Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress

By Elizabeth G. Vermilyea

The revised edition of this popular and highly accessible toolkit incorporates new research about trauma and the process of healing. Complex concepts are clearly explained and the tools are organized... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886968098
• ISBN13: 9781886968097
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Sidran Pr
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT WORKBOOK FOR TRAUMA SURVIVORS - DID

This book has all types of exercises and teaches many techniques on coping, containment, imagery, journaling, and much more. I would imagine any trauma victim of child sex abuse would find this very helpful but it is an excellent resource for those with dissociative disorders - DID. It encourages everyone on the inside to be involved and has exercises to try to develop Coconsciousness with other alters & mapping your system. Too much information to list everything.

Growing beyond survival

EXTREMELY helpful for anyone who identifies as a "survivor" and is ready for the final stage of healing.;.becoming a "TRIVER"... all the tools fo what it takes to MOVE BEYOND (The best revenge is a life well-lived!) I highly recommnd it

really helpful

This is one of the best self-help books for trauma because it teaches useful skills. I'd recommend it to anyone who is struggling with nightmares, flashbacks, spacing out, etc. It's more for child abuse survivors, but I think the exercises would work for any kind of trauma. My therapist likes it too, and we work on these skills together.

Great Manual for learning Trust and Coping after trauma

Easy to understand guidebook with exercises and great explanations. Helps traumatized people and those with PTSD to learn coping skills and to develop trust. The author points out that trust is essential before the person can start to heal or learn better ways to handle relationships and the problems of everyday life. Geared more towards people who were abused as children or adults in relatioships, it still has many useful tools and lessons for people with Combat PTSD. Probably most useful in combination with group or one on one therapy.

A unique skills workbook empowering survivors

Growing Beyond Survival is a unique skills workbook empowering survivors to take control of (and de-escalate) their most distressing trauma related symptoms. This self-regulation toolkit is comprehensive, flexible, and can be used independently as a self-paced, self-help program, or in the context of individual or groups therapy. Elizabeth Vermilyea offers a variety of expressive, containment, and visualization techniques that trauma survivors can draw upon to recognize, contextualize, and understand distressing dissociative and post-traumatic reactions. Growing Beyond Survival enables trauma survivors to understand where their symptoms come from and why, as well as become able to select and make use of different coping tools and strategies for self-regulation and resolution purposes. Very highly recommended as a personal and professional trauma stress reduction reference library.