Your Surviving Spirit contains a series of exercises and vignettes designed to help trauma survivors transform their pain and despair into the practice of healthy well- being. The author guides readers through skill-building exercises, journal-writing activities, and the creation of their own stories and affirmations. They learn to identify the ways in which trauma has impacted their lives in mind, body, and spirit, and specific ways they can help on each level of experience. For the first time trauma survivors have access to a proven model of recovery structured in an easy-to-follow workbook format. -from the publisher About the Author Dusty Miller is a clinical psychologist, consultant, and the author of the popular trauma and addiction book, Women Who Hurt Themselves,and the treatment manual Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Healing the Body, Mind & Spirit. She is the director of the Atrium Consultation & Training Institute in Northampton, Massachusetts, which specializes in treating addiction and trauma victims, and Codirector of the Willing Spirit Retreat Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She facilitates and speaks at trauma and addiction workshops and conferences nationwide where she draws on her personal as well as professional experiences with trauma and recovery.
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