Advice and step-by-step guidelines for those seeking to recover from addictive relationships.

Healing Trauma is an evidence-based, gender-responsive, six-session (90-minute sessions) curriculum for women, designed for settings in which a short-term intervention is needed. Examples are a community-based program, such as a mental health center; an addiction treatment program; a private practice setting; a correctional facility (jail or prison); and an agency addressing domestic violence. Healing Trauma includes: Foundational information for facilitators. Current statistics about abuse and other forms of trauma. The latest discoveries, publications, and insights in the field; particularly neuroscience. Lectures and activities for the participants that reflect current thinking and practice. A variety of yoga poses, grounding activities, and self-soothing activities. The curriculum uses psychoeducational and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques, expressive arts, body-focused exercises, mindfulness, and relational therapy. What Are the Program Components? Healing Trauma includes a reproducible facilitator guide and a reproducible participant workbook (in both English and Spanish) on a USB or in a digital delivery format. The facilitator guide contains background information about trauma and session outlines that are similar to lesson plans. The six sessions in the program are: Session 1: Welcome and Introduction to the Subject of Trauma Session 2: Power and Abuse Session 3: The Process of Trauma and Self-Care Session 4: The ACE Questionnaire and Anger Session 5: Healthy Relationships Session 6: Love, Endings, and Certificates

Exploring Trauma is a gender-responsive program addressing the trauma experiences of men. This six-session program includes a facilitator guide and a reproducible participant workbook (available in both English and Spanish) designed for working with men in a setting where a short-term intervention is needed. Examples of settings in which the program can be used are a community-based program, such as a community mental health center; an addiction treatment program; a private practice setting; a correctional facility (jail or prison); or an agency charged with addressing domestic violence. Each session contains multiple activities that may include discussions, role-plays, interactive projects and grounding/self-soothing exercises. Some sessions utilize guided imagery, or visualization-the goal being to allow men the opportunity to imagine scenarios that are different from their own realities and offers them an opportunity to safely envision different behaviors. What Are the Program Components? Exploring Trauma includes a reproducible facilitator guide and a reproducible participant workbook (in both English and Spanish) on a USB. The facilitator guide contains background information about trauma and session outlines that are similar to lesson plans. The six sessions in the program are: Session 1: Welcome and Introduction to the Subject of Trauma Session 2: Exploring Trauma Session 3: Thinking, Feeling and Acting Session 4: Beyond Guilt, Shame, and Anger Session 5: Healthy Relationships Session 6: Love, Endings, and Certificates

Stephanie Covington Armstrong does not fit the stereotype of a woman with an eating disorder. She grew up poor and hungry in the inner city. Foster care, sexual abuse, and overwhelming insecurity defined her early years. But the biggest difference is her race: Stephanie is black. In this moving first-person narrative, Armstrong describes her struggle as a black woman with a disorder consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem. Trying to escape her selfhatred and her food obsession by never slowing down, Stephanie becomes trapped in a downward spiral. Finally, she can no longer deny that she will die if she doesn't get help, overcome her shame, and conquer her addiction to using food as a weapon against herself. For more information about the book and eating disorders, visit www.notallblackgirls.com