The instant New York Times bestseller

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really normal when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of normal as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today's culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society--and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté's most ambitious and urgent book yet.

A mind-body workbook for healing and overcoming Complex PTSD

Those affected by complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, commonly feel as though there is something fundamentally wrong with them--that somewhere inside there is a part of them that needs to be fixed. Facing one's PTSD is a brave, courageous act--and with the right guidance, recovery is possible.

In The Complex PTSD Workbook, you'll learn all about C-PTSD and gain valuable insight into the types of symptoms associated with unresolved childhood trauma. Take healing into your own hands while applying strategies to help integrate positive beliefs and behaviors.

Discover your path to recovery with:

• Examples and exercises--Uncover your own instances of trauma with PTSD activities designed to teach you positive strategies.
• Expert guidance--Explore common PTSD diagnoses and common methods of PTSD therapy including somatic therapy, CBT, and mind-body perspectives.
• Prompts and reflections--Apply the strategies you've learned and identify PTSD symptoms with insightful writing prompts.

Find the tools you need to work through C-PTSD and regain emotional control with this mind-body workbook.

With practical, immediate ways to establish a mindful connection with our bodies, The Vagus Nerve Reset is an introduction to the nervous system, and helps us tap into our body's innate capacity to process and return to a state of safety, transforming the way we respond to every kind of challenge in life.

Feeling anxious and disconnected are signs of a nervous system that's out of balance. Something as small as a curt message from your boss can be perceived by your body as a threat--which triggers a change in your vagus nerve (a cranial nerve that runs from your brain to your abdomen). In The Vagus Nerve Reset, somatic therapist Anna Ferguson offers easy tools and exercises, grounded in the science of Polyvagal Theory, to help train your nervous system to stop overreacting and start responding more calmly to day-to-day stressors. By tuning in to your vagus nerve you can gently shape your nervous system to achieve greater resilience, improved sleep and digestion, relief from anxiety, and healing from past traumas.

• The power of somatic therapy: learn how to work with your body to change the way you feel, think, and behave to become more resilient
• Positively change your mood and behavior: you'll assess how your vagus nerve is functioning, then incorporate practices such as breath, touch, movement, and intention to grow your connection to your body
• Polyvagal Theory made easy: understand the underlying principle of how the nervous system regulates feelings of safety and how one responds to experiences in the world

With this ALL-IN-ONE guide, workbook, and journal, you'll turn life's challenges into golden opportunities through shadow work, ultimately transforming into the best version of yourself

Everyone has a dark side - that part of yourself you're not quite proud of and try to hide from others.

Many wish they could keep their dark traits - or shadow self - under wraps.

However, this side of yourself shouldn't be ignored no matter how they make you feel. In fact, there are more consequences for ignoring your shadows than accepting them.

There is no better way to embrace your dark side than through shadow work.

Don't be intimidated by the concept of exploring your inner darkness-there's nothing wrong with uncovering, acknowledging, and understanding your full self.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung is often credited for conceptualizing the practice of shadow work and giving us a practical framework to use when tapping into this hidden identity. The framework involves accepting that you have a dark side and taking the steps to learn more about this aspect of yourself.

Fortunately, this book equips you with all the essentials for embracing your emotions and shadows through a simple yet effective personal growth technique. It caters to both beginners and experienced readers alike, offering a deep dive into navigating the depths of your inner self, suitable for men, women, and couples.

Here's just a fraction of what you will discover within the pages of this life-changing resource:

• Unique 3-Step System was carefully designed to walk you through the shadow work process
• A step-by-step complete and comprehensive guide to identifying your shadows - understand how you can integrate them into your character to create a more whole and fulfilled you
• 160 thought-provoking and illuminating shadow work journal prompts to get you started on your self-discovery and personal growth adventure
• Everything you need to know about managing and coping with the emotions you'll feel when embracing your shadows, no matter how turbulent or calm they may be
• Surefire steps to overcome the common challenges of practicing shadow work - set yourself up for success and feel like a whole new 'you'
• How to use shadow work as an effective tool in trauma recovery and relationship repair... and why it has helped others flourish in these areas of personal growth
• Tips to celebrate your transformation, plus find out how to reap the positive long-term effects of shadow work for years to come
• 8 amazing workbook activities to easily incorporate shadow work into your daily life-making it a more interactive and enjoyable process!

