A powerful guide to transcending childhood trauma—from the people who’ve done it It’s like a dark thread woven through a piece of cloth: You can’t pull it out without unraveling the whole thing. And it shows up here and there among all the other threads. Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood: The Dark Thread weaves together 90 stories of survival to create a silver lining of hope for those struggling to heal from childhood trauma. This unique book documents the endless challenges facing children and adults who have been subjected to physical, emotional, and psychological abuse, and examines the proactive coping strategies that have made their recoveries a success. Each poignant story reveals an amazing capacity for growth and an ability to adapt emotionally that offers a positive spirit to others suffering abuse. Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood: The Dark Thread examines how 90 people who have experienced childhood trauma and abuse have been able to rise above the suffering to not only endure, but prevail. In their own words, trauma survivors discuss what happened to them as children and the process they went through to become healthy, happy adults. Their stories are heartfelt, heartbreaking, and sometimes surprising in the variety of traumatic experiences, the intensity of the stress, and the number of people who were forced to deal with multiple issues in childhood, including sexual and physical abuse, alcoholism, neglect, and violence. The stories told in Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood: The Dark Thread explore: when the trauma began common feelings associated with trauma therapy and support groups getting married escaping abuse the role of religion and spirituality significant people who provided help types of homes where abuse occurred the positive effects of surviving trauma school life patterns of survival and much more Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood: The Dark Thread also includes a list of resources that might be helpful to those in the process of transcending trauma and a self-study guide for developing a deeper understanding of the healing process.

This book documents the endless challenges facing children and adults who have been subjected to physical, emotional, and psychological abuse, and examines the proactive coping strategies that have made their recoveries a success. Each poignant story reveals an amazing capacity for growth and an ability to adapt emotionally that offers a positive spirit to others suffering abuse.

Based on 275 comprehensive life interviews of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, their children, and their grandchildren, Transcending Trauma illuminates universal aspects of the recovery from trauma and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of how survivors find meaning after traumatic events.

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach considers how characteristics such as suicidality, self-harm, persistent depression, and anxiety can have roots in behaviors and beliefs that helped patients survive their trauma. This book provides practitioners with case examples, practical tips, and techniques for applying this mindset directly to their most complex cases. By depathologizing patients’ experiences and behaviors, and moving beyond simply managing them, therapists can reduce their clients’ shame and work collaboratively to understand the underlying message that these behaviors conceal.

A book that includes personal accounts and poems explores the experiences of adult survivors of domestic violence in childhood, addressing how to work with children exposed to domestic violence to address the issues before they grow up, as well as guidance on working with adult survivors. Original.

In this gripping and heart wrenching memoir, survivor Ella Frick recalls her troubled childhood which was a mix of severe, compound trauma, clueless and neglectful parents, failed relationships, identity crisis and reveals the rain pain associated with her battle to live a normal life for decades thereafter.Abuse of any kind: verbal, physical, sexual, emotional or neglect impacts children well into their adulthood. Having a past stained with abuse, makes it difficult to build relationships, succeed in school or business, have healthy romantic relationships, or be a parent, but healing and growth are possible.If you are a survivor of childhood abuse, a domestic violence survivor, a child of an addict, or someone who cares for someone affected by these life circumstances, this book is for you. It offers hope and healing with a touch of humor and sarcasm.

Did you experience trauma in your childhood? Do you feel distant from God? Do you sometimes think you are not worthy of his love? In Held Close by an Angel, 'Chrisanna Harrington courageously reveals portions of her own personal struggle of recovery and reconciliation to help you learn self-acceptance and take responsibility for your role in past relationships as well as future relationships. Chrisanna merges traditional mental health concepts with orthodox Christian values and introduces concepts of the Inner and Adult Child. She explains how abuse and trauma experienced during childhood can carry into the Adult Child's personality and social functioning by retaining feelings and beliefs experienced in childhood.' — Stuart A. Stuthers MS, LMHC, NCC It can be a painful process for the adult survivor of childhood abuse to recognize and work through the long-term suffering that was experienced. Held Close by an Angel defines the characteristics of Adult Children and the steps to heal from the abuse suffered in childhood. Join Chrisanna as she helps you to understand what makes up a healthy relationship, and remember that God is with you at all times and is there to help you move forward through the pain experienced in this world.