The mind/body connection... do you understand how this effects trauma victims?

Don't really understand what sort of assistance you're asking for:

• information about how trauma affects neuropsychological / social cognitive processes -- the formal stuff -- van der Kolk's book "The Body Keeps the Score" is great for this
• resources for doing this healing
• personal stories

There're heaps of resources -- many available on the internet -- for this topic -- attaching one I just downloaded that came with an automatic alert I set up in Google

Of course, if it's the last, it's the hardest to do, sometimes, yet often what appeals most to the buying public for your book

Russell Wilson posted:

Don't really understand what sort of assistance you're asking for:

• information about how trauma affects neuropsychological / social cognitive processes -- the formal stuff -- van der Kolk's book "The Body Keeps the Score" is great for this
• resources for doing this healing
• personal stories

There're heaps of resources -- many available on the internet -- for this topic -- attaching one I just downloaded that came with an automatic alert I set up in Google

Of course, if it's the last, it's the hardest to do, sometimes, yet often what appeals most to the buying public for your book

Thank you very much Russell for your enlightening comment to my post.

To answer you:

No, I don't know what I am asking for specifically—just insight—perhaps inspiration—maybe direction or even courage.

And I do have a personal story—mine. Did you see the PDF in my post?  The young girl in the picture is me. I have spent the last 15 years of my life researching, pondering and writing to understand what happened to her—and to heal her/my injured mind/body connection.

Now I want to share what I have learned. There are many articles written from the outside looking in—My story is written from the inside looking out.

Congratulations, and you have my 100% support. You will need all of the things you mention, and two others -- good, consistent, non-judgemental support from another, hopefully knowledgeable, person; and good preparation.

Personally, I believe the sharing of the story is the only way things will change for the better for other survivors. If you look here you'll see some of the sharing I've done http://russwilson.coffeecup.com/my_story.html

It's only part of the story, and in part came about, not only after many years, but after the suicide of a friend, another survivor.

Around that time I came upon, through the internet, guidelines for how to share "lived experience" -- but  I couldn't find it recently -- maybe lost in converting from one computer to another. Maybe Jane, or someone else, has some suggestions? Be prepared for the possibility that such sharing might re-open some old wounds.

All the best to you, always available via PM.

Janie- Also check out Peter Levine's books. Peter is the creator of Somatic Experiencing which is a gentle, body based method for healing trauma. He has many books. You could start with Waking the Tiger.

Katie McClain posted:

Janie- Also check out Peter Levine's books. Peter is the creator of Somatic Experiencing which is a gentle, body based method for healing trauma. He has many books. You could start with Waking the Tiger.

There're basically two easy, "pop psych", starting points for this sort of material -- Psychotherapy Networker, and NICABM -- National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine --  (even SoundsTrue -- but this is also more "fringe pop", less formally recognised) which have mailing lists which will keep you appraised of their latest offerings in the area,"try before you buy"  but there's also a lot of "free samples" in this area, and other material to be found either on the internet (e.g., Levine's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUL8HU-SSs8) or on the websites of people in this group ;-D -- especially if you like drinking coffee out of a cup!

I also particularly like Pat Ogden's book on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy -- lots of worksheets etc etc so while "Waking The Tiger" is dirt cheap on Kindle, the paper version of Ogden's book is more "useful".

Other resources available from these sites includes one guy that'll help you write "your book" to share your experiences with others -- I can't remember his name, so -- Katie, any ideas?

And then there's the formally respected journals, e.g., this article -- which causes even me to wish they'd studied more, but the article is even more important

http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...d=raven_sd_aip_email

but somehow I think you might not wish to be that far   ;-D

Thank you Russel and Katie. Much food for thought. I will take a careful look at your suggested materials.

BTW Jeanne Segal's website has helped me so much. Here is her website— since we are sharing.

https://www.helpguide.org/emot...oolkit/step-four.htm

Thanks, looks really good, but there's as many different "how to" approaches to learning mindfulness as there grains of sand on the beach. What works for YOU is best, and your path will involve many "side excursions" making your path your own. You know what they say "if you meet the Buddha along your way, kill him" (especially relevant to a Theravada Buddhist)

 Happy, safe, travelling. 

Janie Lancaster posted:

Thank you Russel and Katie. Much food for thought. I will take a careful look at your suggested materials.

BTW Jeanne Segal's website has helped me so much. Here is her website— since we are sharing.

https://www.helpguide.org/emot...oolkit/step-four.htm

Incidentally, that guy who promotes himself as being able to help people with their writing is Bill O'Hanlon

http://www.billohanlon.com/ohanlon/products2.html

https://possibilities.leadpage...-title-report-offer/