A very useful guide to trauma - the author explains clearly how trauma impacts on us, and how trauma lives on through the years. Eye-opening and enlightening. But this book is about healing, and there are both case studies and exercises, which you can do on the journey to understanding and healing.

This book was a relatively quick read providing easy to understand information about how we’re affected by trauma and how we can heal. Although I’ve already read quite a bit in this area, I still learned new things, and I found the book to be a very good overview, written in a very friendly, soothing voice. I found the chapters on how trauma affects relationships and sexuality to be particularly helpful.

The author has done a nice job of alternating theories, research, case studies, and exercises. Dr. Babbel provides many citations, but she writes in a way that is never dry or boring. I think this book will be really helpful for anyone who has experienced trauma or wants to better understand a loved one who has experienced trauma. That’s probably most of us.

If you create an account on New Harbinger’s website and register this book to your account, you can access the supplementary material. At the time of this review, I was able to download an MP3 of a guided relaxation exercise to promote restful sleep.

I was provided an ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review. Because I have not seen the final published version, I cannot comment on the final editing and formatting. The ARC was neatly formatted and had only occasional proofreading errors.

A great self-help book with sound advice and good exercises. It is easy to read and follow through. I've learnt something from it.

I have now read this book through three times and each time I gain further understanding of trauma that we face daily.

Very Very well written and thought provoking. Can be technical at times but if you are reading with concentration then it shouldnt be too difficult to follow and understand - I found if my mind started to wander then I lost my way in the book which is good as it brings you back to the present moment and learning how to deal with your emotions.

Perfect book for real grounding.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book which I have already pre-ordered a paperback copy of for adding my own notes and comments to use as a map on my way forward.

I love being able to read book that can help me with processing the road to heal myself.
This book did just that. This book gave me many new ideas and processes on how to deal with & when different problems would arrive.
I want to be more present and focus on myself.
This was a great book to read if you need help fighting that fight.

As a former cancer patient I've read a few books about healing and handling a trauma, and this book is a very good guide. It explained the condition you are in after experiencing a trauma and made aware why it's so important to get out of the post traumatic situation and move on. The authors set up categories of traumas and lead you through ways to handle the aftermath in a very understandable and acceptable way which, in my opinion, is the key of having success - a lot of the other self-help books I read had more of a "you have to...!" than helping the reader to find out of its own situation at first which is somehow the most difficult part of everything and necessary for any healing.. If you're willing to follow their lead of finding your way out, I believe you're doing a good thing to give it a try with this guiding nook. It's a well-thought through but careful self-help book which I would and will recommend to everyone who faced a trauma.

This is one of the best books on self-help that I have read so far. Having gone through a life-threatening medical condition, I know how trauma feels like. It is so saddening to know that most of our fears, anxiety and negative thinking is the result of a bad childhood experience. Reading this book helped me understand my problems as well as how to deal with trauma. The exercises mentioned at the end of chapters are really good and easy to follow. With examples and explanations, the author has really made it simple for someone like me, who is not a student of psychology, understand the human mind better.
Thank you NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications for the ARC.