And much more.

There's simply nothing like embarking on the journey of self-discovery and coming out on the other side more content, confident, and whole.

Let shadow work bring these gifts to your life... and more!

If you want to reclaim your life with self-acceptance and personal growth, then click the Add to Cart button right now.

Thoroughly researched, clearly explained, and beautifully illustrated...[this book] provides powerful insights and actionable steps for regulating the nervous system.
--Alex Korb, Ph.D., Neuroscientist, Personal Development Coach, and Author of The Upward Spiral

A somatic approach to treating trauma, anxiety, and depression has never been more popular. Perhaps that's because recent studies show that 80% of mind-body communication originates in the body --the vagus nerve is the superhighway that facilitates this communication.

Healing Through the Vagus Nerve walks you through how the nervous system and the vagus nerve function, with approachable, non-academic language and helpful illustrations. Amanda Armstrong (founder of Rise as We) teaches all about vagal tone and the impact it has on your mental health and everyday life. Then, a variety of exercises and practices provide an adaptable approach to improving nervous system function:

• Breathing techniques including diaphragmatic breathing, physiological sigh, voo breath, and the Valsalva technique
• Massage techniques for the ear, neck, and abdomen
• Visual techniques including lateral eye stretches, eye pushups, orienting, eye cupping, and gaze opening
• Physical techniques including cold exposure, yoga, and more

Featuring relatable client stories, key details of the author's own journey healing her nervous system, and a selection of entry points to help engage with the process, Healing Through the Vagus Nerve is a complete guide to improving your stress response through optimizing your vagus nerve and nervous system.

Learn how to work with your nervous system instead of against it.

A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD contains research-based strategies, tools, and support for individuals working to heal from their childhood trauma. You don't have to be a prisoner of your past.

Repetitive trauma during childhood can impact your emotional development, creating a ripple effect that carries into adulthood. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) is a physical and psychological response to these repeated traumatic events.

Learn the skills necessary to improve your physical and mental health with practical strategies taken from the most effective therapeutic methods, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and somatic psychology. When appropriately addressed, the wounds of your past no longer need to interfere with your ability to live a meaningful and satisfying life.

This book will have you:

• Understanding C-PTSD--Get an in-depth explanation of complex PTSD, including its symptoms, its treatment through various therapies, and more.
• Addressing your symptoms--Discover evidence-based strategies for healing the symptoms of complex PTSD, like avoidance, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness.
• Relating to real stories--Relate to others' experiences with complex PTSD with multiple real-life examples included in each chapter.

Let go of the pain from your past with A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD!

A compassionate, practical guidebook for veterans transitioning from active duty to civilian life and for the loved ones supporting their journey.

Challenging yet reassuring....a key addition to every veteran's packing list . --Stan McChrystal, General, US Army (Ret) and Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group

Some important statistics:

• There are over 22 million veterans alive today
• Each year, more than 200,000 new veterans transition out of active duty.
• Approximately 22 veterans commit suicide a day, and even more are living with PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), struggling with substance abuse, homelessness, and experience many, many other difficulties.

It's clear that we have not honored the promise we make to veterans: that we as a country will help them after they've served and sacrificed. And while there are many books written by and for veterans, only a small selection of those address the transition to civilian life, and none are a truly complete reference for stepping out of service and back into normal life. Warrior to Civilian covers a range of topics, from the practical--finding a job, reintegrating into family life--to the more challenging topics, like dealing with loss, and finding new purpose in life. This well-curated resource incorporates stories, insights, and observations from veterans and their partners; evidence-based advice from health professionals and experts who work closely with veterans; and inspiration taken from heavyweights like Jon Kabbat-Zinn and Tony Robbins. The authors take care to address the unique challenges faced by veterans of color, and those in the LGBTQ+ communities.

