Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

by Pete Walker

In fact, much of the plethora of loneliness, alienation, and addictive distraction that plagues modern industrial societies is a result of people being taught and forced to reject, pathologize or punish so many of their own and others’ normal feeling states.

deeper psychological health is seen only when you can maintain a posture of self-love and self-respect in the times of emotional hurt that accompany life’s inevitable contingencies of loss, loneliness, confusion, uncontrollable unfairness, and accidental mistake.

emotionally oriented right-brain and under-activate the thinking-oriented left-brain.

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Bibliotherapy is a term that describes the very real process of being positively and therapeutically influenced by what you read.