Developmental trauma is the result of early relational experiences that include birth trauma, attachment trauma, separation trauma, being unwanted, and a host of intergenerational patterns. Developmental trauma is an increasingly important area in the field of traumatology, one that has been validated and supported by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) research findings. They showed that early childhood trauma has a pervasive impact on long-term mental and physical health Developmental trauma is distinctly different from PTSD, which is caused by event trauma later in life. People remember event trauma, but usually have little recall of developmental trauma. It typically appears later in life in intimate relationships, and is a major cause of recycling conflicts during adulthood. Developmental trauma has deep and long-lasting effect on child development and causes chronic and degenerative diseases in adulthood, as shown by the ACEs research findings. Because it occurs in close relationships, it must also be healed in a relational context. This book describes how the growing emphasis on developmental trauma has become a game-changer in the mental health profession, challenging old beliefs about its relevance and impact on physical and mental health. It also describes how it can be a catalyst for personal transformation and meaning-making of adversity in childhood.

Developmental Trauma: The Game Changer in the Mental Health Profession

Education & Teaching

Weinhold PhD, Barry K.

Weinhold PhD, Janae B.

Schools & Teaching

CICRCL Press

This book presents a radically new approach to leadership at all levels. Drawing on ancient principles first proposed by Lao Tsu, a sixth century B.C. Chinese philosopher, the author presents a new, and refreshing look at what a future world might look like if we had more servant leaders at all levels. The book describes the characteristics of a servant leader and the optimal personal development of this kind of leader. The key to the self-development of the servant leader is his/her ability to create a fully individuated Self. In addition, servant leaders need to integrate both the masculine and feminine sides of their personality. These personal achievements will enable them to truly serve others, without the interference of ego or other manipulations. The book is organized by first presenting an overview of servant leadership; what it is and what it isn’t. Then the book describes the optimal personal development of a servant leader. This is followed by a description of some of the various obstacles to overcome. After each chapter that describes obstacles, there is a chapter offering strategies for the servant leader to use as an agent of change to overcome these obstacles.

The Servant Leader: What the World Needs Now (The Real Men Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

LOVEvolution: A Heartful Approach for Healing Developmental Trauma, presents an integrative, three-part approach for identifying and healing Developmental Trauma. In this book, Janae presents a scientific framework that correlates the mother-child attachment system with the immune system, and shows attachment trauma as the primary cause of chronic and degenerative diseases later in life. The heart, which is at the core of this Mind|Body system, is damaged by attachment and separation trauma, making it difficult to create and sustain intimacy in adulthood. Most books about attachment, developmental trauma, addictions, abuse, family systems therapy, and similar mental health topics—particularly those seeking to make a contribution to this large field—are written from an objective, scientific “outside-in” perspective that is anchored in quantitative research done by other people. This academic and quantitative approach makes the content of a book professionally “legitimate,” but also tends to make it dry, impersonal, and not very alive. It is often very difficult to relate to the author as either a professional or real person in this type of book. This allows her to place its content in a phenomenological framework that is anchored in a qualitative, heuristic research model. Her focus in this book is on using embodied, experiential meanings that emerge out of her personal experiences as she has lived them. This book is, therefore, more personal and also more relational in a larger sense of the word. Not only does she focus on the significant role that her parents, partners, children, and family relationships played in her early development but she also writes in a more relational style. She connects herself to the topics through her own experiences to bring the material to life.

LOVEvolution:: A Heart Centered Approach for Healing Developmental Trauma

Betrayal and the Path of the Heart provides a framework for using betrayals to open your heart, to better understand yourself and others, and for expanding your consciousness. Our own experiences of coping with betrayal, both in our own lives and in those of our many clients, helped us discover a unique approach for using betrayals as a growth experience. It's important to understand the underlying causes of betrayal experiences in order to avoid repeating them. Otherwise you're likely to make choices that cause you to re-experience betrayal's painful suffering. Most people unconsciously react to betrayal with revenge against their betrayers, or they become hypervigilant in their intimate relationships to make sure they don't get hurt again. This book offers new ways to understand the causes of betrayals. Perhaps you ignored the early warning signs for what seemed to be really good reasons-you trusted too much, or believed the person saw the world or your relationships the way you did. The outcome is that you become less trusting of yourself and your ability to find dependable people. This book takes you deeper into the understanding of betrayal, helps you make better choices when you experience them, and increases your awareness about their underlying causes. It identifies how distorted views of those closest to help create betrayals. Once you are free from these distortions, you are less likely to fall prey to betrayals again.

