It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD

It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD

Author: Mary Giuliani

Publisher: Mary Giuliani

Published: 2023-02-21

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13:

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Your Struggle With Food, Weight, or Substances Is Not Your Fault, It's A Normal Response To Surviving An Abnormal Childhood. Even though Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life— behind closed doors, she still struggled and wondered… * Why she had so few close friends and had difficulty finding a fulfilling, romantic relationship. * Why she still struggled with food, sleep, and caffeine. * Why she couldn't find the flow and passion she longed for in her career. * Why, even though she was in long-term recovery with food and substances and had maintained a 160lb weight loss for several decades, she felt the need to hide these parts of her past from others. Finally, in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving these, and her past struggles with food, obesity, and substances was a condition known as Complex PTSD (CPTSD), a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home. This discovery sent Mary on a five-year journey where she researched leading experts in the trauma and recovery fields who authored books about complex PTSD and the adverse childhood experiences study (ACE Study.) In order to find the most effective treatments for healing trauma, she studied the work of thought leaders in the fields of CPTSD, neuroscience, and developmental psychology and through books about addiction, childhood trauma in adults, emotional trauma, addiction to food, and addiction recovery. Join Mary as she experiences one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learns that CPTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, recovery, relationships, career, and health—and learn what she did to heal. Witness Mary go from believing she was weak, a failure, hopeless, and unworthy due to her struggle with food, weight, substances, and relationships to finally ending these battles by healing the trauma driving them. Discover how she found compassion for what happened to her, released the shame over how she coped, and learned to accept herself just as she is. Learn how healing trauma opened the door for her to forge healthy relationships and finally find her purpose in helping fellow survivors heal and thrive. In This Blending of Memoir, Science-Based Research & Compassionate CPTSD Workbook, You'll Learn: You're not alone; you're not bad or defective; it's not your fault, your symptoms are normal, and you can heal. Access the step-by-step CPTSD workbook & Recovery Guide that Mary used to end her struggle with alcohol, drugs, and food, including what she's done to maintain a 160lb weight loss for over two decades. * Stay on track with your recovery with the included CPTSD workbook. * Gain clarity and heal through worksheets, quizzes & questionnaires. * Gain access to a 36-item menu of evidence-based trauma healing therapies and addiction recovery resources proven to facilitate optimal trauma healing and recovery from difficulty with relationships, alcohol, drugs, food, weight, or other behavioral addictions. To Get Started Ending Your Struggle With Food, Weight, Substances or Relationships Buy Now!


Trauma and Addiction

Trauma and Addiction

Author: Tian Dayton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0757396704

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For the past decade, author Tian Dayton has been researching trauma and addiction, and how psychodrama (or sociometry group psychotherapy) can be used in their treatment. Since trauma responses are stored in the body, a method of therapy that engages the body through role play can be more effective in accessing the full complement of trauma-related memories. This latest book identifies the interconnection of trauma and addictive behavior, and shows why they can become an unending cycle. Emotional and psychological pain so often lead to self-medicating, which leads to more pain, and inevitably more self-medicating, and so on--ad infinitum. This groundbreaking book offers readers effective ways to work through their traumas in order to heal their addictions and their predilection toward what clinicians call self-medicating (the abuse of substances [alcohol, drugs, food], activities [work, sex, gambling, etc.] and/or possessions [money, material things].) Readers caught up in the endless cycle of trauma and addiction will permanently transform their lives by reading this book. Therapists treating patients for whom no other avenue of therapy has proved effective will find that this book offers practical, lasting solutions. Case studies and examples of this behavioral phenomenon will illustrate the connection, helping readers understand its dynamics, recognize their own situations and realize that they are not alone in experiencing this syndrome. The author deftly combines the longstanding trauma theories of Van der Kolk, Herman, Bowlby, Krystal and others with her own experiential methods using psychodrama, sociometry and group therapy in the treatment of addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder. While designed to be useful to therapists, this book will also be accessible to trade readers. It includes comprehensive references, as well as a complete index.


The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

Author: Bessel A. Van der Kolk

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0143127748

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Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.


In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Author: Gabor Maté, MD

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1583944206

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A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.


