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Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress

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Easy to understand guidebook with exercises and great explanations. Helps traumatized people and those with PTSD to learn coping skills and to develop trust. The author points out that trust is essential before the person can start to heal or learn better ways to handle relationships and the problems of everyday life. Geared more towards people who were abused as children or adults in relatioships, it still has many useful tools and lessons for people with Combat PTSD. Probably most useful in combination with group or one on one therapy.

Growing Beyond Survival is a unique skills workbook empowering survivors to take control of (and de-escalate) their most distressing trauma related symptoms. This self-regulation toolkit is comprehensive, flexible, and can be used independently as a self-paced, self-help program, or in the context of individual or groups therapy. Elizabeth Vermilyea offers a variety of expressive, containment, and visualization techniques that trauma survivors can draw upon to recognize, contextualize, and understand distressing dissociative and post-traumatic reactions. Growing Beyond Survival enables trauma survivors to understand where their symptoms come from and why, as well as become able to select and make use of different coping tools and strategies for self-regulation and resolution purposes. Very highly recommended as a personal and professional trauma stress reduction reference library.

This is one of the best self-help books for trauma because it teaches useful skills. I'd recommend it to anyone who is struggling with nightmares, flashbacks, spacing out, etc. It's more for child abuse survivors, but I think the exercises would work for any kind of trauma. My therapist likes it too, and we work on these skills together.

This book has all types of exercises and teaches many techniques on coping, containment, imagery, journaling, and much more. I would imagine any trauma victim of child sex abuse would find this very helpful but it is an excellent resource for those with dissociative disorders - DID. It encourages everyone on the inside to be involved and has exercises to try to develop Coconsciousness with other alters & mapping your system. Too much information to list everything.

EXTREMELY helpful for anyone who identifies as a "survivor" and is ready for the final stage of healing.;.becoming a "TRIVER"...
all the tools fo what it takes to MOVE BEYOND (The best revenge is a life well-lived!)
I highly recommnd it

This has been a wonderful tool to have. It is a must have for therapists who work with PTSD,DID, and any clients who struggle with grounding, reality testing, impulsive bx, etc and have been through childhood abuse. I had been stuck with a client on safety issues and the safety chapter in this book was a hit with my client. Very Helpful!! Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress

While no tool kit will work for each PTSD survivor, this is a pretty good one. It has practical advice on how to take care of yourself, it is a workbook, so you get to write in it and make it your friend. It is broken up into sections for different types of needs meaning awareness, regulation of feelings and thoughts...it's interesting stuff. This could be a nice companion book to use with your therapist.

So far, just getting into the book and it's workshops. Looks like something I need after so many lost years with the VA system!