A Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Empowered Healing: 70+ Worksheets

Description

Learn your nervous system, then work with it

You are safe now and your body still does not believe it. The heart races in a quiet room, sleep comes late, and a raised voice on the television sends you back years.

This 106-page workbook from Mental Help Fairy teaches self-regulation from the ground up. It starts with what trauma is and how fight, flight and freeze work, then helps you find your own window of tolerance and the triggers which push you out of it. The second half builds a response plan, a safety plan and a set of tools, before turning to the inner child, core wounds, attachment and boundaries.

Inside this workbook

• What is trauma, examples of trauma, core values of healing
• Healing planner and my healing goals
• The nervous system: fight or flight, freeze, the ladder of dysregulation
• Window of tolerance and what shrinks or expands it
• Noticing signs of dysregulation and safety, head to toe
• Checklists and reflections for fight or flight, freeze and safety
• Triggers: categories, diary, scale, and communicating them
• Tools for transformation: breathing, vagus nerve, body-based, co-regulation and mental exercises
• Reacting versus responding, my response plan, my safety plan, trigger tracker
• Inner child work, caregivers, core wounds, a letter to your inner child
• Attachment styles, relationship values, boundaries, fears and breaking patterns of behaviour

PDF, 106 pages. Print at home or fill in on screen. Instant download after payment.

This workbook is an educational resource. It does not replace therapy, medical care or crisis support. If you feel unsafe, contact your GP, NHS 111 or your local emergency services.