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121) The keep
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Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact...
122) Clarity & connection
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A collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. The author describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In a spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.
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"The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma-weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room-from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University-trained trauma-informed psychologist and practitioner of holistic healing"--
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Your Mind Matters: a Mental Health Initiative from Be Well at NPL
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The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals--and that social change is not just for movement builders. Just as health practitioners need to consider the societal factors underlying trauma, so too must activists understand the physical and mental impacts of trauma on their own lives and the lives of the communities with...
126) Bend toward the sun
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"Rowan McKinnon believes love isn't real. With a botany Ph.D., two best friends who embrace her social quirkiness, and some occasional no-string sex, she thinks she has everything she needs. but she hides deep wounds from the past--from an emotionally negligent mother and a fiancé who treated her like a pawn in a game. The only love she's ever known came from her grandmother Edie, who taught her to care for all things that grow. After a chance encounter...
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"Colton Gentry is riding high. His first hit in nearly a decade has caught fire, he's opening for country megastar Brant Lucas, and he's married to one of the hottest acts in the country. But he's hurting. Only a few weeks earlier, his best friend Duane was murdered onstage by a mass shooter at a country music festival. One night, with his trauma festering and Jim Beam flowing through his veins, Colton stands before a sold-out arena crowd of country...
131) Hummingbird season
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"At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a young boy named Archie learns about community, genuine connection, and how not to lose hope"--
Archie's life--and the whole world--is turned upside down by Covid-19. Suddenly there are no more Friday night dinners out, no more going to school, no more hanging out with friends . . . no leaving the house at all. Even though he's inside with his family all day every day, Archie can't help but feel more alone...
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"Whether it's from emotional, psychological, or physical abuse, from an accident or major injury, or whether it's one episode or recurring, unresolved trauma affects millions of modern adults as they go about their daily lives. Nick Polizzi, author of The Sacred Science, and Pedram Shojai, O.M.D., and New York Times best-selling author of The Urban Monk and The Art of Stopping Time, explore humanity's different methods for dealing with trauma. From...
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"Sydney appears to be a normal, rudderless, suburban 15-year-old freshman. Cartoonist Charles Forsman (The End of the Fxxxing World) expertly channels teenage ennui while telling a powerful story about the intense, and sometimes violent, tug of war between trauma and control"--Page 4 of cover.
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"I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie... I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels... Nobody could tell us what to do." Brittany Means's childhood...
136) The autoimmune cure: healing the trauma and other triggers that have turned your body against you
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Reveals how trauma can rewire your body to trigger autoimmune diseases-and provides a comprehensive plan for readers to reset their immune system and finally heal.
137) Pursued
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Brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s, Jeb is an orphan who grows up haunted by nightmares of the childhood trauma in which his own family was killed. His life becomes more complicated as he realizes that he is in love with his adopted sister Thorley, and his adopted brother Adam has come to hate him.
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Have you ever felt at a loss for an answer when asked: "How are you really feeling?” Maybe you can’t quite put your finger on it, but you know something is definitely off. Microaggressions, challenging family relationships, toxic positivity, work and pandemic stress, gaslighting -- these are just a few examples of what psychologist Dr. Meg Arroll calls “Tiny T” trauma. These tiny traumas can slowly build up inside of us, and if ignored...
139) Four hands
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Jessica and Sophie have remained in their family home even after they witnessed their parents' murder there as children. Twenty years later, learning that the killers will be paroled, Sophie begins to suffer blackouts during which she commits unspeakable acts. For his outstanding and unnerving second feature, director Oliver Kienle gleefully ratchets up the tension to a knockout climax.
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""In Healing trauma, Dr. Levine gives you the personal how-to guide for using the theory he first introduced in his highly acclaimed work Waking the Tiger. Join him to discover: how to develop body awareness to "renegotiate" and heal traumas by "revisiting" them rather than reliving them; emergency "first-aid" measures for times of distress; and nature's lessons for uncovering the physiological roots of your emotions." --Publisher description"--Publisher's...