing from the barriers affecting them, their children, and their communities"--
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ash does not remember the day she fell out of her friend Solomon's tree house, but ever since that day Solomon has retreated into a dark fantasy world and Ash believes the key to saving him is recovering her lost memory.
"A crucial, genre-bending tale, equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness, about the life-saving power of friendship. Solomon and Ash both experienced a traumatic event when they were twelve. Ash lost all memory of that event when...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"One of the first things you need to ask is, how did you survive this? This is amazing that you're still here. It's amazing that you still have the guts to go on with your life. What is allowing you to function? What are you good at? What gives you comfort?" Bessel van der Kolk. Research undertaken for the DSM-IV revealed that survivors of repeated and severe childhood trauma generally experience a common set of problems as adults. This video series...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A hands-on resource for understanding and working through challenging family dynamics. Family can be a source of connection, and a source of conflict. In this exercise-filled workbook, licensed therapist and bestselling relationship expert Nedra Glover Tawwab offers powerful insights along with thought-provoking questions to help you unpack what’s really going on -- and express your needs and expectations in a healthier way going forward....
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As copastor of one of the nation's largest megachurches, Hope Carpenter had perfected the roles of supportive wife, good mother, devoted worship leader, and dutiful homemaker. But inside, she was secretly ashamed, sad, and afraid. She didn't know who she was, and she didn't know how to ask for help without bringing down the whole façade. A series of bad choices led to multiple affairs; her husband kicked her out and announced from the pulpit of their...
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Language
English
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest...
87) After the forest
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Language
English
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"After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isn't happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them." Bessel van der Kolk. In this program, Bessel van der Kolk and others examine how dissociation functions as a defense against overwhelming stress, how the mind processes...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City's South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a rundown house in a community that is quickly changing from an Italian enclave of mobsters to a haven for Haitian immigrants, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay--"my mother's house"--and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A five-point plan to usher you through heartache and toward a stronger, healthier place. "I know how to kill someone and get away with it." The words spoken by her father when Melissa was a teen haunt her to this day. Two years later, after confessing that he was the serial killer nationally known as the Happy Face Killer, Keith Jesperson was arrested for the murder of eight women. The pain, guilt, and shame that followed her father's conviction...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"While the therapeutic relationship is very important, and an important substrate to the patient doing his or her work, in some ways we may have to be more like plumbers than like priests. And the task of the plumber is to unplug the toilet, not to have a warm relationship with the person whose toilet is plugged. And so maybe the task of the therapist is to provide the patient the skills that allow them to manage their lives." Bessel van der Kolk....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later-long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the crimes perpetrated against him have run out-the long shadow of Dylan's trauma still looms over the fragile...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Description
Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate strategies for rehabilitation, a child psychiatrist explains what exactly happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress--and reveals the measures that can be taken to ease a child's pain and help him grow into a healthy adult.
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In their twenty-year marriage, Mike and Kristin Berry have had the joy of adopting eight children and fostering twenty-three. In Securely Attached, they offer practical insights, supported by therapeutic and medical facts, so all parents can better care for the children in their home who have experienced past trauma"--
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sydney's spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her eleven-year old son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all. But when she opens her front door and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel. She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Though many of us can point to patterns of brokenness in our lives, we don't know why they're there. No matter how hard we work, we can't seem to outrun the very things that break our hearts. That's because our everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds. In Why Am I Like This? seminary-trained, licensed trauma therapist Kobe Campbell helps us understand why it's so hard to break these patterns as she offers us a deeper understanding of...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid....A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about...
99) Who you were before trauma: use your imagination and reclaim buried strengths to heal from within
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"In "Who You Were Before Trauma: Use Your Imagination and Reclaim Buried Strengths to Heal from Within," Reddemann-a leading psychotherapist in Germany with over three decades of trauma therapy experience-illustrates the Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy (PITT) method, a three-phase treatment model that incorporates imagination work at each stage of treatment: before, during, and after confrontation"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer--Childhood Disrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them. Your biography becomes your biology. The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults, it also affects our physical health, longevity, and overall wellbeing....
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