Traumatic experiences leave a "living legacy" of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.
However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma.
Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate the healing journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers:
Traumatic experiences leave a "living legacy" of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.
However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma.
Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate the healing journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers:
"Reading Janina Fisher's wonderful, generous and beautifully
written book reminds me of how much we, as a profession, have
learned in only three short decades. This book beautifully
articulates how mind and body adapt to intolerable feelings of
terror, self-loathing and fear of abandonment with a range of
ingenious solutions to create some semblance of safety and control.
These adaptations endure over time, and eventually tend to
interfere with having satisfying relationship with one's self and
others. Janina shows us that healing traumatic wounds consists of
learning new habits of observation and self-discovery. The goal of
treatment is not so much digging up the past, but the repair of the
injuries suffered as a result of traumatizing experiences. It's a
marvelous and easily accessible work that should be part of every
therapist's skill set."--Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of the New
York Times bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score
"Written with her characteristic hopefulness and clarity, this
workbook showcases Janina Fisher's unique gift of getting to the
essence of things. Complex theories are transformed into simple,
easily understood, useful concepts that teach clients to make sense
of their symptoms, to befriend their coping strategies, and to
practice effective skills to relieve their suffering. Most
importantly, this book will inspire the confidence to realize that
healing is possible for even the most traumatized survivor."--Pat
Ogden, PhD, author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for
Trauma and Attachment and The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor
Psychotherapy
"In this succinct and well-organized volume, Janina Fisher distills
the essence of modern trauma theory and the deep wisdom of her
decades of clinical experience. The result is a welcome,
reader-friendly primer for personal use or to support professional
work with trauma survivors. "--Gabor Maté, M.D., author of In The
Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
"This workbook is an extraordinary gift for therapists and clients
alike. With her trademark compassion, Dr. Fisher succeeds in
de-pathologizing and simplifying the complexities of the cognitive,
somatic, emotional, and behavioral residue of trauma."--Lisa
Ferentz, LCSW-C, author of Letting Go of Self-Destructive
Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing
"Renowned trauma recovery pioneer, Janina Fisher offers a superb,
user friendly, and comprehensive guide to healing for all trauma
survivors and for therapists as well. Grounded in expert knowledge
of neurobiological, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma walks
readers step by step through an effective process of deep, lasting
change, looking both at childhood injuries and at lifelong
adaptations to them. Practical, smart, and wise, this book has the
power to change your life."--Terry Real, LICSW, author of The New
Rules of Marriage and founder of the Relational Life Institute
"Janina Fisher and I have long followed parallel paths promoting
greater attention to stabilization in trauma therapy. Here she
furthers her careful, educational, common sense, and resource-rich
approach, filling a much-neglected niche in the trauma self-help
literature. Fisher successfully balances illuminating commonalities
of post traumatic conditions while encouraging readers to select,
portion, and pace individualized healing paths. This book provides
an excellent adjunct to any course of trauma therapy or personal
self-help."--Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, author of The Body
Remembers, Vols. 1 & 2 (2000 & 2017) & 8 Keys to Safe Trauma
Recovery (2010)
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