Modern Trauma

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...

You Just Survive is a combat veteran memoir that pulls no punches. These modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan sit beside plain spoken accounts of PTSD and trauma recovery, raw combat moments and the quiet battles that follow when the uniform comes off. This is not a sanitized war book. It is a combat veteran memoir told hour by hour, from turret scans in Ramadi and Marjah to patrols that ended with IEDs, mortars, and decisions you carry forever. If you search for modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, you will find the real, unfiltered scenes that define this book. The book ...

The History of Mental Health Treatment: From Ancient Practices to Modern Science BOOK 3: Modern Mental Health Treatment and Ongoing Debates: Psychotherapy, Medication, Ethics, and the Future of Mental Health Care explores how mental health care evolved from the early twentieth century to today, tracing the ideas, treatments, and controversies that continue to shape modern practice. Written in a clear, accessible style for non specialists, this book explains how psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and social reform converged to redefine mental illness and its treatment. Rather than ...

It's 2 AM and you're awake again, replaying that conversation from dinner. Was their tone different? Why did they check their phone during the movie? Does "sounds good" without an exclamation point mean they're pulling away? If you've ever found yourself trapped in an overthinking loop, analyzing every text message like a detective solving a crime, you're not alone. You're not "too sensitive" or "crazy"—you're a thoughtful person trying to find safety in love, but your mind has turned your relationship into a courtroom where you're both judge and defendant. The constant worry about your ...

“A personal and revealing...memoir from a trailblazing therapist.”—Kirkus Reviews Shares the author’s personal journey to heal his severe childhood trauma as well as his breakthroughs on the path to create Somatic Experiencing Explores how he came to view Einstein as his personal...

For readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee--a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, grief, depression, and trauma that America’s healthcare system engenders among doctors, nurses, and medical workers. Practicing medicine is traumatic: coping with the death of a patient, sharing a...

Walking with Wodan is the unflinching autobiographical testament of Freya Aswynn, one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Northern Tradition and runic spirituality. Part life-history, part initiatory record, this book traces a journey forged through extreme adversity, institutional neglect, occult awakening, and lifelong devotion to Wodan/Odin as living spiritual force. From a brutal childhood in post-war Europe and years spent in state care, through early encounters with magic, witchcraft, and esoteric orders, to her central role in the revival of Germanic paganism ...

(Loosely inspired by the story of Hosea & Gomer)Karalee “Kream” Stokes isn’t the type of woman you find in a church pew. She’s the kind of woman people whisper about—beautiful, broken, and bound to a man who’s as dangerous as he is controlling. Deacon Ross Davis knows better. But when God tells him to love her anyway, Ross risks everything—his reputation, his house, even his celibacy—to bring her home. But healing ain’t holy oil and hallelujahs. Especially not when you’re running from shame, trauma, and secrets the church ain’t ready to hear. As Karalee tries to ...

The Collective Unconscious Debate: Modern Controversies and Its Relevance Today explores one of psychology’s most mysterious and debated ideas through a fresh, modern lens. From the scientific critique of inherited archetypes to the cultural, philosophical, and digital implications of shared symbolism, this engaging and accessible book dives deep into the complex questions surrounding the collective unconscious. Is the collective unconscious a timeless truth, a metaphor for human connection, or a relic of outdated thinking? This book examines the theory’s impact on therapy, neuroscience...

“Life is currently on hold while I read the series” - Goodreads reviewer The past taints everything. Wynter has helped to create a safe home with her family. Her music career is taking off with an overseas recording opportunity and a new all-girl rock band. Her brothers could use some help. Indio returns from London and there's a room waiting for him if he'll take it, as well as an old flame in the wings. Caleb has a new chance at love, and Jesse continues his search for the perfect girl. Out of the blue, their mother Miriam returns seeking reconciliation. Her years of neglect have ...

Read by the author, Melody Beattie. Have you lost sight of yourself while addressing the needs of others? Is someone else's problem your problem? Fully revised and updated, with a new chapter on trauma and anxiety, this modern classic – that has already sold over 7 million copies across the...

Mental health wisdom and a systems-approach to trauma from a family doctor who works with people suffering from stress and community-based challenges, offering practical advice that can be personalized for listeners to choose the tools they wish to practice. In the midst of collective trauma, it helps us to know how our body is built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. The Modern Trauma Toolkit directly addresses that need.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A heartbreaking memoir from a girl who escaped county line trafficking only to become prey to other abusers… Emily has always felt like an outsider, so when a family friend takes her under his wing she is delighted. But soon it becomes clear that his motives...

From the author of Spells for Change comes a gentle and informative guide to reconnecting mindfully with ancestral practices, healing generational trauma along the way. Frankie Castanea—aka “Chaotic Witch Aunt”—draws on their own complex journey of ancestral reclamation to guide readers...

White Witchcraft vs Dark Psychology: Your Essential Guide to Spiritual Protection and Mental Clarity By Selena Blackwood Feeling drained, manipulated, or constantly off-balance? Something inside you knows it’s time to break free—you're right. You’re not overreacting. You’re waking up. In this powerful and practical guide, White Witchcraft vs Dark Psychology gives you the tools to protect your energy, reclaim your inner strength, and say no more to subtle manipulation and spiritual exhaustion.🔮 Awaken the Power of White Witchcraft White witchcraft isn’t about spells and potions...

The Shadows of Hope— Modern Slavery in the Land of the Free You Believe Slavery Ended in 1865. The Hidden Economy That Built Your Life Proves You Are Wrong. The Shadows of Hope is an uncompromising, forensic investigation that shatters the myth of American freedom, revealing a trillion-dollar system of Modern Slavery operating in plain sight, subsidized by your tax dollars, and built into the cost of everyday goods. This book meticulously traces the anatomy of coercion, from the digital recruitment of victims to the legislative loopholes that sustain their bondage. Part I: The ...

Between Grace & Fire A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga** Some lives are shaped by love. Others are forged by survival. And a few are tempered—slowly, painfully—between grace and fire. Between Grace & Fire is a psychologically layered, emotionally searing literary saga that traces one woman’s interior life from childhood into adulthood—not through spectacle, but through consequence. This is not a story about what happened. It is a story about what it cost. At its center is Aurie—a woman raised inside precision, performance, and expectation, groomed for appearance rather than ...

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing From the multi-million copy number one bestselling author of The Women, The Nightingale and The Four Winds, Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness and the...

Just Run: A Platinum Chocolate Psychological Saga by LongTemple Just Run is a visionary work of modern women’s literature—part psychological saga, part historical reckoning, part interior survival map. Set against the shifting social landscapes of early-20th-century America, this novel follows Run, a woman shaped by systems designed to discipline, silence, and reframe her long before she understood the language for what was happening to her. Foster care. Institutions. Streets that raised children faster than families could. Rooms where survival demanded stillness. Corridors where ...

Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to commit organised credit card fraud. Despite being placed in care – somewhere Gaia should feel safe – she is left even more vulnerable, and...