Resources
If you are in crisis or having thoughts of suicide, please call:
Alaska Careline: (1-877-266-4357)
Available 24/7. Call anytime if you need someone to talk to or you are in crisis - if thinking about suicide or concerned about someone else.
Providence Crisis Line: (1-907-563-3200)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (1-800-273-8255)
Veterans Press “1”. Available 24/7/365
Standing Together Against Rape (STAR) Crisis Line - Alaska: (1-800-478-8999)
For victims of sexual assault and abuse. Also offers legal advocacy.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: (1-800-799-7233)
Women’s Resource Center (Florida): (863-294-5318), Website
Alaska Network on Domestic Violence: Website
EMDR Resources
Video Resources
Book Resources
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
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Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.
However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma.
Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate their journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers:
Step-by-step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist
Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience
Worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately rejuvenation
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
Dr. George Simon knows how people push your buttons. Your children--especially teens--are expert at it, as is your mate. A co-worker may quietly undermine your efforts while professing to be helpful, or your boss may prey on your weaknesses. Manipulative people have two goals: to win and to look good doing it. Often those they abuse are only vaguely aware of what is happening to them. In this eye-opening book, you'll also discover...
4 reasons why victims have a hard time leaving abusive relationships
Power tactics manipulators use to push their own agendas and justify their behavior
Ways to redefine the rules of engagement between you and an abuser
How to spot potential weaknesses in your character that can set you up for manipulation.
12 tools for personal empowerment to help you maintain greater strength in all relationships
In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
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A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a gun. These days, no one is safe from the specter of violence. But according to Gavin de Becker, everyone can feel safer, act safer, be safer — if they learn how to listen to their own sixth sense about danger.
De Becker has made a career of protecting people and predicting violent behavior. His firm handles security for many of the leading figures in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and his computerized risk-assessment system helps analyze threats to members of Congress and the Supreme Court. Now, in this unprecedented guide, de Becker shares his expertise with everyone. Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face — street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace — de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust our own intuitions. For everyone who's ever felt threatened, this book is essential reading.
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
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Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by our memories and by experiences we may not remember or fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical techniques that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to take charge of their lives.
Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations, and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives, and performers.
An easy conversational style, humor, and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and how to achieve real change.
Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal
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If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships—or a tragedy like 9/11—all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors become “invisible heroes,” courageously struggling to lead normal lives in spite of symptoms so baffling and disturbing that they sometimes doubt their own sanity.
Now there is new hope for the millions affected by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drawing on more than thirty years’ experience as a therapist and on the most recent cutting-edge research, Belleruth Naparstek presents a clinically proven program for recovery using the potent tool of guided imagery. She reveals how guided imagery goes straight to the right side of the brain, where it impacts the nonverbal wiring of the nervous system itself, the key to alleviating suffering.
Filled with the voices of real trauma survivors and therapists whose lives and work have been changed by this approach, Invisible Heroes offers:
New understanding of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of PTSD, who is most susceptible, and why symptoms can get worse rather than better with time
Important insights into how the brain and body respond to trauma, why conventional talk therapy can actually impede recovery, and why the nonverbal, image-based right brain is crucial to healing
A step-by-step program with more than twenty scripts for guided-imagery exercises tailored to the three stages of recovery, from immediate relief of anxiety attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, and insomnia, to freedom from depression and isolation, to renewed engagement with life
A helpful guide to the best of the new imagery-based therapies, and how to incorporate them into an overall recovery plan
Belleruth Naparstek concludes with the inspiring words of survivors who have found their way back to peace, purpose, and
a deep joy in living. Her compassionate, groundbreaking book can lead you and
those in your care to the same renewal and healing.
Articles
Mental Health Resources
Helplines and Websites
Substance Abuse and Treatment Referral Hotline:
Intervention Helpline for Addiction:
(1-888-843-5754)
Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Helpline for Families
AA Meeting Finder (Online and In-Person):
(866-920-0628)
Christian Mental Health and Sex Addiction Helpline:
(844-543-3242)
National Alliance for Eating Disorder Helpline:
Foundations and Websites
Al-ANON:
Co-Dependents Anonymous:
Sex Addiction and Recovery:
Faith Based Sexual Addiction Resources:
National Eating Disorder Treatment Resources:
Eating Disorder Hope:
United Way:
International OCD Foundation:
PTSD: National Center for PTSD:
Non-Military PTSD:
CPTSD Foundation:
Complex PTSD explained and paid support group option with other CPTSD
survivors.
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