Betrayal and the Path of the Heart

Self-Help

Relationships

When you read this book, you will experience something like what Neo experienced in the movie, The Matrix, when he took the Red Pill instead of the Blue Pill. Your perception of yourself, your relationships and the world around you will totally change. You will realize that you have been looking at yourself, your relationships and the world around you through a lens created by taking the Blue Pill. The Blue Pill allows you to live your life out of an illusionary False Self.

The Red Pill

Weinhold, Barry K.

Polarized thinking currently is the greatest threat facing this country and other countries in many parts of the world. Humanity is stuck in "either-or" thinking. Everything is right or wrong, black or white, East or West, liberal or conservative, guns or no guns, etc. You may find yourself "splitting" against people and organizations that hold different views from yours. I believe this is happening because you, like most people, are living out of your False Self. Your True Self is hidden somewhere inside of you waiting patiently for you to wake up and discover it. This book examines the hazards of living out of your False Self. You may strive to live out of your Authentic Self, but at the same time you may struggle with having to use your False Self to please others in your life, just to get along. As a result, you may find yourself living out of your False Self more than you want. Even if you are aware of when you do this, you may not know how to change it. Childhood traumas likely prevented you from completing your "psychological birth" and from developing a fully individuated True Self by age three. If this did not happen, you will have to complete this important milestone as an adult or spend the rest of your life living out of a substitute False Self. I estimate that less than 5% percent of adults actually completed that milestone at age three. This book shows you how to move out of overusing your False Self and strengthening your True Self. Your False Self shows up in two very different ways: as a deflated or depressed False Self and an inflated or narcissistic False Self. Some people have symptoms stemming from both conditions. The hazards you face by living out of your False Self, in either case, include victim behaviors, depression, anxiety, addictions, narcissistic behaviors, toxic shame, projections and poor decisions that likely involve you trying to please others rather than being true to yourself. Are you ready to change that?In addition, I look at the threats of polarized thinking to our current political system and how the overuse of the False Self could actually bring down our country. Did you know that a country or an empire can be brought down, if most of the people living there operate mostly out of their False Self? This country is no exception. We could lose the democracy we have been creating over the past 250 years because a vast majority of the people living in this country continue to living out of their False Self. That is the ultimate hazard.Finally, I provide you with the best tools I have found to help you identify and remove the hazards of living out of your False Self and reclaim your True Self. If you are serious about living a more authentic life, this book will provide you with the tools to accomplish just that.

