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After a traumatic experience, we are told time and time again to take care of ourselves and reach out to the people we love. But what happens when you reach out and your partner can't reach back? This book is for people in relationships where either partner has faced trauma in any of its forms: violence, natural disasters, war, life-threatening accidents, crime, health problems, or loss of a loved one. One or both partners can useHealing Together to recover from trauma or help their partner recover by understanding the impact of trauma, learning to communicate their needs, managing anger, dealing with traumatic memories, recapturing lost intimacy, and recognizing their resiliency as a couple. The practical, step-by-step program presented in this guide is inspired and informed by the authors' clinical experiences with patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and their work with firefighters and their partners in the aftermath of 9/11. In the wake of tragedy, this book can help you build a resilient relationship and move forward with compassion, hope, and love. Healing Together is a beautiful book... an invaluable resource that will help couples face their traumas together. -Sue Johnson, Ph.D., professor of psychology at University of Ottawa and author ofHold Me Tight… (more)
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Once I got a bit into it I started getting into the really helpful stuff for my situation. They have short exercises that they get you to work on throughout with you and your partner to start the converersations you need to have in order to heal. It's just super well done. I am HIGHLY recommending it to everyone I know with trauma in their past. Those who are just starting their healing journeys and those like me who are well into it. I am also putting up a review and spreading the news on various book review websites. It was one of my more expensive trauma books, but it's proving very helpful and extremely well written. It addresses all the main things you're going to be struggling with if you are recovering from trauma and working on yourself AND your intimate relationships with partners.
I did find some of the examples of feelings and symptoms that can come up triggering. But the stories they had in the book, even those close to my traumas I was fine with. I guess that's just part of the fun of PTSD. You are fine with some stuff until you're not and other stuff you just aren't good with period.
So I do recommend having someone of support near by as you read and work through the exercises (most are setup so you do them together), because you may need someone to step in and re-ground you and calm your anxiety and such down.