The Modern Trauma Toolkit
The Modern Trauma Toolkit

Author: Dr Christy Gibson

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2023-05-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1399802534

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Mental health wisdom and a systems-approach to trauma from a family doctor who works with people suffering from stress and community-based challenges, offering practical advice that can be personalized for readers to choose the tools they wish to practice. In the midst of collective trauma, it helps us to know how our body is built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. The Modern Trauma Toolkit directly addresses that need. Having studied brain-based and body-based approaches to wellbeing, Dr. Christy Gibson (@tiktoktraumadoc) is adept at sharing what she's learned about stress and coping with others, to embrace our innate power and to catalyze community wisdom. The Modern Trauma Toolkit shares with readers how challenges can change the body. Written in an accessible and trauma-informed way, Christy goes over new theories in brain biology like the polyvagal theory and epigenetics, and how the brain can be remodeled to achieve post-traumatic growth. Noting the inequitable stressors of modern times and faced by particular communities, she describes how their strengths can be harnessed. Dr. Gibson shares a variety of activities that can be self-taught so you can begin your healing journey.

The Modern Trauma Toolkit
The Modern Trauma Toolkit

Author: Christy Gibson

Publisher: Hachette Go

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0306831074

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Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey. Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. Having studied brain-based and body-based approaches to wellbeing, Dr. Christy Gibson teaches readers how to embrace their innate power and catalyze community wisdom. Drawing on her work with people suffering from stress and societal challenges, Dr. Gibson shares practical and effective mental health advice you can personalize. In clear and accessible language, The Modern Trauma Toolkit describes new theories in brain biology, such as the polyvagal theory and epigenetics, and explains how you can remodel your brain to achieve post-traumatic growth. While noting how particular communities face inequitable stressors, she empowers readers to identify and harness their unique and cultural strengths. Dr. Gibson shares over forty activities that can be self-taught and practiced so you can begin your healing journey today, including: Iffirmations: Reimagine affirmations to plant seeds of possibility The Container: Create your box of shame and leave it behind Havening: Discover the body's three areas that are best suited to self-soothing Solutions Studio: Catalyze change at the systems level using design thinking

The Modern Trauma Toolkit
The Modern Trauma Toolkit

Author: Christy Gibson

Publisher: Hachette GO

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780306831065

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Mental health wisdom and a systems-approach to trauma from a family doctor who works with people suffering from stress and community-based challenges, offering practical advice that can be personalized for readers to choose the tools they wish to practice. In the midst of collective trauma, it helps us to know how our body is built to respond to stress and what we might try to shift those reflexes. The Modern Trauma Toolkit directly addresses that need. Having studied cognitive and somatic approaches to wellbeing while working in low-resource practice settings, Dr. Christy Gibson speaks to all facets of healing care and mental health. Building a vibrant community on TikTok, she is adept at sharing what she's learned about stress and coping with others, to embrace the innate power we all host and to catalyze community wisdom. The Modern Trauma Toolkit shares with readers how trauma happens in the body in an accessible and trauma‑informed way. It goes over new theories in brain biology like the polyvagal theory and epigenetics, explains how trauma changes our brains, and how they can be remodeled to achieve post‑traumatic growth. She describes the trauma in modern times and faced by communities placed at risk, but how their strengths can be harnessed. Dr. Gibson shares the best ways to move towards this emergence, through different therapies and activities that can be self‑taught.

The Trauma Tool Kit
The Trauma Tool Kit

Author: Susan Pease Banitt

Publisher: Quest Books

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0835608964

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Offers insight into the causes of the mental and physical stresses of post traumatic stress disorder and provides techniques and exercises to regulate and heal the body and mind and promote recovery.

Trauma and the 12 Steps, Revised and Expanded
Trauma and the 12 Steps, Revised and Expanded

Author: Jamie Marich

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1623174694

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An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you're powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped countless people on the path to recovery. But many still feel that 12-step programs aren't for them: that the spiritual emphasis is too narrow, the modality too old-school, the setting too triggering, or the space too exclusive. Some struggle with an addict label that can eclipse the histories, traumas, and experiences that feed into addiction, or dismisses the effects of adverse experiences like trauma in the first place. Advances in addiction medicine, trauma, neuropsychiatry, social theory, and overall strides in inclusivity need to be integrated into modern-day 12-step programs to reflect the latest research and what it means to live with an addiction today. Dr. Jamie Marich, an addiction and trauma clinician in recovery herself, builds necessary bridges between the 12-step's core foundations and up-to-date developments in trauma-informed care. Foregrounding the intersections of addiction, trauma, identity, and systems of oppression, Marich's approach treats the whole person--not just the addiction--to foster healing, transformation, and growth. Written for clinicians, therapists, sponsors, and those in recovery, Marich provides an extensive toolkit of trauma-informed skills that: Explains how trauma impacts addiction, recovery, and relapse Celebrates communities who may feel excluded from the program, like atheists, agnostics, and LGBTQ+ folks Welcomes outside help from the fields of trauma, dissociation, mindfulness, and addiction research Explains the differences between being trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive; and Discusses spiritual abuse as a legitimate form of trauma that can profoundly impede spirituality-based approaches to healing.

Growing Beyond Survival
Growing Beyond Survival

Author: Elizabeth G. Vermilyea

Publisher: Sidran Press

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781886968226

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The revised edition of this popular and highly accessible toolkit incorporates new research about trauma and the process of healing. Complex concepts are clearly explained and the tools are organized progressively, building self-management skills in the most logical and effective sequence. Symptoms and behaviors typical of those who have traumatic stress conditions are thoroughly discussed, and strategies for managing and changing them are systematically offered and explained. Growing beyond Survival teaches a broad range of coping tools, allowing survivors of trauma to choose and use them according to their needs. It is a great workbook for use in individual therapy, in symptom management groups, and as a self-help approach.