Table of Contents
- Moving Forward from Trauma, Addiction, or Both
- Starting Out
- “Things Turn Out OK”—David's Experience
- It’s Medical: You’re Not Crazy, Lazy, or Bad
- How Do People Change?
- The World Is Your School
- Listen to Your Behavior
- Wish versus Reality
- Find Your Way
- Possible Selves
- The Language of Trauma and Addiction
- Safe Coping Skills
- Social Pain
- True Self-Compassion
- Why Trauma and Addiction Go Together
- Forgiving Yourself
- Body and Biology
- Getting to a Calm Place: The Skill of Grounding
- The Culture of Silence
- Motivation: Leverage One Problem to Help the Other
- Tip the Scales Recovery Plan
- Every Child Is a Detective
- How to Survive a Relapse
- See the Link
- Practice
- Identity: How You View Yourself
- Perception: How Others View You
- The Decision to Grow
- Dark Feelings: Rage, Hatred, Revenge, Bitterness
- Imagination
- Create a Healing Image
- Find a Good Counselor
- Two Types of Trauma Counseling
- What the Wounded Can Give Back
- “We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars”
Appendix A. How Others Can Help: Family, Friends, Partners, Sponsors, Counselors
Appendix B. Resources
Appendix C. Brief Quiz on Trauma and Addiction
References
List of Exercises