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The Way Ahead: Self-Empowerment for Traumatic Stress The focus of this book is to help empower individuals to be able to effectively cope with traumatic life events. This book is built from solid scientific evidence. We have provided options for you to purchase these chapters as individual books (see below) or this one large book depending on what your needs are. The book presented here is the large inclusive book that describes how you can best work on helping your own recovery.
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Self Talk, What You Tell Yourself Matters teaches you ways to fight negative thinking. The thoughts that you have during recovery from a traumatic event are very important to your recovery. We give you tips for learning positive “self-talk,” to limit negative thinking and focus on positives.
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The Calming Skills book is focused on helping you learn different strategies for calming yourself during your recovery. After a traumatic experience, it is normal to have physical reactions that include muscle tension, rapid heartbeat, sweatiness, and feeling jittery or on-edge. One way to help yourself if you are feeling tense is to learn some simple relaxation or calming skills. In this book, you will learn how to use deep breathing, muscle relaxation, and positive imagery to reduce your tension and anxiety. The strategies in this book are very easy to use and helpful to give you important skills to manage your physical and emotional distress.
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In Coping with Trauma Reminders you will learn what type of reactions and reminders you might expect after a trauma and learn to develop strategies to help manage these reminders and recover more easily. Trauma reminders can be almost anything related to your specific experience. These reminders can include certain smells, sights, sounds, even feelings that are connected to your trauma. Because these memories are often powerful, you might react when you think about them. In this book you will learn what type of reactions you might expect and learn to develop strategies to help manage these reminders and recover more easily.
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Many trauma survivors benefit from talking to a mental health professional (psychologist, social worker, or psychiatrist), a priest, rabbi, or other member of the clergy, or a doctor or nurse. In Getting Professional Help, we provide information about: why you might consider talking to a professional; what happens when you talk to a skilled helper; when should you consider getting help; what are some of the things that might stop you from getting help; who are the different types of professionals that do this kind of work; and, how you might find a counselor. You will be able to consider the benefits as well as the drawbacks of talking to a professional counselor who understands trauma.
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Healing and recovery is a process. Understanding this process is vital and can help you gain a sense of control. The Way Ahead has four main parts. The first section highlights what you should know. The second section highlights the skills you will need to help yourself. In the third section, we focus on goal setting. It might seem odd to bring up goal setting in the context of trauma recovery, but it is very important. As humans, we are driven by our desire to have control. Trauma rips this away from us. Setting achievable goals during your recovery can help you to regain a sense of control little by little. Finally, the fourth section emphasizes the importance of rewards. Coping with trauma is very difficult and it is extremely helpful to reinforce success during your recovery.
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After a trauma, many people look for ways to feel better. But some of the ways people choose to do this are not helpful and can slow the recovery process. In What Not to Do, you will learn about three negative behaviors people use when dealing with a traumatic event. You may be using these negative strategies without even knowing it, so I will teach you how to tell if you might be coping with your traumatic experience in negative ways. I will describe specific alternatives to help you find positive ways to cope.
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After a traumatic experience, it is often difficult to talk about it with others. This can leave you feeling isolated and alone. Finding ways to reach out to people close to you can help tremendously in your recovery. In How to Get Support during Recovery, I will provide very specific methods to help you get the help you need. Seeking social support can help you in a number of ways. Talking to someone can help you to reduce your painful feelings about the trauma and make the experience a little easier to understand. By talking to others, you can increase your “re-engagement” in life and, when you are ready, resume normal social activities. Finally, talking to someone can help you to find some meaning in the experience.
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Websites
The Journey to Recovery websites are ideal for disaster recovery situations where traumatized individuals have little access to recovery assistance due to environmental logistics—for example, when there are few mental health providers available—in situations where public movement is restricted like a pandemic influenza outbreak, or when people fear being labeled because they are accessing mental health services. The Journey to Recovery websites are anonymous, operate 24 hours a day, and can be accessed most anywhere in the world.
There are two versions of the website in use today.
The web-based trauma recovery program Journey to Disaster Recovery™ is a prototype website in use in communities around the country that have experienced a large-scale disaster. The interactive site empowers traumatized individuals to cope more effectively and assists those in greater mental health distress to seek more in-depth treatment from a professional.
 The Journey to Trauma Recovery™ program is a site designed to support first responders and disaster responders, or to support those who experience regular exposure to traumatic events.
In both versions, the site helps users restore a sense of control and mastery over their situation by providing knowledge to assist in understanding the trauma recovery process, skill training to manage trauma related distress, and assistance in determining the need for and access to professional assistance.
The Journey to Recovery™ websites can help people from all walks of life including the general public, emergency services workers, hospital personnel, school personnel, and mental and physical health providers. The customizable nature of the Journey websites provides a unique opportunity to generate an adaptable site that is culturally relevant to different users.
If your organization is interested in learning more about how the Journey websites can help, please contact us.
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