The Modern Trauma Toolkit

Nurture Your Post-Traumatic Growth with Personalized Solutions

By: Christy Gibson MD MD

Narrated by: Christy Gibson MD MD

Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey.

Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. Having studied brain-based and body-based approaches to wellbeing, Dr. Christy Gibson teaches readers how to embrace their innate power and catalyze community wisdom. Drawing on her work with people suffering from stress and societal challenges, Dr. Gibson shares practical and effective mental health advice you can personalize. In clear and accessible language, The Modern Trauma Toolkit describes new theories in brain biology, such as the polyvagal theory and epigenetics, and explains how you can remodel your brain to achieve post-traumatic growth. While noting how particular communities face inequitable stressors, she empowers readers to identify and harness their unique and cultural strengths. Dr. Gibson shares over forty activities that can be self-taught and practiced so you can begin your healing journey today, including:

• Iffirmations: Reimagine affirmations to plant seeds of possibility
• The Container: Create your box of shame and leave it behind
• Havening: Discover the body's three areas that are best suited to self-soothing
• Solutions Studio: Catalyze change at the systems level using design thinking

Transcend Trauma

Practical and useful ways to address trauma through neuroscience, mindfulness, community-building, social awareness, personal agency, self-compassion, etc.

Heard the author on a podcast, tried the book

I learned of this book because the author was featured on a podcast about mental health, and she gave great information. I figured the book with largely be a deeper dive into those insights. Unfortunately, there are a ton of political stances shoehorned in to the material and presented as fact. I regret buying this book even though I'm politically aligned with author, and it was not helpful.