Trauma Learning

Overcome spiritual abuse and navigate religious deconstruction by recovering the identity you were forced to surrender. If you are questioning a high-control faith community or grieving the loss of your spiritual home, you are not alone in this disorienting transition. This compassionate...

Trauma Theory & Testimony: Breaking Cycles Through Lived Experience and Developmental Theory is an award-winning textbook memoir that bridges lived experience with developmental theory, offering a powerful exploration of how childhood adversity shapes identity, behavior, and resilience across the lifespan. Blending personal testimony with accessible academic insight, Charlietta D. Owens shares her journey through childhood trauma, foster care, incarceration, and ultimately professional advocacy and licensed social worker.

What if the student dysregulation you are managing is not a behavior problem, but a design flaw? Most classroom management strategies focus on controlling students, but very few teach you how to design an environment where neurodivergent learners can actually thrive. If you are tired of modifying lessons on the fly, battling student refusal, and feeling like the weight of a heavy system rests entirely on your shoulders, it is because it does. The problem is not your effort. It is the architecture of the classroom. In Designing for Belonging, education leader Geraldine Doornkamp provides an ...

Unlock a Relaxed Body and Mind in Just 28 Days - Say Goodbye to Stress and Trauma Without Overwhelm! Does the weight of stored trauma keep you from feeling comfortable in your own skin? Are you constantly battling anxieties, unsure of how to release years of pent-up stress? Imagine a life where you can find relief and comfort, where the burden of trauma is lifted, and you can truly thrive. Have you tried various self-help methods and therapy sessions, only to feel overwhelmed and disconnected from your own body? Have you avoided traditional talk therapy because you don’t want to dwell on ...

Acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner narrates his gripping and inspiring story of a near-fatal accident and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover, one breath at a time. This program includes a note written and read by his daughter, Ava...

Work More Effectively with Clients Suffering from Trauma Enhance your ability to work skillfully with your clients’ trauma in this professional training taught by Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. Drawing on the latest research and neuroscientifically grounded treatment approaches in the area of trauma...

After more than 10 years of research and study, Dr. Kevin Skinner's Treating Trauma from Sexual Betrayal offers valuable insight into why a partner's sexual behaviors outside of a committed relationship creates symptoms that match post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This book provides an in-depth view into the lives of individuals suffering from trauma after sexual betrayal. Using his research data from more than 5,000 individuals who have experienced betrayal, Dr. Skinner outlines why betrayal triggers trauma and then provides the essential tools for healing.

You're not crazy. You’re triggered. You’re not too much. You were trained to chase love that runs. You date people who pull away. You feel like you’re begging to be chosen. You either cling, vanish, or implode. You don’t need another breakup. You need to understand why your nervous system thinks this is love. This book doesn’t just describe attachment styles. It helps you repattern them — in real time, with tools that stick. You’ll get: ✅ Real-life dialogues between attachment styles (you’ll see yourself in them) ✅ Secure behavior scripts you can copy-paste into texts ...

They call her “dramatic.” They say she’s “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” or “just hormonal.” But what if she’s not crazy at all? What if she’s carrying the weight of trauma, responsibility, expectation, and exhaustion—all while being expected to smile through it? This book is a wake-up call to a world that’s too quick to judge and too slow to understand the silent battles women fight every single day. From invisible wounds that never fully healed to mental health struggles masked by productivity and people-pleasing, She’s Not Crazy, She’s Carrying Too Much ...

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat. "An illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed." —Washington Post The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars...

With accessible strategies grounded in trauma-informed education and positive psychology, this audiobook equips teachers to support all students, particularly the most vulnerable. It will help them to build their resilience, increase their motivation and engagement, and fulfil their full...

Anything is possible – even building a better relationship with math! This is much more than a book about math. This is a book about hope. Imagine failing 11th grade math – twice! – and going on to be known affectionately as The Lady Gaga of Math. That is the story of author Vanessa "The Math Guru" Vakharia. Thanks to an inspiring teacher who helped Vanessa heal her own relationship with math, Vanessa was then able to see math in a way that literally changed the trajectory of her life.

An unlikely self-love story between a broken girl and her strange brain. Using a refreshing, unexpected, and clever combination of self-deprecation and profound insightfulness, Cindy Robinson shares the story of how her ADHD, OCD, and childhood trauma aided both in her downfall as well as her ultimate triumph. Her humorous and heartfelt vignettes invite you to walk alongside her as she attempts to prove she’s “normal” (and fails repeatedly). Determined not to give up on herself, she ultimately finds solace in a surprising place... her strangeness. Witness her artfully blossom from ...

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...

Much of what we previously thought about trauma is simply wrong. It’s not a psychological problem as we previously thought. This book provides five concepts that will turn your previous understanding of trauma upside down and inside out, leading you to the breakthroughs you’ve been wanting.

Are you questioning if you’ll ever fully heal from the abuse you’ve experienced? Or are you still struggling to remove yourself from a toxic dynamic? Whichever the case, healing is not only possible but inevitable when you take the courageous step toward reclaiming your power and embracing your worth.

NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-Long shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex...

Brain science that battles burnout. Teachers are burned out and current behavior plans aren’t working. This is not a one-size-fits-all fix. Just honest conversation without jargon or judgment joined with accessible resources exhausted teachers have been searching for. The connected classroom offers connection, compassion, and classroom strategies for the kids who need you most. It’s a book written by a 30 year classroom teacher and an occupational therapist who specializes in trauma and nervous system vulnerability. The authors use personal and relatable stories to translate ...

In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures. Different parts of a child's brain develop at different speeds and understanding these differences...

In Trauma-Bonded: Why We Stay, How We Heal Lauren Impraim, LPC-S, CAS, draws on years of clinical experience and her own healing journey to illuminate the hidden psychological forces that tether us to toxic partners long after the relationship stops feeling safe. With clarity and compassion, she breaks down the patterns of narcissistic abuse, intermittent reinforcement, unmet childhood needs, and emotional survival strategies that create powerful bonds confused for love.