Parenting Trauma

Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can, sometimes, add to the problems these families face, prolonging the healing process for all.

Break the Cycle: Transform Your Family Legacy Through Mindful Parenting. Every parent carries invisible baggage, emotional patterns, reactive triggers and unconscious beliefs inherited from their own childhood. Despite our best intentions, we often find ourselves repeating the very behaviors we swore we'd never use with our children. It Stops With Me offers a compassionate roadmap for parents ready to break generational cycles, heal past trauma and create lasting change. Drawing on neuroscience, attachment theory and practical wisdom, this book provides 10 powerful tools to help you ...

A no-judgment, simple-to-follow step-by-step parenting guide to help you manage your emotions, meet your child’s needs with empathy, and create a calmer home—without ever resorting to threats or punishment Every parent has had that painful moment they realize there must be a better way to...

Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, substance abuse, depression, a lack of confidence, and many other mental and physical ailments may be a result of childhood trauma you have endured. Uncovering, accepting, and healing this childhood trauma will allow you to let go of the pain, releasing yourself from the guilt, shame, and self-destruction you have been living with. This book will provide you with tools and strategies to heal your childhood trauma allowing you to live fully.

The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers Children who have been adopted and/or shuttled through the foster-care system experience trauma at a much higher rate than other kids...

With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

In this honest and open account, Karla shares her journey of foster care, adoption, and a career that took her by surprise. As a mom of six amazing children, she has developed tried and true resources for families across the globe on trauma competent parenting. Here she brings her global and personal experience to the masses. Karla will inspire you and equip you with tools you need to be an agent of healing and advocate for your children NO MATTER WHAT!!If you are asking...Is Love Enough?What is trauma competency?How do I meet my child's complex needs?How can I be an agent of healing for my...

Healing from Childhood Trauma is your compassionate roadmap to understanding and transforming the wounds that shaped you. Blending trauma-informed psychology with heart-centered guidance, Lily Hart takes you on a gentle journey of self-discovery, helping you uncover how early experiences molded your attachment style, emotional habits, and sense of self-worth—and how to finally break free.

Have you ever wished you had heard certain words growing up, like “I love you,” “I’m sorry,” or “You are enough?” Words like this hold immense power, shaping how we see ourselves and how we navigate the world as adults. But what happens when you didn’t receive them? When the words you needed to hear were never spoken, it can create deep emotional wounds that linger into adulthood. This book is here to help you heal those wounds by reconnecting with your inner child and offering the love, support, and healing affirmations you were deprived of in your childhood. Inner Child ...

If you're constantly feeling on edge, forever working to appease your spouse to little avail and feel like you're constantly being chipped away at with their abusive behavior, then I can understand how emotionally shattering it feels to live this way. If, in the same breath, it breaks your heart to even consider leaving them because you can't imagine life without them, then I can understand that feeling too - because I was trauma bonded to my abusive ex.

De la Codependencia a la Conciencia es un audiolibro que aborda de manera compasiva y profunda cómo los traumas infantiles y la codependencia afectan nuestras vidas. Este audiolibro ofrece orientación paso a paso para liberarnos de los patrones de comportamiento dañinos, sanar nuestras heridas emocionales y construir relaciones más saludables.

Writer Peg Streep lays out seven distinct but interconnected stages on the path to reclaim your life from the effects of a toxic childhood: "discover", "discernment", "distinguish", "disarm", "reclaim", "redirect", and "recover". Each step is clearly explained and richly detailed with the stories of other women. With approaches drawn from psychology and other disciplines and with unique exercises, the book will help the listener tackle her own self-doubt and become consciously aware of how her mother's treatment continues to shape her behavior.

Trauma left me anxious, hypervigilant, and depleted. I thought it was "just who I was," until I discovered the truth: a dysregulated nervous system is not a permanent identity. It's a state — and states can change. With compassion, knowledge, and small daily practices, you can begin to heal. This book blends science with lived experience — but above all, it is written from a trauma-informed place.

Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised third edition has been updated with the very latest BPD research on comorbidity, extensive new information about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), the effectiveness of schema therapy, and coping and communication skills you can use to stabilize your relationship with the BPD or NPD sufferer in your life.

Therapist and meditation teacher Ralph De La Rosa places the innovative, evidence-based model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the context of Buddhist meditation to show that the process of healing trauma can lead you to your deepest spiritual nature. This book offers clear conceptual frameworks to understand trauma, post-traumatic growth, and the close relationship between healing trauma and spirituality. The many journal prompts, experiential practices, and guided meditations will teach you how to

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.

From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our daily emotional landscape, our relationships, and how we feel about ourselves. And in the wake of a traumatic event - such as a car accident, severe illness, loss of a loved one, or experience of abuse - that attachment style can deeply influence what happens next.

No te enamoraste de un monstruo; te enamoraste de la versión de ellos que querían que vieras. Para cuando la máscara cayó, tu corazón ya estaba enredado en promesas, sueños e ilusiones. Seguiste dando, esperando e intentando hasta que el agotamiento se volvió insoportable.

A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to nonmonogamous relationships.

You are not strange. You are not weak. You are mending. You are evolving. This guide will empower your healing journey and take you from surviving to thriving. It has practical tools, emotional support, and steps to reclaim your strength.