Workbook for Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Book Synopsis: Note: This is the Unofficial Workbook for Complex PTSD by Pete Walker, designed to help enhance your reading experience. Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, also called complex PTSD or CPTSD, is a psychological disorder experienced by an individual when he/she has experienced repeated or prolonged trauma. This Workbook for Complex PTSD has the summary and analysis of the book Complex PTSD written by Pete Walker, a licensed psychotherapist, and more importantly, a person who has experienced trauma himself. Along with his knowledge as a professional counselor, having worked with sufferers with abusive pasts for over thirty years, Pete also imparts loads of knowledge, experience, and insights from his own personal traumatic upbringing. The result – just reading this workbook will enable you to connect to the details in different levels. The workbook covers:
Part 1 Recovering from CPTSD:

• The complete journey of recovering from complex PTSD – includes the ‘Four Fs’ of responses.
• The different levels of recovery – includes physical reactions to CPTSD, and more.
• How self-help and relational help can be of aid on the road to recovery.

Activities:
This section gives readers the ability to identify and compare their present state of recovery from complex PTSD with the information recorded in each chapter.
Checklists:
A section to make note of the crucial points to remember and implement to pave your road to recovery from CPTSD.
Action Plans:
The section helps readers come up with a detailed plan of action based on their learning from the book to reach their CPTSD recovery goals.
Part 2 The Finer Points:

• Failure to Thrive Syndrome.
• Healthy ways to implement the ‘Four Fs’ of responses.
• The subtypes of fawn defense mechanism.
• Steps to manage emotional flashbacks.
• Common inner critic attacks and self-affirmations to respond to them with.
• Resurrection through grieving and the various grieving processes.

Activities:
A section to reminisce the different aspects of complex PTSD and recovery learned in each of the Part 2 chapters and comparing the same with one’s personal condition and experience.
Checklists:
A list of the key takeaways from this part of the book.
Action Plans:
A section to reflect on the reader’s personal difficulties and set up an action plan to overcome the trauma.
Part 3 The next section of the book covers topics like:

• Managing abandonment depression.
• A therapist’s role in healing abandonment.
• The role of forgiveness in recovery from CPTSD.
• Bibliotherapy and its effects.
• Self-help tools that contribute to a person’s recovery from complex PTSD.

When you finish the book, you will find yourself with clear insights into the effects your childhood trauma had/has on your life, the ways CPTSD controlled even the basic activities of your everyday life, and the right steps to take for your healing and recovery journey to commence, so Click Buy Now and start your journey toward healing today!