Healing Relationship Trauma

If you felt unloved or unsafe as a child, you may have difficulty trusting others as an adult. You might struggle to maintain healthy relationships, or feel like you are somehow damaged. Written by a renowned family therapist, this gentle guide offers an evidence-based approach to help you move past relational trauma—the psychological wounds that can result from experiences of abuse, neglect, or betrayal. By building self-awareness, understanding triggers, and improving your communication skills, you can achieve the love and connection you deserve.

Are you caught in the grip of a relationship that feels impossible to leave, no matter how much it hurts? This book is your guide to understanding the invisible chains that keep people tied to toxic dynamics, and, more importantly, how to break free. Whether it’s with a partner, a friend, or a family member, toxic relationships can erode self-worth and leave you questioning your reality. In this book, you’ll find a compassionate yet empowering approach to identifying harmful patterns, making sense of your emotions, and rebuilding the confidence you need to reclaim your life.

Your past holds power over your present. Childhood experiences shape your beliefs, actions, and relationships more than you realize. Do you struggle with self-doubt, insecurity, or uncontrollable emotions? These are echoes of unresolved childhood trauma, staining your adult life like unseen residue on a canvas. But there's hope. This book offers a compassionate approach to healing your inner child while equipping you with practical tools for emotional growth.

Spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl has spent years investigating why it is that old and seemingly disconnected traumas can seed their way through communities and across generations. His work culminates in Healing Collective Trauma, a new perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots. Thomas combines deep knowledge of mystical traditions with the latest scientific research. "In this way", writes Thomas, "we are weaving a double helix between ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding".

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

Psychotherapist and trauma survivor Jasmin Lee Cori offers new insight into trauma-related difficulties (including PTSD, depression, substance abuse), provides self-care tools, candor about therapy and medications, and addresses spiritual issues. While there are many different approaches to...

Do you or someone you know feel stuck in the cycle of trauma or anxiety? Do emotional struggles steal your peace and leave you feeling lost? Healing doesn’t have to be so complicated. This book offers a simple, practical guide to emotional recovery. It combines proven methods with modern tools to help you heal in today’s busy world. With clear steps, you’ll learn how to calm anxiety, rebuild self-worth, and find lasting emotional balance—without confusing jargon or complicated techniques.

Are you still carrying the weight of an emotionally abusive relationship long after it’s ended? Struggling to break free from the heavy chains of a trauma bond that keeps pulling you back? Jennifer Alushan, an experienced educator with several degrees in education and specialized training in trauma processing, guides you on this journey of recovery and self-empowerment.

If you've experienced trauma, your nervous system may be stuck in "fight-or-flight" mode—leading to symptoms such as hypervigilance, extreme anxiety, and distrust of others. You may struggle with intense emotions, or have nightmares and flashbacks. And you may even experience physical symptoms such as an upset stomach, a pounding heart, or shakiness. This compassionate guide offers a breakthrough approach to bring your mind and body back into balance.

Imagine, if you will, a disease - one that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice; one that transfers easily between parent and child; one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize trauma: as an out-of-control epidemic with a potentially fatal prognosis. In Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti examines the most recent research, clinical best practices, and dozens of real-life stories to present a deeper, richer, and more urgent view of trauma.

Acclaimed psychologist Dr Sarah Woodhouse shows us that to start to heal from trauma and be truly well we must take action every single day. Through gripping case studies and interviews with some of the world's leading trauma experts, this book demystifies the process of trauma healing with resources and tools you can start using immediately. Childhood trauma and emotional disconnection can lead to a profound loss of agency and harmful patterns of denial, avoidance, self-blame, perfectionism, overwhelm, compulsion and control.

With Healing the Roots of Trauma, Dawson Church, bestselling author and founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare, examines the growing body of research on why energy-based practices like EFT play a critical role in the treatment of trauma. Throughout, Church shares dozens of groundbreaking studies, clearly demonstrating the importance of combining psychological, physical, and energetic approaches for both trauma recovery and building resilience, with EFT being one of the most accessible and impactful options.

The Healing from Trauma Sleep Hypnosis Meditation is your trusted companion on the path to emotional liberation. Don't let trauma dictate your future any longer–take the first step toward a life of healing and inner peace tonight.

This groundbreaking book includes four books that will teach you from start to finish, everything you need to know about Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Codependency and Complex PTSD, as well as how to recover from each one of them.

Healing Sex is the encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault- heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single - who want to delight in their own sexuality. While most books on the topic broach sexuality to reassure women that it's all right to say "no" to unwanted sex, Healing Sex encourages women to learn how to say "yes" - to their own desires and on their own terms.

A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma has been internationally recognized as an essential text on shame. Integrating new theory about trauma, shame resilience, and self-compassion, this second edition further clarifies the relational, right-brain essence of being in and with the suffering of shame. New chapters carry theory further into praxis.

Written by a psychologist and based on the Gottman Method for couples therapy, this book outlines a trauma-informed approach to help you and your partner heal. You'll find skills to help you cultivate a deeper bond—one that builds on friendship and shared experiences. You'll learn to set healthy boundaries and manage difficult emotions.

Research shows that attachment patterns—our patterns of relating to others, which develop in early childhood—affect far more aspects of our lives than was previously thought. Given how crucial these patterns are to how every patient relates to the world and to their own selves, how can therapists harness attachment to provide more effective therapy? Using accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy AEDP® theory and methodology as a foundation, the authors present an innovative approach that tailors treatment to attachment patterns.

Drawn from the wisdom and insights of the world's top doctors, therapists, and experts, Trauma will show you that no matter what you have endured, how long you have carried it, or how deeply embedded it is, you can be free from pain and suffering. Your road to recovery and whole-body healing is before you, and with it the richer and more profound connections that you seek with yourself and your loved ones.

Spiritual writer and founder of Rising Woman, Sheleana Aiyana takes you on a transformational inner-work journey to heal life-long relationship pattens and reclaim power over your life. Romantic relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But for...