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Presence After Trauma

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Presence After Trauma: Reconcile with Your Self and the World

ISBN: 9780983903819
290 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″ paperback

$24 Print book via PayPal (US only).

EPUB, Kindle, and PDF, immediate download $9.99

Also available from Powell’s, Amazon, Apple Books, and Google Play.

Presence after trauma is an ongoing exploration of willingness to accept what is, and willingness to allow it to change.

With this book, gather gentle, effective healing tools, including the many facets of acceptance. Discover your body’s structure so you can move more fluidly and take up space confidently. Even in the face of abusive and everyday gaslighting, rebuild self-trust. Manage ongoing trauma effects more skillfully and know that hard times will still come and go. Leave behind the isolation of trauma to rejoin the challenges and rewards of relating.

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Preview the Table of Contents and excerpts here.

Beautifully crafted, thoughtful articles explore and affirm the ways in which gentleness and self-compassion are essential in our ongoing healing from the consequences of trauma.—Robyn Posin, Ph.D., author of “Go Only As Fast As Your Slowest Part Feels Safe To Go”

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$24 Print book via PayPal (US only).

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NOTE: Paypal orders from outside the US will be refunded, as I am not set up for international postage. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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