Parenting Trauma

What parents, educators, and health professionals can do to recognize, prevent, and heal childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—by the author of Waking the Tiger Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural...

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 ...

Toxic relationships exert a power over us like few things in life can, but that doesn’t mean you have to settle for them. In fact, by simply deciding you want more from life, you can start to reclaim your worth and take action. The problem is that this is so much easier said than done. If only you could stumble across a step-by-step guide that would show you how to reclaim your life and rebuild from the ground up.

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.

Adoption isn’t a fairy tale. It’s a storm... breathtaking, brutal, holy, and heartbreaking all at once. In this deeply intimate memoir, Stephanie Parker opens her family’s story with a honesty that is both courageous and disarming. She invites you into the moments most families hide: the fear, the trauma, the tears behind closed doors, and the fierce love that refuses to give up even when everything in you feels shattered. This is not a book about perfect parents or easy answers. It’s a book about the nights you cry on the bathroom floor, wondering if you’re strong enough... and ...

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.

"All behavior makes sense" '"It most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction. Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what's...

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.

Discover the transformative power of your inner self through the wisdom of Carl Jung in this guided journey of self-discovery and reflection. This audiobook explores Jungian shadow theory and mindful self-exploration in an accessible and practical way. Rooted in Carl Jung's foundational teachings, it simplifies key concepts and invites listeners to examine hidden emotions, patterns, and aspects of themselves that may be holding them back.

There are so many reasons to be angry after the devastating discovery of being betrayed and deceived by the person you trusted the most with your heart, your body and mind, and your life. Eighty-four percent of betrayed partners who participated in a Betrayal Trauma Anger survey reported the anger they experienced after discovery was more intense than at any other time in their life.

Raise kids who can handle whatever life throws at them—from the Navy SEAL performance coach who discovered that real resilience comes from connection, not pressure. Includes exclusive bonus content: Gretchen, Brandon's co-parent, reads her foreword and the two share a candid 20-minute bonus...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your child’s big emotions - and frustrated by your own reactions? Are stress, burnout, and constant fatigue making it difficult to stay grounded, connected, and present as a parent? Discover how to become thecalm, confident parent your child needs - even if you feel overwhelmed right now. Raise emotionally intelligent kids by learning to regulate your own emotions - even during meltdowns. Finally feel in control of your parenting - not controlled by stress, triggers, or exhaustion. You’re not alone - and you’re not failing. Calm Patent, Calm Child gives...

You are not imagining this. And you are not the problem. If you feel confused after every argument, if you keep apologizing just to keep the peace, if you wonder whether your husband is a narcissistic husband or if you are overreacting, this book was written for you. Unlike generic books on narcissistic abuse or emotionally immature relationships, this guide speaks directly to women living inside a toxic marriage who are still questioning their own reality. It helps you recognize emotional abuse in real, everyday moments, especially when dealing with a covert narcissist who appears normal ...

World-leading neuroscientist and psychologist Dr Ruth Feldman has spent decades studying the intricacies of our social interactions. Her lab has shown that humans bond so deeply that we alter one another's biology - our brain waves align, our hearts beat the same rhythm, and hormones are...

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an essential manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma. “An extraordinary book ...Beautiful, profound, and important.” —New York Times The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but...

Break cycles of generational trauma and heal your nervous system to raise secure, emotionally connected children. When everyday moments trigger sudden overwhelm, shutdown, or perfectionism, it is your body reacting to past pain—not a failure in your caregiving. This compassionate guide...

When childhood emotions erupt like storms, the whole family feels the aftershocks. DMDD (Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder) is one of the most misunderstood and emotionally exhausting childhood conditions. Parents often face explosive meltdowns, sensory overloads, school discipline battles, PTSD from restraint-based programs, and daily chaos that outsiders can’t begin to understand. In Parenting Through Explosive Childhood, author Devon R. Browning shares a raw, unfiltered, deeply compassionate journey through raising a child whose emotions erupted like earthquakes. Part memoir, part...

The Wounds We Carry is a powerful and compassionate guide for anyone living in the long shadow of childhood trauma and Complex PTSD. Written by trauma survivor and healing advocate Emily Grace Carter, this book blends lived experience with research-backed practices to help you break free from the invisible burdens you've been carrying for years. Whether you feel stuck, overwhelmed, ashamed, or exhausted, this book will meet you where you are—with empathy, honesty, and hope.

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.

In Breaking the Cycles of Trauma, renowned trauma expert Dr. Russ Irwin delivers a life-giving roadmap to help you interrupt the hidden patterns that keep you stuck.