With support from some of our country's most recognizable military members, authors Rob Sarver, a former SEAL, and Alex Gendzier, combine their voices and their experiences in and out of the military in a unique way that will make this resource shine. Scaffolded by the hero's journey, in which the hero experiences a series of transformative events, they reveal that within the loss that many veterans have suffered while serving and suffer in the transition, there is great opportunity for healing.

The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book--now revised and expanded--has been translated into 10 languages. Originally developed for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this evidence-based approach is now also used to treat adults and children with complex trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, addictive behavior problems, and other clinical problems. EMDR originator Francine Shapiro reviews the therapy's theoretical and empirical underpinnings, details the eight phases of treatment, and provides training materials and resources. Vivid vignettes, transcripts, and reproducible forms are included. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size.

New to This Edition
*Over 15 years of important advances in therapy and research, including findings from clinical and neurophysiological studies.
*New and revised protocols and procedures.
*Discusses additional applications, including the treatment of complex trauma, addictions, pain, depression, and moral injury, as well as post-disaster response.
*Appendices with session transcripts, clinical aids, and tools for assessing treatment fidelity and outcomes.

EMDR therapy is recognized as a best practice for the treatment of PTSD by the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the World Health Organization, the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, and other health care associations/institutes around the world.

#1 New York Times bestseller

Este libro transforma la manera en que abordamos el trauma y nos ofrece nuevos caminos para sanar las heridas y liberarnos de la tiranía del pasado.

El trauma es un hecho de la vida. Los veteranos de guerra y sus familias lidian con las dolorosas secuelas del combate; uno de cada cinco estadounidenses ha sido abusado sexualmente; uno de cada cuatro creció con alcohólicos; una de cada tres parejas ha padecido violencia física.

El Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, uno de los principales expertos mundiales en trauma, ha pasado más de tres décadas trabajando con sobrevivientes. En El cuerpo lleva la cuenta, utiliza avances científicos recientes para mostrar cómo el trauma literalmente remodela tanto el cuerpo como el cerebro, comprometiendo las capacidades de los afectados para el placer, la participación, el autocontrol y la confianza.

Con millones de ejemplares vendidos alrededor del mundo, este libro explora tratamientos innovadores, desde la neuroretroalimentación y la meditación hasta el deporte, el teatro y el yoga, que ofrecen nuevos caminos hacia la recuperación al activar la neuroplasticidad natural del cerebro.

Basado en la propia investigación del Dr. van der Kolk y en la de otros especialistas líderes, El cuerpo lleva la cuenta expone el tremendo poder de nuestras relaciones tanto para herir como para sanar, y ofrece una nueva esperanza de recuperación.

Una lectura esencial para cualquier persona interesada en comprender y tratar el estrés traumático y el alcance de su impacto en la sociedad. - Alexander McFarlane, Director del Centro de Estudios de Estrés Traumático

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#1 New York Times bestseller

Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society. --Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre or Traumatic Stress Studies

A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence.

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments--from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga--that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity.

Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal--and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

This insightful workbook introduces you to somatic therapy, an approach that helps release emotional and physical stress that is trapped in the body, so you can process your trauma and begin to heal.

Heal from trauma and find inner calm using somatic therapy. Trauma lives on in both the mind and the body, and focusing on the body-mind connection is a powerful tool for healing.

Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma provides:

• Evidence-based techniques--Learn what somatic therapy is, how it works, and the key methods.
• Somatic therapy in practice--Use writing prompts, bodywork, and breathing exercises to regulate the nervous system and bring the mind and body into balance.
• A sense of calmness--Discover how somatic therapy can help you feel calmer, happier, and more anchored.

Release the effects of trauma from your body and mind with somatic therapy by reading this mental health workbook!

While returning home might seem like the easy part, for many veterans, the transition back to civilian life after months in a war zone is almost as difficult as the deployment itself.

In Warrior Withdrawal, Varpas de Sa Pereira, PsyD, explores this phenomenon by describing his own experiences with combat and the stories of veterans struggling to adjust to normal life.

