Your Surviving Spirit: A Spiritual Workbook for Coping with Trauma

The devastating loss of trust and well-being that accompanies any kind of trauma can trap a survivor in a state of victimhood. Your Surviving Spirit uses vignettes and activities to promote healing and transform trauma-based pain and despair into a feeling of healthy well-being and spiritual renewal. Case studies cover a variety of traumas, from childhood abuse to more contemporary disturbances. Author Dusty Miller explores six characteristics crucial to the process of transformation: Willingness, Letting Go, Commitment, Empathy and Compassion, "Lightening Up," and Creating Connections. She uses fill-ins, questionnaires, and interactive exercises to keep the reader focused and engaged with these strategies. Skill-building exercises, journal-writing activities, and the creation of personal stories and affirmations reinforce healing on a daily basis that will help trauma survivors reclaim their inner strength and work toward spiritual transformation.