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    Healing Childhood Trauma: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Post-Traumatic Growth
    Healing Childhood Trauma: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Post-Traumatic Growth
    Healing Childhood Trauma: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Post-Traumatic Growth
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    Healing Childhood Trauma: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Post-Traumatic Growth

    By Robin Marvel and Bernie Siegel

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    Post-traumatic stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, substance abuse, depression, a lack of confidence and many other mental and physical ailments may be a result of childhood trauma you have endured. Uncovering, accepting and healing this childhood trauma will allow you to let go of the pain, releasing yourself from the guilt, shame and self-destruction you have been living with. This book will provide you with tools and strategies to heal your childhood trauma allowing you to live fully.

    • Pinpoint the areas of struggle in your life now that are a reflection of the childhood trauma you endured
    • Tackle limitations by learning how childhood trauma can be healed and forgiven
    • Strategize an effective plan that will take you from struggle to success
    • Discover hands-on strategies and plans to heal, recover and let go of the limits imposed on your daily living due to childhood trauma

    "Robin Marvel's Healing Childhood Trauma shares the wisdom of what her experience with the pain and trauma of life taught her. When we ask ourselves what the pain of our experience feels like, the words we use tell us what needs to be eliminated from life that will allow us to heal."
    -- Bernie Siegel, MD, author of 365 Prescriptions For the Soul and The Art of Healing

    "Robin Marvel hits a homerun with Healing Childhood Trauma. It's not just a book for reading--it's also a workbook that helps the adult survivor of childhood trauma find a new focus and develop new understanding of themselves while embarking on a healing journey."
    -- John Patrick McCarron, Louisiana ambassador, National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse

    "Healing Childhood Trauma provides insights and personal growth tips that will give the reader the permission to approach trauma in a positive way. The hands-on approach with self-reflection exercises throughout this book will help move PTSD victims to champions of life. This is the go-to book on recovering from childhood trauma. Bravo!"
    -- Michael Levitt, CEO of Breakfast Leadership, author of 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenarios

    "Robin's basic message is that each of us has the power of choice: to change our self-perception, to forgive others, to be grateful, to heal and to take action. More importantly, readers will understand that there is no set timeline for healing. Each of us is unique and responds to trauma and adversity in our own personal way. Robin herself is a pillar of strength, wisdom and guidance that inspires all of us to take control of our lives and make the difference our world needs."
    -- Anita Casalina, writer and director of Imaginary Walls: A Film About Healing Racism

    "In a personal yet poignant voice, Healing Childhood Trauma by Robin Marvel helps us understand why some people remain defined by their childhood trauma while others define new empowered paths of healing and growth. Marvel weaves together a compassionate blend of trauma exploration and anecdotal evidence supported with self-help exercises, mapping out a process for readers to transform their pain into purpose. This little book is not light. It just may change your perspective on how you live the rest of your life"
    -- Holli Kenley, MA, MFT, author of Daughters Betrayed By Their Mothers: Moving From Brokenness To Wholeness

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLoving Healing Press
    Release dateFeb 29, 2020
    ISBN9781615994984
    Healing Childhood Trauma: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Post-Traumatic Growth
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    Robin Marvel

    Robin Marvel is a multi-published author and nationwide motivational speaker in the field of self-development. She has taken the negative situations she was dealt throughout her life and turned them into motivation and purpose, getting audiences on their feet, participating in the empowerment of their lives. Her books include the "Awakening Consciousness" series for boys, girls, and women as well as "Reshaping Reality". She is a frequent contributor to "Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing" She current lives in a small town in Northern Michigan with her four girls and husband Keith. You can find her online at www.robinmarvel.com.

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    Healing Childhood Trauma - Robin Marvel

    Introduction

    It is not the burden we carry—it is the way we carry it.

    Post-traumatic stress is a reality for 60 percent of men and 50 percent of women. Although everyone experiences at least one trauma, most endure much more than that. Not only does trauma affect the person experiencing the event, but it also ripples out to the people in that individual’s life, leaving a wake of pain.

    Post-traumatic growth (PTG), a groundbreaking understanding developed in the mid-1990s by psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun, can be understood and utilized in daily living to turn pain into purpose, encouraging healing instead of staying stuck in victimhood. In this book, I’ll show you how to use your traumatic experiences and all the emotions involved to explore growth that will lead you to a life of strength, confidence, success, and happiness—both personally and professionally. It is time to let go of the adversity and hurt you have been carrying around.

    We all suffer accidents, loss, disasters, and other adverse experiences. The idea of being able to gain positive change through such events seems to go against what we have been taught. Nevertheless, more and more people each day have chosen growth and strength versus allowing their trauma to define who they are. They are taking charge, making their lives more purposeful and meaningful, and proving that adversity can strengthen

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