Complex PTSD

"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. Key concepts of the book include managing
emotional flashbacks, understanding the four different types of trauma
survivors, differentiating the outer critic from the inner critic,
healing the abandonment depression that come from emotional abandonment
and self-abandonment, self-reparenting and reparenting by committee, and
deconstructing the hierarchy of self-injuring responses that childhood
trauma forces survivors to adopt. The book also functions as a map to
help you understand the somewhat linear progression of recovery, to help
you identify what you have already accomplished, and to help you figure
out what is best to work on and prioritize now. This in turn also
serves to help you identify the signs of your recovery and to develop
reasonable expectations about the rate of your recovery. I hope this map
will guide you to heal in a way that helps you to become an unflinching
source of kindness and self-compassion for yourself, and that out of
that journey you will find at least one other human being who will
reciprocally love you well enough in that way.''