He takes a journey from healing to understanding. The novel plunges into friendship, trauma, love, and the complexity of human relationships. Why Read It:If you want a book that is quite emotional and heart-wrenching, go for it. A Little Life will linger with you even after the last pag...
[I have this book and like it, but think it too long (at 374 pages) and detailed for many clients to use on their own. Some will like it very much, and relevant excerpts may be useful for others.] Judith Herman's (1992)Trauma and Recoverybook (Basic Books) was favorably mentioned ...
The kind of trauma that any child would go through being forced to endure a world that is unfamiliar, lives by different values to what she has been brought up, where no one speaks English; well I can only imagine. The only ray of hope that shone for her then was none other than San...
The therapeutic emphasis of storybooks can be adjusted to take into account a child's life story, verbal capacity, level of anxiety, and traumatic hyperarousal. The creation of storybooks is an active process that embraces important aspects of trauma-specific interventions, including expression of ...
“there’s nothing like trauma to change one’s reading habits”, and she learned that Maggie had copied a passage fromBroken Openand kept it on an index card in her car. In that passage, Elizabeth recounts that a psychic told her: “It is time for you to answer the call of your ...
“Wataru Misaka was an active child, growing up in Utah as a second-generation Japanese American, or Nisei. His father taught him the Japanese word gambatte, meaning to do your best, and Wat took the lesson to heart, pushing himself to work hard in school, on the basketball court, and ...
In this powerful novel that explodes the stigma around child sexual abuse and leavens an intense tale with compassion and humor, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley tells a story about two sisters, linked by love and trauma, who must find their own voices before they can find their way back to each ...
In this powerful novel that explodes the stigma around child sexual abuse and leavens an intense tale with compassion and humor, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley tells a story about two sisters, linked by love and trauma, who must find their own voices before they can find their way back to each ...
Middle of the Night is a cocktail of suburban suspense and dark forest mystery, shaken not stirred. It’s a psychological deep-dive, threading childhood traumas with the here and now. You’re in for a multi-layered mystery that’s as much about lost memories as it is about lost people....
Gabor Mate has a unique world view that projects physiological and emotional treatment of childhood traumas on the first place. The book isn't focusing on ADHD but the real causes behind ADHD which is stress. The author states that ADHD is a form of reaction of childhood traumatic events sin...