Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Powerful finale for a year of satisfying reading. I'll be listening to this one again and may purchase a hardcopy for underlining.

Walker explains the responses to childhood trauma (fight, flight, freeze, faun) with clarity along with practical wisdom to participate in personal healing from complex PTSD. Accessible and helpful. I found my own experience described as well as striking profiles of people I know (and/or by whom I have been wounded).

A worthy addition to any biblio-therapy collection and excellent companion for a journaling practice. Highly recommend.

A few 5 stars insights in here that have helped me but it's structured in a meandering style that becomes less and less focussed as it continues. Definitely a keeper for me but felt like it lacked editorial oversight.

not useless, just alienating.
everything about this felt like it's fresh out of the 70s -- so, fifty years out of date. heavy on the exclamation marks, heavy on i'm-okay-you're-okay, and case studies that read like they're lifted from an AA manual. the writing is oddly clumsy, a mix of jargon and patient's quotes meant to shock, but the swears are all bleeped out and the jargon is bolded and heavily defined. it's like an undergrad level 101 text, i mean, and i'm glad that works for people but it surely isn't working for me.

In the journey from traumatic childhood to fully realized adult, this book is a travelers guide with complete routes and lots of details to experience along the way. It is so worthwhile to have a guide. My copy is tattered and smudged with notes.

Uncomfortably and incredibly eye opening, which means it is essential for you to read.

"For without access to our uncomfortable or painful feelings, we are deprived of the most fundamental part of our ability to notice when something is unfair, abusive, or neglectful in our environments" (31).