Finding Your Best Self
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Finding Your Best Self

Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both

  1. 269 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Finding Your Best Self

Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both

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About This Book

Addiction and trauma are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between addiction and trauma and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter where you are in your recovery. Every chapter features inspiring words from people who have "been there, " plus carefully designed reflection questions, exercises, and other practical tools. Learn how you can: *Build coping skills so that the future is better than the past.
*Keep yourself safe and find support.
*Set your own goals and make a plan to achieve them at your own pace.
*Choose compassion over self-blame and shame.
*Move toward your best self--the person you want to be. If you are a family member or friend seeking to support a loved one--or a helping professional--this book is also for you. Now in a convenient large-size format, the revised edition features added materials for professional and peer counselors. Mental health professionals, see also the author's related treatment manuals for trauma and/or addiction, Seeking Safety (present-focused) and Creating Change (past-focused).

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Publisher
The Guilford Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781462539970
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Psychiatry & Mental Health

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Finding Your Best Self
  3. Also by Lisa M. Najavits
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Exercises
  8. Preface
  9. 1. Moving forward from addiction, trauma, or both
  10. 2. Starting out
  11. 3. “Things turn out okay” – David’s experience
  12. 4. It’s medical – you’re not crazy, lazy, or bad
  13. 5. How do people change?
  14. 6. The world is your school
  15. 7. Listen to your behavior
  16. 8. Wish versus reality
  17. 9. Find your way
  18. 10. Possible selves
  19. 11. The language of trauma and addiction
  20. 12. Safe coping skills
  21. 13. Social pain
  22. 14. True self-compassion
  23. 15. Why trauma and addiction go together
  24. 16. Forgiving yourself
  25. 17. Body and biology
  26. 18. Getting to a calm place: The skill of grounding
  27. 19. The culture of silence
  28. 20. Motivation: Leverage one problem to help another
  29. 21. Tip the Scales recovery plan
  30. 22. Every child is a detective
  31. 23. How to survive a relapse
  32. 24. See the link
  33. 25. Practice
  34. 26. Identity: How you view yourself
  35. 27. Perception: How others view you
  36. 28. The decision to grow
  37. 29. Dark feelings: Rage, hatred, revenge, bitterness
  38. 30. Imagination
  39. 31. Create a healing image
  40. 32. Find a good counselor
  41. 33. Two types of trauma counseling
  42. 34. What the wounded can give back
  43. 35. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
  44. Appendix A. How others can help – family, friends, partners, sponsors
  45. Appendix B. How to conduct Finding Your Best Self as a counseling or peer model
  46. Appendix C. Resources
  47. Appendix D. Excessive Behavior Scale
  48. Appendix E. Brief quiz on trauma and addiction: Knowledge is power
  49. References
  50. Index
  51. About the Author
  52. About Guilford Press
  53. Discover Related Guilford Books