Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
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Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.
However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma.
Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate their journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers:
Step-by-step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experienceWorksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately rejuvenation
From the Publisher
Publisher : PESI Publishing & Media; 1st edition (February 1, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 120 pages
ISBN-10 : 1683733487
ISBN-13 : 978-1683733485
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.28 x 11 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book helpful for understanding trauma and providing relief. They describe it as a wonderful resource for therapists working with people who have experienced childhood trauma. Readers praise the content as great and saying it makes sense. While some find the material dry at times, overall they consider it helpful and understandable.
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Amazon Customer –
Remarkable and compel
This is one of the most important writings in present day psychotherapy. For both therapist and patient it covers every aspect of trauma and builds the staircase of understanding from childhood trauma to present day behaviors . The material is highly understandable, hits the nail on the head and helps the reader to understand and cope with the many layers of trauma that they may have experienced in their life. The book also empowers the reader to find solutions that work in changing unwanted behavior. In essence it makes the legacy of trauma manageable in a way that the individual can initiate and understand how to be successful in coping with the unseen fallout from trauma.
BD –
This Book is Gold
Highly recommend to survivors of multiple traumas, but especially those diagnosed with Complex-PTSD (C-PTSD). Was introduced to this book in intensive PTSD treatment and helped me understand… myself. It provided the foundation I needed to begin legitimate healing after over a decade of nearly zero progress with misguided therapeutic techniques and related diagnoses. It will never leave my bookshelf.
Katia –
Delivery
I am so glad I ordered this book. So far it is an excellent read and helping me. Thank you for the delivery.
Cassie Webb –
Brilliant and Necessary!
Transforming the Legacy of Trauma was a short but impactful book. I spoke about this book so much that I thought I had written the review in 2023. The author provided one of the best manuals to identify how, when, what, and who is traumatized. She then highlighted ways to alert us when we are interacting and triggered by fears or triggers.She extensively explained the human brain from birth through adolescence. Her research was a huge eye-opener and deeply intrigued me. She established through case studies and examples how our mind/brain develops, ages, grows, activates, and sometimes, parts of the brain shuts off. She revealed how even basic things can trigger a person into unhealthy behaviors and not always for the reasons we speculate.She spoke about our bodies none verbal memories. This book reconfirms that trauma does not disappear, but we can learn to mitigate our response with direct and mindful work. This pivotal work has many applications for home, school, office, prisons, private therapy, human resources, military, police, etc.The Legacy of Trauma is a terrific book that should be read, shared, treasured, and referenced often. It was one of my best reads for 2023. There is also an accompanying workbook and a list of resources to continue learning.
Amy Phoenix –
Very Supportive for Psychoeducation, with three recommendations
Janina Fisher offers straightforward, clear information to help trauma survivors understand the impacts on their systems, along with ways to change these impacts in present time and moving forward for actual healing. Working in groups with women who’ve experienced multiple violations and often turn to substances, this resource is key for supporting them in taking their power back so they can choose to understand and take care of themselves differently.Giving it 4 stars (rather than 5) for 4 reasons, and offer these suggestions:Could be formatted to include more engaging graphics. Reads a bit dry at times, but the material is still helpful.Mentioning that children masturbate to soothe themselves can be confusing and triggering for some, not sure it needed to be included to get the message across that humans self soothe. Can open up a whole discussion that takes away from the client’s situation.Using the terms hyperarousal and hypoarousal can also be triggering, and some much prefer the terms hyperactivated and hypoactivated.Could place the worksheets right next to the area where they’re recommended, rather than at end of the section.Overall, very grateful for this resource.
ere –
Must Read
Dr. Fisher pinned my inner dialogues. This is a must read book for anyone who experienced childhood trauma. So much makes sense and I feel a sense of hope that has been missing for many years.
Customer –
Life changer
This book is a life changer for anyone dealing with trauma. You need to have a therapist to do this with to get the most out of it
MissBee –
Advanced Battered Woman’s Psychotherapy
This Book Is (Psychotherapy)–Enlightening Of How Our Brain Reacts To Trauma!
Ken C –
A phenomenal workbook, written with much empathy, gentleness, kindness, patience, grace, backed by years of research. Designed to help anyone who has lived through trauma/abuse. As stated in the book, it was written for trauma survivors.I was introduced to the work of Dr. Janina Fisher by my friend (60 year old man and survivor of extreme childhood trauma). I started to explore her work on YouTube, watching her discuss, explain and expound on the growing knowledge-base in the field of trauma research ( most of her lifeâs work) and the significant advances in understanding trauma, PTSD and BPD (borderline personality disorder). Discovering her work, lead me to a profound epiphany in my life which I had never before considered (Iâm a 46 year old male), I asked myself âAm I a trauma survivor? As I continued to examine my own childhood, my past, my past relationships, my behaviors, my hurts, my habits, my life patterns etc. through this new lens of trauma I became cautiously, excitedly optimistic that I may have possibly, unintentionally uncovered an answer, an explanation as to why I have always been the way I have been, is it possible that Iâm not simply crazy? I always labelled my self as defective, broken, difficult. Could it be that there was, in fact, more to me than that? I was convinced that this could be the missing piece to this messy life of mine that never quite made sense to me. I was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist with BPD- it was so exciting! I was happy and relieved that I could finally begin to make sense of myself. Also, I was very hopeful for the future, for healing.I bought this book hoping to gain more knowledge, clarity, understanding and hopefully practical tools to help me on my road to my health and recovery. Armed with this diagnosis of BPD, I slowly, thoughtfully, carefully read through this book and do the exercises. I am amazed at how uncanny the descriptions, explanations in the book as it relates to the lived experience of a trauma survivor are not just similar but are almost EXACT descriptions of my own lived experience! It was as if this book was written just for me. Like it was my life story! I couldnât believe how accurately this book was describing my life. This workbook is filled with exercises and re-usable worksheets to help you through your trauma recovery journey. It can be used on your own or as an adjunct to your existing professional therapy. For sure, the things you will learn about yourself will be invaluable information that can help your therapist to better help you. Itâs super easy to read and understand, complex theories, ideas are explained in easy-to-understand terms.The way in which a trauma survivor has become conditioned to live in a world after a trauma experience or experiences. How a trauma survivor processes the world, why they react, behave and cope with life is all a part of the living legacy of trauma.This workbook is helping me tremendously with understanding my trauma-self. Anyone with a trauma-related diagnosis (complex PTSD, PTSD, attachment disorder, BPD etc.) must read this book!
Stephen –
Great book for a therapist!
JasminaC –
Dieses Buch hilft einem sich wieder “normal” zu fühlen.
Aldo –
Piavevole
Kapil Sakhuja –
I was waiting for this one for last few weeks. It was an easy to read book, engaging, filled with useful practical information, written with compassion and a lot of wisdom, experience.