A free 100-page e-book for trauma survivors and those who work with and support them, providing explanations and help with flashbacks, triggers, and how to manage our mental health after trauma. This is an updated version of our hugely popular 'Emotional Resource Guide'.

Triggers are a fact of life for many trauma survivors. They remind us of danger in an attempt to keep us safe, but they can make life extremely difficult for us. This poster is from the article 'Three types of trigger: three techniques for taming' and breaks triggers down into more manageable categories.

A simple, straightforward free PDF explaining the causes, prevalence and treatment approaches for dissociative identity disorder (DID) – aimed specifically at professionals but also relevant to survivors and their supporters.

How can we talk about trauma in a way that explains it in metaphors and narrative? How can we explain the dynamics of trauma without being triggered by them, or getting stuck in the detail, of having to describe our particular circumstances? They were the questions I was trying to answer when I wrote this article. I wanted to explain the evolutionary neurobiology of trauma without being overly complex. I wanted to develop a vocabulary and language.

One of the biggest issues in working with trauma is when as survivors we become or we feel 'stuck'. Very often we blame ourselves. But stuckness and trauma are not accidental bed-fellows. Instead, they are two sides of the same coin. But we can become stuck thinking about our stuckness. This poster provides a series of questions and prompts either for individual use or within a therapeutic context for considering what that stuckness looks like and how to shift it.

‘A flashback is a sudden, involuntary re-experiencing of a past traumatic event as if it is happening in the present.’ Debilitating, overwhelming, even shameful – post-traumatic flashbacks can make our lives hell but this psychoeducational poster provides a brief explanation as well as some helpful things we can say to ourselves during a flashback to re-ground.