When Varpas, a US Marine, returned home after a tour in Iraq, it wasn't the restful break from gunfire and taking orders that he had hoped. He was irritable and angry and itched to return to the battlefield. After his eighth tour to a combat zone, he tried to treasure the precious time he had with his wife and kids, but he couldn't get the clarity of purpose he'd had while deployed out of his mind.

After deploying several more times, searching for some thing he was missing, he finally retired and went back to school to study clinical psychology. It was then that he realized what he had experienced was not abnormal. Many veterans, for whom being a warrior is ingrained in their psyche, struggle to adapt to life outside the military, often leading them to mental health challenges. Varpas coined this as Warrior Withdrawal Syndrome and now works as a psychotherapist to help veterans facing difficulties in their newfound lives.

Whether you're a veteran or a loved one of a veteran, Warrior Withdrawal is a fantastic tool to help you understand the effects of combat on servicemen as well as work to overcome the desire for deployment.

With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding around us, how can therapists adapt to promote healing and growth?

As these intriguing essays make clear, some of the finest minds in the world are thinking through the problems and arriving at powerful answers.
--Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, educator, activist, and founder of Third Act

With essays from Francis Weller, Bayo Akomolafe, Hāweatea Holly Bryson, and more

Western psychotherapy views our practice as a way to bring clients back to baseline normal. But our society's normal is profoundly unwell: our ways of being reflect the same unsustainable systems that erode our ecosystems, accelerate global destruction, and ultimately extract our humanity. Moving toward healing and purpose in uncertain times means evolving the way we do therapy and the way we think about mental health.

Editor and climate psychologist Steffi Bednarek invites us to co-create a field that navigates unknown futures with skill and grace--one that helps clients build resilience and holds space for the uncertainties unfolding before us. She and 32 contributors explore ideas like:

• Decolonizing therapy
• Using therapeutic tools to respond to trauma
• What psychologists can offer movements for social change and climate justice
• Helping clients recognize and move past unhelpful responses to climate emergency
• Nurturing creativity in the face of crisis

Holistic and intersectional, this collection reckons with the ways power, colonialism, and capitalism impact our myriad crises--while shaping Western psychology as we know it.

With essays by clinicians from both the Global South and Global North, Climate, Psychology, and Change is an anthology unlike anything you've read before: a necessary response, an urgent appeal, and a fearless look forward at how we care for our clients, eyes wide open, with compassion and skill in an uncertain world.

With groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is in and fail to recognize how resilient people really are.

After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

In The End of Trauma, pioneering psychologist George A. Bonanno argues that we failed to predict the psychological response to 9/11 because most of what we understand about trauma is wrong. For starters, it's not nearly as common as we think. In fact, people are overwhelmingly resilient to adversity. What we often interpret as PTSD are signs of a natural process of learning how to deal with a specific situation. We can cope far more effectively if we understand how this process works. Drawing on four decades of research, Bonanno explains what makes us resilient, why we sometimes aren't, and how we can better handle traumatic stress.

Hopeful and humane, The End of Trauma overturns everything we thought we knew about how people respond to hardship.

Radical Self-Care for Helpers, Healers, and Changemakers addresses the constant exposure to heartbreak and injustice that can take a toll on the mental and physical health of those in the helping professions. After more than twenty years as a social worker, author Nicole Steward shares her own challenges with burnout and offers practical solutions to tackle the deeply-rooted causes of overwhelm that helpers face, which include compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and moral injury. Steward's solutions go beyond mere stress-reduction techniques; rather, she offers a framework for engaging in radical self-care.

Here readers will discover a way of being that prioritizes helpers and healers, so they can better serve others without sacrificing their own health and wellness. This book offers foundational strategies that challenge the current systems that contribute to the high rates of burnout and turnover in the human and social service professions. By taking radical care of themselves, helpers can take a more effective and resilient approach to their work, ultimately leading to liberation for both themselves and those they serve.

Release tension, boost your mood, and heal from traumatic experiences with therapist-approved activities in this easy-to-use guide to somatic therapy.

