The Trauma Heart: We Are Not Bad People Trying to Be Good, We Are Wounded People Trying to Heal--Stories of Survival, Hope, and Healing
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (504 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0757319815 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is also the founder of Spirit2Spirit Healing, offering trauma training to professionals and healing trauma intensives to clients. She is the founder of The RefugeA Healing Place, which grew to become one of the foremost leaders in treating trauma/PTSD and addiction. at Rutgers and M.A. from New York Institute of Technology. Her presentation and seminars on trauma, resilience, PTSD and sexual trauma resolution are known throughout the world. About the AuthorJudy Crane (Ocala, FL) earned her B.A. She is a Certified Addiction Professional in Florida, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, a Certified Hypnotist, EMDR and a specialist for healing trauma and PTSD. Most recently, she established The Guest House, in Ocala, Florida, a luxury treatment center offering cutting-edge treatment for trauma and addiction in an elegant setting. She has nea
Her presentation and seminars on trauma, resilience, PTSD and sexual trauma resolution are known throughout the world. She is the founder of The RefugeA Healing Place, which grew to become one of the foremost leaders in treating trauma/PTSD and addiction. She is also the founder of Spirit2Spirit Healing, offering trauma training to pro
"The Trauma Bible - Please buy this book!" according to Dan D.. This is an outstanding book oriented around Judy Crane's work throughout her career in issues related to trauma and addiction. I have never written a review, but this book has been so transformational for me that I feel the need to review it in the hope that others who are searching for answers might be led to read it. I suspected for years that I might have some residual i. "A massive synthesis of a vast subject" according to Hamish Adam. Addicts of all stripes, in accordance with their twelve step programs, locate the beginning of their histories at the point of their first drink or drug, or their first addiction-generated crisis. There's nothing inherently wrong with this traditional methodology. It makes a good start on confronting the addiction and its consequences.However, the ghastly' hard and cold sta. Doug Witt said Unravel the story to understand the behaviors. I've read many books on addiction and mental health, but Judy's new book struck a chord for me. Her mantra, "when you unravel the trauma story, the behaviors make sense," is special. It gently reframes the shaming labels of selfishness and self-centeredness to one of self-preservation. The behaviors, though not the best, were for the purpose of protection and self-preservat
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. In The Trauma Heart, Crane explores the many ways that life's events impact each member of the family. The truth is, the whole family is embroiled in their own individual survival coping mechanismsthe addicted member is often the red flag indicating that the whole family needs healing. For almost 30 years Judy Crane has worked with clients and families who are in great pain due to destructive and dangerous behaviors. It is only when that happens that the behavior disorders will finally make sense. 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 majority of people addicted to substances or process addictions such as relationship disorders, eating disorders, self-harming behaviors, gambling or pornography are trauma survivors. Unfortunately, relapse is inevitable without trauma resolution that can only take place once th