The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience and Awaken Your Potential

Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth. In order to grow, we must make use of our suffering in order to find our happiness.

Within these pages, you will find an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own life journey. A hero's journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This interactive format calls for journaling and self-reflection, with practices that guide you beyond the pain of your past and help you discover a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. Successful navigation of a hero's journey provides opportunities to discover that you are more powerful than you had previously realized.

Written by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, bestselling author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, this healing guide provides a step-by-step approach to trauma recovery that integrates:

- Mindfulness & yoga

- Somatic psychology

- EMDR therapy

- Parts work therapy

- Relational therapy

Arielle Schwartz, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, EMDR Therapy consultant, certified yoga instructor, and writer with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado. She is a specialist in mind-body approaches to healing trauma. She is a trainer for therapists and specializes in PTSD, Complex PTSD, Therapeutic Yoga for trauma, Resilience, and Post Traumatic Growth, . She believes that all people deserve to be empowered by knowledge and is dedicated to offering informational mental health and wellness updates through her heartfelt community presentations, social media presence, and blog. Her psychotherapy practice is called resilience informed therapy which offers an integrative, strength-based approach to trauma treatment.