Core Healing is designed to help trauma survivors move beyond trauma’s complex impact on mind, body, emotions, and relationships. Whether you want a workbook you can work through on your own or something to do with a counselor, pastor, group, or mentor, this workbook offers proven therapeutic techniques to help you heal at the core of your being, building your sense of purpose, competence, identity, safety, and belonging. Integrating biblical principles with evidenced-based counseling methods and current research in neuroscience, Core Healing is a fresh approach to help you conquer challenging obstacles.Core Healing offers transformative hope to help you enjoy life again, with practical ideas to help you move beyond anxiety, depression, helplessness, anger, and fear. You’ll learn to understand and manage trauma stored in your body so that the trauma you experienced no longer dominates your life. A wide range of grounding exercises can help you discover how to live in the present. Each of the workbook’s twelve chapters includes true stories of people who have learned to thrive after living through trauma ranging from terror attacks to abuse, from betrayal, immigration difficulties, adoption challenges, to childhood trauma, mental illness, or the loss of a job. Whether trauma slammed your life with the staggering intensity of a tornado or the lethal silence of cancer, its impact can fuel ongoing confusion. A car crash, medical procedure, bullying, or the betrayal of a friend or loved one can wreak havoc in the human ability to cope with daily life. Core Healing can help you not only understand challenges driven by traumatic stress but how to steadily move in another direction. The spiritual comfort woven throughout this workbook can help restore your ability to trust. Core Healing can help you enjoy the rest of your life!
