Trauma Informed Health

Trauma-Informed Children’s Ministry: A Practical Guide to Reaching Hurting Kids helps children’s ministry leaders understand trauma and strengthen their ministries to serve and disciple hurting kids.

A new model of therapeutic action, one that heals trauma and dissociation, is overtaking the mental-health field. It is not just trauma, but the dissociation of the self, that causes emotional pain and difficulties in functioning. This book discusses how people are universally subject to trauma, what trauma is, and how to understand and work with normative as well as extreme dissociation. In this new model, the client and the practitioner are both traumatized and flawed human beings who affect each other in the mutual process that the promotes the healing of the client-psychotherapy.

Although many forms of trauma treatment rely solely on talk therapy as a means of healing, we cannot "talk out" every issue related to trauma. Indeed, trauma is stored in the body and the brain and must be treated as such. Designed with both mental health clinicians and clients in mind, Trauma-Informed Yoga offers forty-seven short, simple practices that regulate the autonomic nervous system, calm the racing mind, and center those of us living chaotic twenty-first century lives.

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault provides a comprehensive overview of how to offer yoga to survivors of sexual assault in a safe, effective, evidence-based, and healing way. Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki, founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga, draws on the framework of trauma-informed care and trauma-informed yoga program development and curriculum, while also weaving in personal narrative and inspiring survivor stories.

In a society that values independence, self-preservation, and individualistic thinking, we are missing the key to fulfillment: Connection through attachment. Simply, attachment is the way that we connect to each other. Without attachment, people feel alone to deal with challenges they face, which leads to distress, dysfunction, and mental health disorders. Improve your client's relationships by teaching them strategies to feel more connected reestablish trust, and restore positive emotions..

If you've experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, your past trauma could affect how you care for yourself today. You may struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings, and reach for food to soothe your emotions when feeling sad, anxious, or stressed. You aren't alone. Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors offers an innovative, trauma-informed approach to overcoming emotional eating using the principles of mindfulness, self-compassion, and neuroscience.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach—rooted in neuroscience—IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new audio manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications. Easy to listen to and highly practical.

Five years in the making—the powerful follow-up to Maslow Before Bloom: Basic Human Needs Before Academics. What if school wasn’t just about achievement… but about becoming? In Maslow Before Bloom… Then Gardner, Jung & Goleman: Educating the Whole Child With Needs, Strengths, Meaning & Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Bryan Pearlman invites educators, counselors, and leaders to reimagine what it truly means to help students thrive. Building on the truth that kids can’t learn if they don’t feel safe, seen, or supported, this book goes beyond Maslow to explore how we help students grow...

Among the various treatments for trauma, trauma-informed yoga stands out, rooted in an ancient practice, offering a safe, compassionate, and empowering path to recovery. This book, authored by a seasoned yoga practitioner, serves as a compassionate guide towards empowered healing, resilience, and personal growth.

If willpower worked, you wouldn’t be reading this book. You’ve tried discipline. You’ve tried restriction. You’ve tried consistency, structure, and “doing everything right.” And still, your body didn’t respond the way it was supposed to. This book explains why. When the Body Refuses to Shrink is not a diet book. It’s a biological explanation for why weight loss often stalls—not because of failure or lack of effort, but because the body is under stress. When the nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight, the body prioritizes survival over change. Cortisol rises. Metabolism...

Do you ever feel like different "parts" of you are constantly pulling in opposite directions—an inner critic that won't quiet down, an anxious voice that keeps you on edge, or a wounded inner child that longs to be seen and cared for? You are not broken. You are not alone. What you're experiencing is your internal family system—and learning to understand and work with your inner family members (or parts) is the key to helping you move from inner chaos to clarity, calm, and confidence. 👉 The Internal Family Systems Workbook is a trauma-informed guide designed for beginners who want to...

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 ...

You didn’t start like this. But nursing changed you anyway. The Nurse Who Sees Too Much is not a burnout book. It’s a recognition book. This is for the nurse who notices everything now. Who can’t turn their brain off. Who scans rooms, people, exits, tone. Who jokes darker than they used to. Who feels more guarded, sharper, quieter and doesn’t know when that happened. This book names what nursing does to your mind without romanticizing it or minimizing it. Inside, you’ll find why: Normal stopped feeling normal Caring started to cost you Relaxing feels impossible Sleep doesn’t ...

In this audio manual, therapists will learn to access their core, compassionate Self and collaborate with clients in befriending protective parts who engage in addictive processes; healing the vulnerable, wounded parts they protect; and restoring balance to their system

Every patient carries a story—some visible, many hidden beneath the surface. For survivors of sexual assault, even a routine medical visit can feel overwhelming, triggering fear, silence, or distress. What Every Provider Should Know equips healthcare professionals across every specialty to create safe, compassionate, trauma-informed environments where patients feel seen, heard, and supported. Drawing on more than twenty-six years of nursing experience, Sexual Assault Nurse & Coach Marie McKenzie introduces her powerful R.I.S.E. Framework—Recognize trauma, Initiate safe care, Support ...

This book teaches assessment, treatment plans, enhancing the therapeutic relationship, and ethics and boundary issues, all within a general framework of attachment theory and trauma. Practical chapters talk about working with attachment problems, grief, depression, cultural differences, affect tolerance, anxiety, addiction, trauma, skill-building, suicidal ideation, psychosis, and the beginning and end of therapy.

Do emotional triggers still haunt you, even when you don’t know why? What if your anger, guilt, or anxiety isn’t about now—but a message from the past asking to be healed? Are you ready to stop letting pain write your story—and start rewriting your future with clarity, confidence, and purpose? This powerful guide invites you to explore the hidden impact of unresolved trauma and emotional wounds—those that silently shape your reactions, relationships, and self-worth. It’s time to take back the pen and rewrite your story—from pain to purpose. Inside, you’ll discover how: ...

This Is Your Body on Trauma is the first book to teach how to use nutrition to heal underlying trauma that presents in physical symptoms. It features a unique do-it-yourself approach, allowing people to completely customize their care plan.

If you have experienced trauma in your life—particularly childhood trauma—and also struggle with addiction, you should know that you are not alone. Emotions that surface after trauma can include anger, fear, sadness, helplessness, and shame. These emotions can lead to low self-esteem, poor impulse control, and set you up for developing addictive behaviors. That's why acknowledging and working through these feelings is essential to healing from substance use. But where do you start?

Heal Trauma Through Sound Meditation offers a comprehensive, body-centered approach to trauma healing that moves beyond talk-based methods and cognitive understanding. Rooted in neuroscience, somatic awareness, and meditative practice, this book reveals how sound can gently regulate the nervous system, restore emotional safety, and rebuild the connection between mind and body. Trauma is presented not as a memory problem, but as a physiological state—one in which the nervous system becomes trapped in survival modes such as fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. The early chapters guide ...