The Trauma Heart

The Trauma Heart

Author: Judy Crane

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

Published: 2017-06-27

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0757319815

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The majority of people addicted to substances or process addictions such as relationship disorders, eating disorders, self-harming behaviors, gambling or pornography are trauma survivors. Many people caught in the web of addiction don't identify as trauma survivors until their personal, familial, intergenerational, and in-uterine history is exposed. Unfortunately, relapse is inevitable without trauma resolution that can only take place once their history is exposed. It is only when that happens that the behavior disorders will finally make sense. For almost 30 years Judy Crane has worked with clients and families who are in great pain due to destructive and dangerous behaviors. Families often believe that their loved one must be bad or defective, and the one struggling with the addiction not only believes it, too, but feels it to their core. The truth is, the whole family is embroiled in their own individual survival coping mechanisms—the addicted member is often the red flag indicating that the whole family needs healing. In The Trauma Heart, Crane explores the many ways that life's events impact each member of the family. She reveals the essence of trauma and addictions treatment through the stories, art, and assignments of former clients and the staff who worked with them, offering a snapshot of their pain and healing.


After the Tears

After the Tears

Author: Jane Middelton-Moz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-08-12

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0757393373

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Adult children of alcoholics have learned how to "survive," but often have difficulty "living" their lives. The trauma and grief of childhood losses affect every aspect of the life of an adult child of an alcoholic (ACoA). Now the authors of the bestselling After the Tears offer further insight into the origin and cost of childhood pain for those who grew up in alcoholic families. In this revised and expanded edition, Jane Middelton-Moz and Lorie Dwinell combine their years of experience in working with ACoAs, tackling issues such as intimacy, sibling relationships, codependency, breaking the alcoholic pattern, building a relationship with the inner child, forgiveness, and opening a window to spirituality.


No More Letting Go

No More Letting Go

Author: Debra Jay

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0307418251

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“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict’s loved ones has been to let the addict “hit bottom” before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers a bold new approach to treating addiction that provides a practical and spiritual lifeline to families struggling with alcohol or drug abuse. In No More Letting Go, Jay argues that the traditional advice of “letting go” too often destroys both the addict and the family physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Jay contends that addiction is everybody’s business–not just the addict’s–and addiction doesn’t have the right to trump the welfare of a family. In short, highly accessible chapters written with warmth, understanding, and compassion, Jay weaves together philosophical and religious thought; new science on the brain function of an addict; the physical and psychological impact of addiction on family members; and poignant, real-life family stories. No More Letting Go is a powerful, informative guide that provides comfort, hope, and practical advice to anyone affected by a family member’s addiction.


The Disease of More

The Disease of More

Author: Eleanor R

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9780981581835

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The Disease of More chronicles the childhood, young adulthood and current life experiences of Eleanor R., a woman who overcame great odds to recover from the diseases of alcoholism and food addiction. It is the true story of one woman's journey toward becoming the person she always wanted to be, despite her disadvantaged upbringing and her early affliction with addictions that took her to places of extreme shame and humiliation. Eleanor is every woman who struggles with self medication through food, alcohol and things. She is a mother, a wife, an influential public servant in one of the largest states in the nation, but still, after 25 years, she must get up each day and be vigilant against slipping back into cravings and her fears that she does not have enough. This book is an inspiring story of surrender and ultimate victory. Every reader will discover nuggets of Eleanor's hard-won wisdom that drive home the truth of her journey and the triumph of her courage.


Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation

Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation

Author: Suzette Boon

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 039370646X

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This training manual for pateints who have suffered severe trauma includes a short educational piece, homework sheets, and exercises that promote essential emotional and life skills.


The Betrayal Bond

The Betrayal Bond

Author: Patrick Carnes

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

Published: 1997-11

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1558745262

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Divorce, incest, child abuse, domestic violence, kidnapping . . . are situations of incredible intensity where there is an exploitation of trust or power. Dr. Patrick Carnes presents an in-depth study of such relationships, how to recognize when traumatic bonding has occurred, and the steps to take to extricate oneself or a loved one from the relationship.