Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

by Dena Rosenbloom, Mary Beth Williams

Trauma can turn a person's world upside down-- afterward, nothing may look safe or familiar. This supportive workbook helps trauma survivors find and use crucial skills for coping, self-understanding, and self-care. Even when the worst has happened, this book shows how it is possible to feel good again. Filled with comforting activities, relaxation techniques, self-evaluation questionnaires, and exercises, the workbook explains how and why trauma can throw you for a loop and what survivors can do now to cope. Chapters guide readers step-by-step toward reclaiming a basic sense of safety, self-worth, and control over their lives, as well as the capacity to trust and be close to others. Readers learn how to protect themselves from overwhelming memories and to heal from trauma-related reactions that may be disturbing their day-to-day lives. Written by experts in treating trauma and based on extensive research, the workbook can be used on its own or in conjunction with psychotherapy.

Updated throughout, the second edition has a new section on managing emotions through mindfulness and an appendix on easing the stress of health care visits. The larger trim size makes it easier to work through the dozens of engaging questionnaires and exercises.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Health, Nonfiction, Ebooks, Social Work, Unfinished

295 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2010

Reviews

[Bridgett · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this workbook useful in understanding the human needs to feel safe, to trust, to feel control over your life, to feel value and value others, and to feel close to others and how these can be affected after a trauma. Some of the exercises were repetitive, but I liked some of them.

[Lindsay · Rating 2 out of 5]

This wasn't as informative and helpful as The PTSD Workbook was. The exercises were the same for each chapter so I ended up skipping a lot since I was rewriting the same thing.

[malrubius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good stuff. Lots of exercises. Based on ACT (Assess, Choose, Take Action) therapy. Good advice to pursue what you value in life.

[Zachary Ransom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enhancing Trauma Awareness, Lakeside Global Institute, 12/2022

[Ken Mika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for working through teams on your own.

[❄Elsa Frost❄]

Paused (on page 50).