How We Grow Through What We Go Through
Self-Compassion Practices for Post-Traumatic Growth
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Turn your everyday experiences into a source of strength with the easy-to-learn practices in this uplifting guide to post-traumatic growth.
Trauma pervades every aspect of our lives, particularly in recent years between climate change, social justice issues, the coronavirus pandemic, and more. But the truth is that post-traumatic growth, rather than post-traumatic stress, is not only possible but probable. In this book, you’ll discover the conditions and compassionate practices that make growth and resilience possible, including:
• How to regulate your nervous system by regulating your breath and body
• Trauma-informed self-compassion practices that make you more resilient to the world around you
• Skills to set boundaries to aid in your healing
• Dozens of other ways to turn your difficult experiences toward growth
Simple and to the point, each chapter offers practices, self-assessments, enlightening science facts, and advice for the real world—perfect for reading a page or two after an exhausting day or sharing with others when they need a lift.
No one gets a pass from life’s challenges. The good news is, we are hardwired to turn them into a source of strength. Turn to this book anytime you need to find out How We Grow Through What We Go Through.
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Clinical psychologist Willard (The In-Between Book) lays out strategies for recovering after trauma in this compassionate manual. "We can allow traumas to push us toward more sickness, sadness, fear, and division—or we can use them to water the seeds of our growth and development," he contends. He notes that the memory of trauma can prime the body to respond to threats in four ways—fight, flee, freeze, or give up—and suggests that readers calm their nervous system by adopting the mindfulness pose of sitting upright and holding their hands over their heart. Explaining how to develop healthy habits, he extols the benefits of taking walks on regulating emotion and recommends refraining from multitasking when eating to foster a more deliberate relationship with food. Trauma survivors' inner critics tend to be their worst enemies, the author posits, and he urges readers to exercise self-compassion by setting boundaries in difficult relationships, cultivating resilient friendships, and acknowledging how hard it was to live through trauma. Willard has a knack for describing psychological jargon in lay terms, and the uncomplicated guidance is easy to implement (one mindfulness exercise calls for listening to one's breaths as if they were ocean waves). This approachable manual has some insightful tips.
