Developmental Trauma - The Cause - The Experience - The Recovery: A gentle journey from trauma to ease - Softcover

Walsh Byrne, Brigid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1739835026 ISBN 13: 9781739835026

Publisher: Revealing the Light Within, 2021

Synopsis

This book may be for you if:

• You experienced shocks while your mom was carrying you inside, you were hospitalised or had surgery when very young, or if you experienced a loss or bereavement at a tender age.

• Maybe you were living in an environment that is apparently functioning, where anxiety is the familiar state of the parent, or where due to previous unresolved trauma the caregiver could look after your physical needs, but could not emotionally connect. Or,

• You grew up in a household with visible dysfunction, substance abuse, violence or severe mental illness.

Or maybe you don't recognise yourself above, but you know that you:

• Are one the “difficult clients” from the point of view of health practitioners – you keep coming back but nothing ever works.

• Are very earnest in your desire to grow and change, and in spite of your best efforts, are stuck in patterns that don't resolve with the usual approach.

• Feel there must be something fundamentally wrong with you, and had this feeling compounded with each further failed endeavour at healing or growth.

• Despair of anything ever changing for the better.

This book describes, in a clear and accessible way, the mechanisms that are at play when someone has experienced trauma at a young age. It describes how early experiences shape the brain and the nervous system, and explains why some patterns and behaviours may resist change.

More than simply shining a light of understanding, it offers a pathway to resolution of those stubborn, unyeilding traits. The pathway is gentle - recognising that very young parts are at play within - regardless of actual age. The authors own story is woven through the text. Having recently turned 60, and having known those difficulties for most of her own life, it is a story of hope and redemption.

Edition details

• Publisher: Revealing the Light Within
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1739835026
• ISBN 13: 9781739835026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127