*The author is vulnerable which spoke to me from a 1 to 1 view rather than from a preachy place. *He explains why, if you’ve done a certain therapy before, it may not have “worked”. There is not a one size fits all solution. *He offers a swiss-army knife approach to working through the trauma. *Depending on which group you fall into, he gives key strategies to how you approach things and ways to recover in your style. *He breaks down the survivor types and their characteristics into four groups, all which seemed spot on. *Though acknowledging the trauma of physical and sexual abuse he primarily focuses on the the severe scarring of emotional abuse, abandonment, and neglect. *The author speaks from experience as both a survivor and a therapist. There are many elements that make this self-recovery book stand above others for me. The author is grounded in that he himself has struggled with trauma recovery and it’s palpable that he wishes to impart the strategies and wisdom he has found to work for himself and others. Complex PTSD is one of the best books I’ve read on childhood trauma recovery.ĭespite the long title, the book itself is not complex nor is it written in psycho-babble ra-ra.
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