Arielle Schwartz - Böcker

Rewire your nervous system for lasting calm, connection, and resilience with cutting-edge, polyvagal theory-based activities.Whether you've suffered a single traumatic experience or faced repeated difficult life events, you can be left feeling hypervigilant, irritable, and disconnected. Daily tasks like attending a work meeting or social gathering can feel overwhelming or even frightening. Most therapies for treating trauma require you to "revisit" your traumatic experience in potentially triggering ways. In this cutting-edge workbook, best-selling author and trauma expert Arielle Schwartz provides a practical, body-based method to help you treat your trauma symptoms-without reliving your trauma or being exposed to triggers.The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm. You'll begin by getting to know your nervous system, including an exploration of polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve. You'll also learn soothing, body-based practices to help you rewire your nervous response, including rhythmic movements (EMDR and tapping), conscious breathing, mindful movement, and more. Self-reflection and journaling prompts will help you get the most out of every chapter, and a comprehensive collection of tools will help you stay on the path to trauma recovery.You don't have to relive your trauma in order to heal. With this powerful workbook, you can take charge of your mental health, build resilience, and feel safer and more connected. T

This book is written to meet the growing interest in a synthesis of somatic psychology with EMDR Therapy as a comprehensive trauma treatment model. Interventions are presented as scripted protocols to enhance embodiment within the 8-phases of EMDR Therapy. This integrative treatment model teaches therapists how to increase the client’s capacity to sense and feel the body which is a necessary part of helping the client work through traumatic memories in a safe and regulated manner in order to facilitate lasting integration.Grounded in the science of interpersonal neurobiology, therapists are guided to increase their own embodied awareness which provides a foundation for an attuned therapeutic rapport, a core component of successful trauma treatment. In all, readers will come away with advanced ways to help clients reclaim their lives from the costs of PTSD.

This book focuses on the intersection of polyvagal theory, yoga and psychotherapy by weaving together the wisdom tradition of yoga with neuroscience, attachment theory, somatic psychology and traumatology. The application of polyvagal theory allows practitioners to compassionately support growth by enhancing the health of the autonomic nervous system, while therapeutic yoga allows one to attend to the interrelationships between mind, emotions, physiology and behaviour.Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga provides:Conscious breathingVagal toningMindful movementMeditation practices that aid in rewiring the nervous systemReaders will discover how to help both clients and themselves cultivate a felt sense of ease during times of safety; enhance their capacity to handle challenges with equanimity; and reclaim their ability to recover from stress swiftly and efficiently. Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga offers practitioners a new and effective way to support clients who are stuck in a trauma response mode.

'What a great resource for understanding and managing PTSD' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A profoundly supportive and essential method for healing from trauma and grief' Wendy Stern, Founder and Executive Director, The Grief Support Network'Offers powerful somatic therapy tools for deep healing' Donna Roe Daniell, LCSW**Healing tools and deep insights to help you heal from childhood trauma and begin to thrive again**If you are affected by complex PTSD, you probably feel that somewhere inside you there is a part that needs to be fixed. Facing unresolved childhood trauma is a brave, courageous act - and although it is difficult, with the right guidance, you can do it. Clinical psychologist Dr Arielle Schwartz has spent years helping those with PTSD find their way to wholeness. She also knows the territory of the healing firsthand, having walked it herselfIn 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, while you learn how to integrate positive beliefs and behaviours.· You'll understand more about the common PTSD misdiagnoses that confuse it with bipolar disorder, anxiety, depressive disorders and substance abuse (among others)· You'll get explorations of PTSD therapy including somatic therapy, EMDR, CBT, DBT and mind-body healing· You'll have chapter takeaways to encourage therapeutic journalling and deeper understanding of your symptoms. Take the path to healing with The Complex PTSD Workbook and regain a life of wellness that no longer seems out of your reach.

Reclaim yourself from childhood trauma—evidence-based strategies for healing complex PTSDRepetitive 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. 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.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 includes:Understand C-PTSD—Get an in-depth explanation of complex PTSD, including its symptoms, its treatment through various therapies, and more.Address the symptoms—Discover evidence-based strategies for healing the symptoms of complex PTSD, like avoidance, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness.Real stories—Relate to others' experiences with complex PTSD with multiple real-life examples included in each chapter.Start letting go of the pain from your past—A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD can help show you how.