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Recovery from trauma

If you want to learn more about trauma, dissociation and recovery – either for yourself or to help others – then this is the place for you.

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How do we recover from trauma?

Trauma isn’t new. We’ve been facing it as homo sapiens for hundreds of thousands of years. What’s new is our reframing of the symptoms of trauma as ‘mental illness’ (we’re mad) or a ‘character flaw’ (we’re bad) and trying to solve it with drugs or protocolised ‘treatments’.

I believe that recovery from complex childhood trauma is possible – but there is no quick fix. In healing the wounds inflicted by human beings acting inhumanly, I believe we need a safe tribe where we can be treated with dignity and respect, with compassion and empathy. And we need to understand how trauma has changed our brains and bodies so that we can reverse those changes.

I’m all about providing that understanding: through my writing and training, I help people recover from trauma so that recovery is our best revenge.

I invite you to discover my books, courses, blogs and podcasts and to join me so that we can reverse adversity together.

And if you’re a counsellor, therapist or other mental health professional, I invite you to join my membership training group: the Trauma Recovery Community.

Find out more about me

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Quick start links

Quick start links

Latest podcast episodes

Podcast #18 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 2)
Podcast #17 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 1)
Podcast: #16 – Trauma needs a solution
Podcast #18 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 2)
Podcast #17 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 1)
Podcast: #16 – Trauma needs a solution

Latest blog posts

Six steps to managing anxiety
Trauma and the bears – a fable
Why the symptoms of trauma make sense
Three challenges of trauma: why recovery is so hard
Six steps to managing anxiety
Trauma and the bears – a fable
Why the symptoms of trauma make sense
Three challenges of trauma: why recovery is so hard

Popular courses

Working with Shame online training
Trauma and the Body Dissociation and Somatisation online training
Working with Relational Trauma online training
Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm online training

My books

Unshame: healing trauma-based shame through psychotherapy book
Recovery is my best revenge book
I don’t feel real: a brief guide to depersonalisation / derealisation disorder (Kindle only)

Free Resource Guide

A free 100-page e-book for trauma survivors and those who work with and support them, providing help with flashbacks, triggers, and how to manage our mental health after trauma.

The Trauma Survivors’ Resource Guide contains 104 pages of helpful articles that dig deep into both Carolyn’s personal experience of traumatic distress, and the science of how to relieve it.

It explains how trauma impacts the brain, what can be done to reduce its debilitating effects and features resources and tools that survivors can use to better manage traumatic symptoms and the very understandable distress that they cause.

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