WellWriting for Health After Trauma and Abuse

By Ellen H. Taliaferro

This book shows you how to use express writing to: overcome pain and Illness, reduce stress and overcome negative emotions, and take action from wherever you are. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976635208
• ISBN13: 9780976635208
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Creekside Communications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Monique Rider's book review

WellWriting for Health After Trauma and Abuse: Five WellWriting Ways to Regain Your Health and Life by Ellen H. Taliaferro, MD, FACEP. Review by__Monique Rider___ Dr. Taliaferro's book is insightful and inspiring. It is packed with practical and useful information for those struggling with the affects of abuse. Of particular interest to me are the areas on anger, forgiveness, and how the body says 'no'. Dr. Taliaferro addresses some important points about learning to let go and using anger constructively. How often our bodies speak to us and we do not listen! Dr. Taliaferro drives home the point of becoming aware of our bodies and learning to trust them. Trust is such a sensitive issue when one has a background of abuse. The trust must first begin within, and listening to the body is how it all starts. It was also very helpful to be given the opportunities and prompts to journal throughout the book. I found that feelings were surfacing throughout the book and it helped to have a reminder to stop and journal. Dr. Taliaferro addresses the whole issue of stress. After all these years of working to overcome my past, I still find that many of my stressors relate right back to my abuse. That is frustrating but at least now I can recognize it almost right away. Dr. Taliaferro validates the fact that many of the affects of abuse linger for a very long time. And she offers helpful tools to keep the reader moving forward. I was happy to see all of the resource links provided in the book. For anyone needing support, information, and direction the many resources will help immensely. Dr. Taliaferro's book offers a refreshing and uplifting way to deliver information about a painful topic. I also enjoyed reading about her experiences as a physician. I would highly recommend this book. © Copyright 2005 Monique Rider. You have permission to publish part or all of this article electronically or in print, in your newsletter, on your website, or in your e-book, as long you maintain the hyperlinks in the article for web or e-book publication and include the following information: "Written by Monique Rider, transition coach, author and wellness expert. Monique can be contacted through [...] A copy of your reprint or publication would be appreciated.

Personal writing for abuse survivors used as a healing tool.

This book is about what happens when the abuse stops. A person may be safe but still not feel safe. There may be overwhelming fear, guilt, or sadness that has to be expressed somehow in order to heal. Dr. Taliaferro's book shows how personal writing can be a big part of that process. The book is easy to follow and has some wonderful exercises. It's warm, positive, and looks toward the future. Highly recommended.

Valuable Book to Help Steer You Out of Abusive Relationships

I love Dr. T's book. As a person with abuse in my past, the book really spoke to me. Before I read the book, there was so much of my life that I had blocked out due to the pain of confronting the abuse. I realized that it was time to remember who I was and stop being afraid. The exercises in the book served as the perfect vehicle for helping me to discover and explore many of my old beliefs that kept me a victim. The book validated me and helped me to understand that I chose to be a victim long after the abuse. Now I am a survivor. I make choices based on having a conscious awareness and not based on old patterns of behavior. This book is a Godsend! Thank you, Dr. T.

This book brings help and hope for the helpless and hopeless

I was so inspired by and impressed with the sensitivity and insights included in this book, that I have to recommend it to anyone who has suffered trauma, but more importantly to those who help victims of trauma. Psychologists, therapists, and family counselors as well as anyone who works with those suffering from physical or psychic injury, will benefit from reading the book and sharing information from it with patients. The book helped me!

Write Yourself Well and Happy

Dr. T's book is practical and useful. It will help anyone get over any type of trauma, not just abuse. The writing exercises helped me with grief and loss.