Childhood Ptsd

My latest book is a guide for psychotherapists and other helpers to learn my multidimensional approach to effectively treating the childhood trauma that is commonly at the roots of Complex PTSD. It can deeply aid therapists to mend the damage and arrested development that survivors experienced as traumatized children in the "care" of abusive and/or neglectful parents or other caretakers.

Break the silent cycle of childhood trauma and heal your nervous system with tools for Complex PTSD recovery. If you look highly functioning on the outside but battle chronic anxiety, emotional numbness, or exhausted people-pleasing, you are not broken. This gentle, affirming audio experience...

Heal What Childhood Left Behind—A Gentle 28-Day CBT Program to Calm Anxiety, Ease Complex PTSD Symptoms, and Rebuild Emotional Safety Do you ever feel like you’re doing your best… but your body and mind still react like the danger never really ended? Hypervigilance. Overthinking. Emotional...

Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences – and how healing must begin with a shift to asking 'What happened to you?' rather than 'What’s wrong with you?'. Through wide-ranging and often deeply...

In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? Child...

A Somatic, Regulation-First Guide for Therapists Treating Developmental Trauma—with foreword by Waking the Tiger author Peter Levine When a client’s trauma began before they had words—in the womb, in infancy, in their earliest relationships—talk therapy alone often can’t reach it...

Overcome childhood trauma and PTSD to finally calm your overwhelmed, hypervigilant nervous system. For high-functioning adults who feel chronically on edge or silently battle invisible emotional aftershocks, this compassionate listen offers a deeply safe space for recovery. Stop mistaking your...

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are “An important course-correction to what is now received wisdom about trauma and how to treat it.” ―Wall Street Journal After 9/11, mental health...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life “Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori...

Stolen Childhoods: Thriving After Abuse focuses on how survivors of childhood abuse can finally break their silence and begin the process of recovery by understanding the impact their abuse history has on their adulthood. Filled with real life client conversations, along with her own experiences as a patient, this work helps listeners stop reliving past abuse and thrive in their recovery. It demonstrates the tremendous hope that can come from having a witness, and feeling heard and believed.

Embark on a journey of self-discovery, healing and inner transformation with the new and updated smash-hit TikTok sensation and million-copy international bestseller. Are you ready to embark on a powerful journey of self-discovery, healing and inner transformation? The Shadow Work Journal is an...

Healing for the “Unmothered Child” The pain of abandonment, both real and metaphorical, can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience. Warming the Stone Child investigates the abandoned child archetype in world myths and cultures to find clues about the process of healing the unmothered...

“The self-help queen of TikTok” – The Atlantic Step out of the shadows and join the millions around the world who have learned to face their fears and love themselves in this essential companion to the bestselling, viral phenomenon The Shadow Work Journal. Unlock your true potential with...

An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma...

"With Deep Liberation, our sacred calling is made accessible to all who are willing to listen for it within themselves." —adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism To create a world free from oppression, we each have to face the ways that we maintain toxic social systems within...

From the leading expert on adult children of addicts, an essential guide to healing wounds of growing up with addiction and family dysfunction “Required reading for understanding the full picture of recovery, repair, and reclaiming our true selves.”—Aimie Apigian, MD, author of The Biology...

When she ran away as a young war bride, she was cut off from her family forever . . . or so she believed. Decades later, maybe the only way to move on is to go home. Ginny Pickering Boyden can’t wait for her last day of work, when she’ll be free to pursue a lifelong ambition through a master...

An innovative somatic and attachment-based treatment for working with children and adolescents who suffer from complex trauma and neglect "[This] is a ground-breaking new approach to treating traumatized children, based on the combination of keen clinical observation, sensory integration, and a...

Un revolucionario libro sobre el trauma, que ofrece a los lectores un esquema de cinco etapas para alcanzar el crecimiento postraumático, similar a las cinco etapas del duelo de Kübler-Ross. El trauma siempre ha sido parte de la experiencia humana, y los eventos traumáticos —tanto físicos...

‘I was gripped’ Louise Jensen, author of The Fall 'This book is going to be one of my best reads this year' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'TREMENDOUS!!!! Who saw that ending coming?!' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Teenage girls can do some pretty awful things… Lexie and Amber used to share...