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It is copiously illustrated with examples of my own and my clients’ journeys of recovering. This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes – in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy…or alone! The causes of Cptsd range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd. I have Complex PTSD and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. Pete Walker – Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma File Size: 288.83 MB, Format File: 1 – Ebook Each of us has within us the capacity to grow in compassion, understanding, patience and love and to recognize the ugliness of self-righteousness, contempt, criticism and condemnation regarding things such as trauma resulting in addiction.Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes – in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. Meanwhile I hope these little bits of wisdom in this blog give you pause for thought and an encouragement to be compassionate towards anyone who displays any of the symptoms of unresolved trauma, especially those caught in addiction. I am hopeful there will be a way for others to see this documentary sometime in the future. It seems others also found his foresight about the wisdom of trauma deeply moving. I have shared the link with many people this past week during this limited window in which the documentary was available and have gotten back so many comments. He is humble and deeply compassionate towards others.
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Maté is very transparent about his own trauma story. It’s a remarkable way to frame, nurture and support others and also ourselves. I think there is great encouragement in finding wisdom in trauma. He talks briefly about how parenting practices that are promoted as healthy and acceptable, like letting children cry it out when they are upset or distressed, create the very beginnings of the trauma that affect someone later in life. In showing some of his group therapy sessions, he makes it clear that he does not condemn families for the ways they might not have been able to fully nurture their children because he appreciates that they too were victims of trauma, of loss, of the freedom from their own suffering. And this comes in the form of addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling or any other destructive behavior that numbs the pain. All that is suppressed in childhood by necessity things like anger, fear, loneliness, physical pain, abandonment, and the requirement to stop feelings and behave in artificial ways, results in a level of suffering that requires relief. He continues that addiction is a way to escape suffering. Without addiction a person experiences profound emptiness, and they are desperate to cover up their pain. He also condemns punishing those who are addicted because he does not see addiction as their fault. He chastises societal views of addiction as something someone chooses. Our focus should not be on why someone is addicted but rather on why someone is in pain. When it comes to understanding addiction, he says that all addiction has trauma at its roots.