Paths to Recovery After Abuse and Trauma

Paths to Recovery After Abuse and Trauma, by Dr. Carol Francis, provides hundreds of tools assisting those who have endured, escaped and survived abuse and trauma of all sorts. Each survivor of abuse and trauma has a unique experience and, of course, each survivor has their own unique paths to recovery. Instead of providing one cookie-cutter approach to recovery, Dr. Carol Francis offers hundreds of approaches and tools. Interfacing with the on-line Series of Courses and Classes on AbuseTraumaRecovery.com and the group interface at Facebook - Abuse and Trauma Recovery Group, this book tackles issues, dilemmas, and horrors, which experiencers of abuse and trauma face after they have escaped. Dr. Carol Francis, Clinical Psychologist, and Psychotherapist for over 40 years, helps readers with concise usable techniques, healing exercises, meditations, creative visualizations, hardcore research, daily routines, self-explorations, and interactions that surpass the "self-help" standard of a few approaches and instead offers hundreds of tools or paths to use. Depersonalizations, fugue states, dissociation, self-harm, self-blame, victimization, victim looping, harms and helps of forgiveness, releasing the past, the 12 R's of Recovery, details of 40 useful psychotherapies, spiritual or soulful approaches to healing, releasing and thriving, 8 Laws of Successful Living during and beyond recovery, relationships after abuse and trauma, GRIT of pressing forward, Resilience, fear, PTSD, Chronic PTSD and much more are explored in this resource. Dr. Carol Francis details these tools for all of those who have survived trauma and abuse of all different types including those who survived combat battles and deployment to war zones, severe loss and death, physical and sexual abuse, psychological mind-control by con artists and narcissists and abusers, being catfish or gaslighted, childhood chronic abuses, rape or molestations, shootings, robberies, murders, sudden deaths of loved ones in tragic situations, natural disasters or manmade disasters. Dr. Carol Francis interfaces with audio and video materials which are found at the Series of Courses associated with this book AbuseTraumaRecovery.com, which really helps individuals who learn and recovery differently. You can choose what you want to do and when based on your style of learning. Some prefer to listen to interviews, watch videos of discussions, write journals, physically move to heal, artistically express to emote pain, meditate to evolve, and so much more. Dr. Carol Francis introduces equipment and techniques that combine neuro-biofeedback, biofeedback, hypnotherapy, guided imagery, and auto-suggestions or affirmations. No matter your style of learning or your style of changing, this book with its many resources will help you change from survivor to thriver tailored to your way, your style, and your timing. Dr. Carol Francis has written 18 self-help books geared to help people live lives worth living regardless of their circumstance, perspectives, and tribulations. Dr. Carol Francis has helped thousands recover, living lives that embody joy, success, satisfaction, and resolution. Read more