The effects of a traumatic event are more than just mental. Trauma can manifest in the body as chronic pain, sluggishness, and even depressed mood. Somatic psychology is an alternative therapy that analyzes this mind-body connection and helps you release pent-up tension and truly heal from past trauma. The Somatic Therapy Workbook offers a primer to this life-changing approach as a means for personal growth, designed for beginners or those already using somatic techniques in their current therapeutic process. Ideal for those suffering from PTSD and other trauma-based afflictions, this safe and approachable look at somatic therapy includes:

- journal exercises
- body-centered prompts for personal inquiry
- movement exercises
- real-life experiments

Readers will come away with a new ability to process and accept their emotions and an understanding of how to live a somatically-oriented and embodied life.

Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth. In order to grow, we must make use of our suffering in order to find our happiness.

Within these pages, you will find an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own life journey. A hero's journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This interactive format calls for journaling and self-reflection, with practices that guide you beyond the pain of your past and help you discover a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. Successful navigation of a hero's journey provides opportunities to discover that you are more powerful than you had previously realized.

Written by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, bestselling author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, this healing guide provides a step-by-step approach to trauma recovery that integrates:

• Mindfulness & yoga
• Somatic psychology
• EMDR therapy
• Parts work therapy
• Relational therapy

Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind.

Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without addressing the physiological imbalances that trauma leaves in its wake.

Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery bridges this path of healing between the psyche and the body by walking you through the sacred practice of yoga so you can release the burdens of trauma from your body and mind.

Grounded within the principles of polyvagal theory, affective neuroscience, and trauma-informed care, this book will help you gain a better understanding of how our brains and bodies respond to stress and trauma and offer a self-led healing journey toward feeling more empowered, grounded, clearheaded, inspired, and at ease.

With her innately compassionate and gentle guidance, Dr. Arielle Schwartz introduces you to the power of the yogic philosophy and offers a variety of accessible yoga poses and breathing practices that will allow you to:

• Nourish your nervous system
• Reconnect with your body
• Ground yourself in the present moment
• Release unresolved patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or faint
• Widen your ability to tolerate emotional discomfort
• Develop a felt sense of resilience
• Anchor yourself in self-love
• Reclaim connection with and trust in your body
• Create a personalized yoga practice for your own self-care

The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members. Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It's with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, MD, a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental health care, presents Once a Warrior-Always a Warrior, a groundbreaking resource with essential new insights for anyone who has ever returned home from a war zone. In clear practical language, Dr. Hoge explores the latest knowledge in combat stress, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), other physiological reactions to war, and their treatment options. Recognizing that warriors and family members both change during deployment, he helps them better understand each other's experience, especially living with enduring survival skills from the combat environment that are often viewed as symptoms back home. The heart of this book focuses on what's necessary to successfully navigate the transition-LANDNAV for the home front. Once a Warrior-Always a Warrior shows how a warrior's knowledge and skills are vital for living at peace in an insane world.

A courageous, compassionate, and rigorous every-person's guide (Christina Bethell, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) that shows the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) ​and diseases, and how to cope and heal from these emotional traumas.

Your biography becomes your biology. The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults, but it also affects our physical health, longevity, and overall well-being. Scientists now know on a bio-chemical level exactly how parents' chronic fights, divorce, death in the family, being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic, or mentally ill parent can leave permanent, physical fingerprints on our brains.

When children encounter sudden or chronic adversity, stress hormones cause powerful changes in the body, altering the body's chemistry. The developing immune system and brain react to this chemical barrage by permanently resetting children's stress response to high, which in turn can have a devastating impact on their mental and physical health as they grow up.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa shares stories from people who have recognized and overcome their adverse experiences, shows why some children are more immune to stress than others, and explains why women are at particular risk. Groundbreaking (Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance) in its research, inspiring in its clarity, Childhood Disrupted explains how you can reset your biology--and help your loved ones find ways to heal. A truly important gift of understanding--illuminates the heartbreaking costs of childhood trauma and like good medicine offers the promising science of healing and prevention (Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart).