Publisher's Synopsis
If you're healing from trauma, know that you're not alone. A traumatic incident can involve active combat, a nearly fatal accident, a natural disaster, critical illness, or physical assault. It's normal to feel stressed, confused, and frightened during and immediately after witnessing or surviving a scary incident. For many people, it takes about a month to get back to feeling like their normal selves. If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, however, the effects of trauma can persist for much longer and can interfere with your everyday life. This book is a handbook for increasing your emotional intelligence. Moreover, if you are a survivor of a dysfunctional family, it is a guide for repairing the damage done to your emotional nature in childhood. The book focuses primarily on the emotional healing level of trauma recovery. It is a safe handbook for grieving losses of childhood.
