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. You deserve to exist exactly the way you are right now.
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.
Sonia Connolly, LMT, author of Wellspring of Compassion, helps sensitive trauma survivors regain self-trust and peace through intuitive, compassionate bodywork in Portland, Oregon. Her writing about trauma is inspired by 17 years of client sessions and 25 years of self-observation while healing from abuse. Visit TraumaHealed.com for more articles and resources.
"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"