8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook

This workbook will help readers identify, assess, and celebrate the resources they already have as well as offer new strategies to add to their personalized trauma recovery toolbox. The wealth of activities are developed from, and informed by, the authors' cultural experience and are supported by neuroscience, psychology, and somatic psychology. The variety of exercises within each of the eight keys differ in their approach, offering explorations of creativity, movement, mindful awareness, nature connection, visualization, and writing. Eight keys that are integral to safe trauma recovery are explored through activities aimed at helping readers feel safe, stable, and in control of their mind, body, and life in the aftermath of trauma. They key topics cover: plotting your course with mindfulness; beginning with your epilogue; knowing that remembering is not required; stopping flashbacks; reconciling forgiveness and shame; taking smaller steps for bigger leaps; getting moving; and making lemonade. The workbook is useful as a stand-alone volume and as a companion to the original 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery.

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8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook

This workbook will help readers identify, assess, and celebrate the resources they already have as well as offer new strategies to add to their personalized trauma recovery toolbox. The wealth of activities are developed from, and informed by, the authors' cultural experience and are supported by neuroscience, psychology, and somatic psychology. The variety of exercises within each of the eight keys differ in their approach, offering explorations of creativity, movement, mindful awareness, nature connection, visualization, and writing. Eight keys that are integral to safe trauma recovery are explored through activities aimed at helping readers feel safe, stable, and in control of their mind, body, and life in the aftermath of trauma. They key topics cover: plotting your course with mindfulness; beginning with your epilogue; knowing that remembering is not required; stopping flashbacks; reconciling forgiveness and shame; taking smaller steps for bigger leaps; getting moving; and making lemonade. The workbook is useful as a stand-alone volume and as a companion to the original 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery.

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8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook

8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook

8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook

8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook

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Overview

This workbook will help readers identify, assess, and celebrate the resources they already have as well as offer new strategies to add to their personalized trauma recovery toolbox. The wealth of activities are developed from, and informed by, the authors' cultural experience and are supported by neuroscience, psychology, and somatic psychology. The variety of exercises within each of the eight keys differ in their approach, offering explorations of creativity, movement, mindful awareness, nature connection, visualization, and writing. Eight keys that are integral to safe trauma recovery are explored through activities aimed at helping readers feel safe, stable, and in control of their mind, body, and life in the aftermath of trauma. They key topics cover: plotting your course with mindfulness; beginning with your epilogue; knowing that remembering is not required; stopping flashbacks; reconciling forgiveness and shame; taking smaller steps for bigger leaps; getting moving; and making lemonade. The workbook is useful as a stand-alone volume and as a companion to the original 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781324020127
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 12/13/2022
Series: 8 Keys to Mental Health
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, is an internationally recognized PTSD specialist and best–selling author of seven books translated into twenty languages. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Vanessa Bear, MSc, UKCP–reg., is a psychotherapist and author, additionally trained in somatic trauma therapy, ecotherapy, and yoga. Vanessa lives in the Lake District, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Key 1 Plotting Your Course With Mindfulness 1

First, Check in

Somatic Markers

Mindful Gauge

Your Mindful Gauge

Plot Your Course

Mindful Walking

Being Here, Now, with Taste

Being Here, Now, with Smell

Being Here, Now, with Sight

Being Here, Now, with Sound

Being Here, Now, with Touch

Key 2 Begin with Your Epilogue 32

Current Resources

Identify Your Rainbows, and Bring them with You

Timeline

Your Epilogue

I Survived!

Celebrate and Honor Your Survival

Key 3 Remembering Is Not Required 54

Which Phase is Most Useful for You Right Now?

Trauma Types

Pros and Cons

Safety and Stability Wish List

Routines and Rituals

Stabilization Breaks

Safe-Place Memory

What Does Feeling Safe and Stable Mean to You?

Make a Date with Calm

Increasing Focus and Attention

Choosing the Right Chair

Find Stability Through Balance

Creative, Calming Patterns

Noticing Your Stable Breath

Using Your Breath to Stabilize

Key 4 Stop Flashbacks 104

Internal and External

Self-Talk: That was a Memory

Mantra: That was a Memory

Empower Objects

Other Anchors to Now

Present-Day Fact Sheet

Being Here, Now Kit

Protective Boundaries

Draw Your Protective Boundary

Flashback Triggers and Resources

Noticing Patterns

Making a Plan

Taking Control of Your Flashback

Key 5 Reconcile Forgiveness and Shame 136

Part A Forgive Your Limitations 136

Autonomic Nervous System Responses

Trauma-Response Limitations

Additional Limitations

Should Have, Would Have, Could Have

Shall, Will, can Resources

Forgive-Your-Limitations Mantra

Forgive-Your-Limitations Letter

Part B Share Your Shame 156

What is the Point of Shame?

How Do You Know When You Feel Shame?

Relieve Your Shame

Put Shame Back Where it Belongs

Share Your Shame to Connect or Reconnect with Others

Be Accountable and Compassionate with Yourself

Key 6 Take Smaller Steps for Bigger Leaps 184

Reducing to Smaller Steps

Recovery Goals

Splitting One Goal into Steps

Manageable Steps

Go Slow

Alternative Steps

Supported Steps

Advocating Your Pace

Key 7 Get Moving 210

Find Your Activity

Small Steps and Alternatives

Movement in Nature

Try them Out

Find an Exercise Buddy

Set Up Record Keeping

Habit-Making Movement

Time-Saving Movement Habits

Posture

Connecting with Your Strength

Muscle Toning

Moving with Balance

Key 8 Make Lemonade 246

What Do I Value Now?

Pay it Forward

How to Help

Kintsugi

Ready or Not?

Small Steps to Lemonade

Assess Your Current Commitment Capabilities

A Trial Run

References 290

Index 293

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