Trauma Theory

The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm. You'll begin by getting to know your nervous system, including an exploration of polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve. You'll also learn soothing, body-based practices to help you rewire your nervous response, including rhythmic movements (EMDR and tapping), conscious breathing, mindful movement, and more. 

If you've experienced trauma, your nervous system may be stuck in "fight-or-flight" mode—leading to symptoms such as hypervigilance, extreme anxiety, and distrust of others. You may struggle with intense emotions, or have nightmares and flashbacks. And you may even experience physical symptoms such as an upset stomach, a pounding heart, or shakiness. This compassionate guide offers a breakthrough approach to bring your mind and body back into balance.

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.

Explains trauma using a combination of the Five Elements (from Traditional Chinese Medicine) and a touch perspective; for practitioners of a variety of modalities, including acupuncturists, somatic therapists, massage therapists, and mental health providers. Combining Eastern and Western trauma...

What if calming your nervous system didn’t require hours of meditation, complicated routines, or forcing yourself to “think positive”? This 3-in-1 audiobook collection brings together Vagus Nerve Exercises, Polyvagal Theory, and EMDR-Informed Self-Therapy to help you understand stress responses and build practical skills for greater calm and emotional regulation.

A powerful exploration of how early attachment wounds can lead to dissociative patterns—told through the lens of a trauma survivor. With a compassionate, trauma-informed voice, this concise guide combines personal narrative and key insights to help readers understand their own attachment-related dissociation and take hopeful steps toward healing.

What if the gifted program wasn’t just about intelligence? What if it was about something else entirely? In the 1970s and 80s, thousands of children across North America were quietly enrolled in specialized programs for the “gifted and talented.” But decades later, many of those children—now adults—are waking up to disturbing memories, missing time, and psychic experiences that can no longer be ignored. Author Desta Barnabe was one of them. From the mysterious "Green Group" in her Winnipeg elementary school to unexplained “nap times” and psychic testing with puzzle games, ...

What makes trauma therapy effective? The answers might surprise you. While therapists have been bombarded with brain science, hundreds of new models, and pressure to use evidence-based techniques, research has demonstrated that the therapeutic relationship ultimately predicts therapy outcomes. This is especially true for traumatized clients. But, what kind of therapeutic relationship? Forming a secure therapeutic alliance with traumatized clients is tricky. How do you help clients trust you after they've been abused, betrayed, or exploited? 

Psychosomatics. Map of All Diseases is a powerful exploration of how our bodies speak — and why we must learn to listen. This book challenges the idea that health is a matter of luck, genes, or discipline. Instead, it reveals how symptoms often arise not from physical failure, but from unresolved emotions, inherited patterns, and unspoken inner conflicts. Vadym Sanzharov, founder of Simple Psychosomatics School, brings together his years of practice, biology, and real human stories to offer a clear path from symptom to understanding — and from understanding to healing. With clarity and ...

A Self-Guided Program for Healing Trauma, Managing Emotions, and Finding Inner Peace — Endorsed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, Founder of IFS Heal from the inside out with Internal Family Systems therapy — the evidence-based approach to emotional healing, trauma recovery, and self-leadership. You don’t have to stay stuck in cycles of anxiety, perfectionism, self-sabotage, or emotional overwhelm. This step-by-step workbook helps you connect with your “parts,” release the burdens of your past, and lead your life from a place of calm and clarity. Perfect for anyone seeking: ✅ Self-...

You've tried positive thinking. You've white-knuckled your way through panic attacks. You've told yourself to "just relax" a thousand times. But what if your anxiety, shutdown, and stress responses aren't personal failures—they're intelligent biological strategies you can actually work with? Polyvagal Theory for Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma reveals the hidden language of your nervous system and gives you the roadmap to genuine, lasting regulation. Richard Banks translates cutting-edge neuroscience into simple, practical tools that work with your body, not against it.

Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain? If so, you may be suffering a traumatic reaction to a past event, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine. Medical researchers have known for decades that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure...

"A groundbreaking 2-in-1 book that offers the dynamics of human relationship and Treatments to Psychiatric disorder results from traumatic events." -- Bestselling Author, Greg Watson. The first Book “THE ATTACHMENT THEORY” is crafted to help you discover the basics of Your Actual Relationships by your Attachment Style using the Emotional Focused Therapy. Also treats childhood abuse or neglect, anxiety, eating disorders, Borderline personality and interpersonal issues. The second book “THE PSTD WORKBOOK” is designed to provide you with the skills and techniques to overcome Trauma and...

A Mystical Approach to Healing TraumaTo heal trauma, we have to start with its origin: disconnection from spiritual experience. This is the breakthrough premise of Transforming Trauma, Caroline Myss and James Finley's first audio-learning course on how combining contemplative and clinical...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work and How to Be the Love You Seek comes a groundbreaking guide to healing our childhood wounds and rediscovering our full potential As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character—shutting down...

Reclaim Your Calm, Reset Your Body, and Finally Feel Safe Again. Do you feel anxious, exhausted, or stuck in survival mode—no matter what you try? Been told it might be your vagus nerve but don’t know where to start? Or are you simply looking for a natural, science-backed way to finally feel calm, clear, and in control? 💡 THE REAL PROBLEM: YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM IS STUCK IN SURVIVAL Your gut is off. Your sleep is wrecked. Your heart races. Your mind won’t stop. You’re not broken. You’re not weak. You’re running a trauma-informed operating system—and it’s time for a reboot. ...

You've done the therapy. You've journaled. You've visualized your inner child in a golden light. And the wound is still there — in your chest, your gut, your clenched jaw at 2 AM. Because you've been healing in the wrong language. Your inner child is not a metaphor. It is a literal nervous system configuration — encoded in your cells between ages 0 and 7, before you had language, before you had choice. It cannot be healed through conversation, because it was never stored in words. It was stored in your body. In the tension you carry. In the breath you hold. In the patterns you cannot ...

You may understand your trauma. You may know your triggers, recognize your patterns, and still feel your body slip into hypervigilance, shutdown, numbness, overthinking, people-pleasing, or survival-mode stress before you can stop it. That is the problem this book is built to help you work with. The Nervous System Reset Bible is a practical 3-in-1 workbook and recovery guide that brings together Polyvagal Theory, somatic therapy tools, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and a structured 66-day plan to help you understand trauma-related patterns, respond to them more effectively, and build a ...

A Life-Changing Collection for Deep Healing, Self-Regulation, and Lasting Transformation Struggling with anxiety, stress, or emotional overwhelm? Imagine waking up tomorrow feeling calm, grounded, and in control, without years of therapy, endless coping strategies, or feeling stuck in survival mode. This comprehensive collection brings together two highly acclaimed books—The Somatic Therapy Handbook and The Polyvagal Theory Handbook—to provide you with a science-backed, practical path to healing from within.

Expand and Enhance Your Skills as a Therapist with the Guidance of an Internationally Respected Clinician Couple therapy combines the intense work of one-on-one sessions with the need for close mediation skills—which is why the practice can be twice as difficult and emotionally draining. This...