GET REAL: THE HAZARDS OF LIVING OUT OF YOUR FALSE SELF

Aging

After working with many couples and others in my private practice as a licensed psychologist, I have found they have trouble resolving their conflicts. The two most prevalent reasons I have found are these:A lack an understanding of how past unresolved conflicts and unhealed traumas “bleed through” and make it more difficult to resolve their current conflictsA lack of skills in conflict resolution.This book provides information and skill training that addresses these two issues for anybody who is experiencing a conflict. Without addressing these two problems, people usually avoid resolving their conflicts at all costs. This often leads to an escalation a conflict into violence, including mass shootings. If you get triggered by memories of past conflicts or by self-medication (think addictions) you know there is something more to learn, related to these earlier conflicts. Without addressing these issues, couples either do not stay together for long, or they live lives of “quiet desperation.”Specifically, this book provides numerous self-assessment exercises and step-by step Worksheets to help couples and others resolve four different types of conflict:Conflicts of Wants and Needs. These conflicts are often the everyday variety, including conflicts about division of labor, how to keep their place clean, handling joint finances, personal care and hygiene, or behavioral habits.Conflicts of Values and Beliefs. This kind of conflict often focuses on differences in religious values and beliefs, political views, parenting approaches and spending habits.Repeated Conflicts With No Resolution. These are “frozen conflicts” where the resolution requires an understanding of how elements from previously unresolved conflicts or traumas are “bleeding through ”and interfering with the resolution of these current conflicts.Betrayal Conflicts. These conflicts involve “soul wounds” that are the result of some betrayal of trust in your relationships. Infidelity is only one of them and the book describes many others as well.This trauma-informed approach to conflict resolution involves four truths that couples and others need to embrace to resolve their conflicts:The natural learning style of humans is to repeat anything that was a conflict in the past.You are never upset for the reasons you think you are.When you can name it, you can “tame it” or change it.You will get “triggered” by memories of past unresolved conflict and trauma, only when the relationship is close enough and safe enough for these memories to show up.If you understand that any conflict you are having, either inside of yourself or with others, is an opportunity to learn something new about your life and experiences, then welcome conflict into your life. You need not be ashamed, if you get "triggered" and overreact to something someone said or did. This is your body telling you there is something more to learn. This book provides you with all the tools you need to learn everything in your life that, for whatever reason, you didn’t learn earlier in your life. You are never too old to learn something new.The pandemic has put tremendous stress on everyone as they had to cope with new challenges that they never had to face before. Often, the additional contact, often under very stressful conditions, naturally brought up more conflicts. Anyone without effective skills to resolve these conflicts, found themselves doing and saying things that often escalated their conflicts. I dedicate this book to those noble souls who tried their best to resolve their conflicts, living under very adverse life-stressors, with the tools they had. If you read this book, you will never have to fear conflict again. You will have at your disposal, all the information and tools you need to resolve your conflicts in a healthy way.

Intimate Combat: Conflict Resolution Skills For Couples

Weinhold PhD, Dr. Barry K.

Hidden developmental trauma can disrupt your life and relationships and cause you to freak out. It is hard enough to be a human being. You, like many people, freak out just trying to cope with the stress from competition to be better than others around you. In addition, you have to cope with conflicting thoughts where you judge, criticize and second-guess your every move and feeling state. You can easily get confused and anxious in your attempts to be successful and happy. It is important in all this to remember that what you resist will persist. The long-term effects of your hidden childhood traumas will not go away without you paying attention to them. The most effective and humane way to respond to these hidden developmental traumas is to bring loving attention to the situations where you freak out. It is sometimes challenging and confusing to locate the hidden causes of your reaction trauma, but if you refuse to pay attention when this happens, your hidden and unhealed trauma patterns will continue to control your life. The stress of being constantly on guard against freaking out, takes a lot of your energy. This book, the 56th that Dr. Weinhold has written, helps you locate the sources of your freaked out reactions and provides you with the tools you need to heal them. Dr. Weinhold has put the best-of-the-best material in this book and it represents the latest information and tools available to heal the long-term effects of developmental traumas. It contains all the tools that Dr. Weinhold used to locate and heal his own hidden developmental traumas. These are also the proven tools he has used with his clients for the past 40 years as a licensed psychologist and taught to his graduate students as a professor during the same time. Reading this book will give you hope that you can overcome the long-term effects of hidden childhood traumas and live a more relaxed and happy life. The first half of this book helps you identify your hidden developmental traumas with the help of Self-Quizzes and examples, so you can apply the content of the book to your own life and relationships. The second half of the book contains all the healing tools you need to rid yourself of the experience of freaking out when you are with certain people and are in certain situations. These people or situations trigger memories of the feelings connected to the original childhood trauma. This is what causes you to freak out. Most of the tools described in the book also work if you are suffering from an event trauma caused by an accident, natural disaster or combat situation. Freaked Out begins with information about event trauma and how it differs from developmental or relational trauma. Part One of the book focuses on how event traumas and relational traumas can disrupt your life. Part Two focuses on the long-term effects of hidden and unhealed developmental traumas on your relationships. Part Three provides the tools you need to heal these disruptive emotional reactions. Be sure to visit the website for this book at http://freakedoutnomore.info and be sure to "like" us on Facebook at . This is where you will continue to find new information and tools about how to identify and heal the long-term effects of hidden developmental traumas that are causing you to Freak Out.

Freaked Out: How Hidden Developmental Traumas Can Disrupt Your Life and Relationships

Mental Health

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