Social Trauma

The Black community has been suffering from racial discrimination for centuries, and the death of George Floyd sparked a rallying cry that traveled to every corner of the world.

Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us for the task at hand.

In The Healing Otherness Handbook, Stacee Reicherzer-a nationally known transgender psychotherapist and expert on trauma, otherness, and self-sabotage - shares her own personal story of childhood bullying, and how it inspired her to help others heal from the same wounds. Drawing from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Reicherzer will help you gain a better understanding of how past trauma has limited your life, and show you the keys to freeing yourself from self-defeating, destructive beliefs.

You see the path forward. Yet. You find yourself frustrated by their inability to take ownership of their advocacy. You might find yourself struggling to simplify complex legal information, to delicately navigate emotional conversations or even answer repeated questions. If only there was a way to understand what was going on in the victim’s mind…

Through the live of ten young people, award-winning nurse Dorcas Gwata reveals the impact of gang culture on mental health. Dorcas Gwata specialises in mental health. She has worked closely with vulnerable young people exposed to the knife crime, sexual exploitation, drug use and poor mental...

Die spannende Autobiografie des weltweit führenden Trauma-Therapeuten. Diese bemerkenswerte Autobiografie enthüllt die innere Geschichte eines herausragenden Menschen, der die Art und Weise, wie Psycholog:innen, Ärzt:innen und Heiler:innen die Wunden von Trauma und Missbrauch verstehen und behandeln, grundlegend revolutioniert hat. Der renommierte Trauma-Therapeut Peter A. Levine half mit der von ihm entwickelten Methode Somatic Experiencing (SE) Tausenden von Menschen, bevor er Jahre später mithilfe dieses Ansatzes sein eigenes Trauma auflösen konnte.

Was wird aus den Vereinigten Staaten? - Die Autorin des Nr.-1-Bestsellers "Zu viel und nie genug" stellt die Diagnose für ihr zerrüttetes Land... Das Trauma der USA, tief verwurzelt in der amerikanischen Geschichte, gärt seit Jahrzehnten unter der Oberfläche der einstigen Vorbild-Demokratie. Die korrupte und unmoralische Führung des Trump-Regimes war zugleich Symptom und Verstärker der nationalen Krise. Sie versetzte der Gesellschaft einen vernichtenden Stoß: Die Katastrophe der Corona-Pandemie traf auf ein zutiefst gespaltenes, geschwächtes Land.

The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage. Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible...

"Vielleicht hat es doch geschadet ..." Die Psychologin Sophie Lauenroth (@psychologin_sophie) klärt auf, wie viele Sprüche, die wir von klein auf gehört haben, uns geprägt haben. Wir alle werden von dem beeinflusst, was wir in der Kindheit erlebt haben. Kleine und große Traumata machen sich oft erst im Erwachsenenalter bemerkbar. Den meisten Menschen ist nicht bewusst, dass innere Wunden, verzerrte oder unterdrückte Erinnerungen uns in vielen Alltagssituationen lenken.

Das resiliente Wir. Wieviel Polarisierung können wir aushalten und wann bricht eine Gesellschaft einfach auseinander? 2015/2016 führt die Flüchtlingskrise zu einem Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Kräfte; 2020 ändert ein neuartiges Virus schlagartig unsere Lebensrealität und wirkt wie ein Brandbeschleuniger für soziale Ungleichheiten; 2022 beginnt Putin vor den Augen der Welt einen Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Ukraine, mit schweren Folgen auch für die deutsche Wirtschaft. Und die größte Krise in Form der sich anbahnenden Klimakatastrophe steht uns erst noch bevor.

In her debut book, Everybody Come Alive, Marcie Alvis Walker invites listeners into a deeply intimate and illuminating memoir comprising lyrical essays and remembrances of being a curious child of the seventies and eighties, raised under the critical and watchful eye of Jim Crow matriarchs who struggled to integrate their lives and remain whole. This is a coming-of-age journey touching on the bittersweet pain and joy of what it takes to become a person who embraces being Black, a woman, and holy in America.

When news outlets reveal church scandals or we hear stories about people leaving the church, it can seem as though we are in a bit of a crisis as the Body of Christ. In Being a Sanctuary, Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez—who has experienced abuse, trauma, and racism within the church—takes us on an honest, biblical, and reflective journey as she examines the state of the church and offers us a hopeful path forward.

This is a collection of poems inspired by love, loss of love, and other tragic and traumatic events that began in late July of 2000—so some poems are about love and others about the loss of that love. This is my autobiography in poetry form.

In this powerful book, Clarke draws on her professional expertise and her lived experience as a Black woman to share mindfulness exercises, breathwork practices, and meditative tools centered on healing from and surviving racial trauma. Filled with deeply personal stories highlighting the many systemic challenges that people of color face, this mixture of guide and memoir offers thirty-three practical techniques based on the emotions elicited from these experiences.

Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War. In My War Criminal, Jessica Stern brings to bear her incisive analysis and her own deeply considered reactions to her interactions with Karadzic, while also offering a deeply insightful and sometimes chilling account of the complex and even seductive powers of a magnetic leader.

An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time - and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.

Throughout American history, Black people were not given the freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, and seek healing.

Overcome PTSD and anxiety. Heal from childhood trauma and manage OCD and social anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This groundbreaking guide offers 23 proven CBT techniques, step-by-step guidance, and real-life case studies to help you break free from overwhelming emotions, conquer stress, and reclaim your life. Disentangle from the cycle of anxiety and fear build resilience and transform your relationship with stress. This concise and practical guide is designed to fit into your life, not the other way around

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking About Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms' Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking About Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations.

The impact of colonialism, generational trauma, and individual trauma is often disregarded in the Latinx community. This pioneering guide addresses this trauma and takes Latinx readers on a journey of healing and liberation.. It explores what it means to have been systematically oppressed, how it impacts us, and how to change it. In doing so, this book challenges stereotypes, unravels the shame-based narratives around Latinx mental health, and refocuses the conversation around cultural empowerment, awareness, and transformation.