Walker Pete. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 216 p.The causes of CPTSD range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes – in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous.
If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body.
This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life.
This book also contains an overview of the tasks of recovering and a great many practical tools and techniques for recovering from childhood trauma.
Key concepts of the book include managing emotional flashbacks, understanding the four different types of trauma survivors, differentiating the outer critic from the inner critic, healing the abandonment depression that come from emotional abandonment and self-abandonment, self-reparenting and reparenting by committee, and deconstructing the hierarchy of self-injuring responses that childhood trauma forces survivors to adopt.
The book also functions as a map to help you understand the somewhat linear progression of recovery, to help you identify what you have already accomplished, and to help you figure out what is best to work on and prioritize now. This in turn also serves to help you identify the signs of your recovery and to develop reasonable expectations about the rate of your recovery.An Overview of Recovering
The Journey of Recovering From CPTSD
Levels of Recovering
Improving Relationships
The Progression of Recovering
The Fine Points of Recovering
What If I Was Never Hit?
What is My Trauma Type?
Recovering From Trauma-Based Codependency
Managing Emotional Flashbacks
Shrinking the Inner Critic
Shrinking the Outer Critic
Grieving
The Map: managing the Abandonment Depression
A Relational Approach to Healing Abandonment
Forgiveness: Begin With The Self
Bibliotherapy and the Community of Books
Self-Help Tools