Hi,
A client tells you a colleague's tone of voice wrecked
her whole afternoon, and she cannot say why. I publish
the Complex PTSD & Childhood Trauma Recovery Workbook,
a 104-page PDF built around that exact moment. $39.49,
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clinicians. That is the only reason you are hearing
from me.
Pete Walker's term for that afternoon is the emotional
flashback: a flashback with no picture in it. Nothing
announces it as memory, so it does not feel like the
past arriving. It feels like now. That is why it reads
as an overreaction from the outside, and often from
the inside too.
The flashback itself might last twenty minutes. The
second storm can last a week: the shame about having
had it, the critic narrating it, the days of
self-punishment after. Walker's frame for recovery is
not that the waves stop. It is that they get shorter,
shallower and less frequent. The second storm is the
part a client can learn to interrupt alone, and it is
what Part 2 teaches.
The first two minutes, condensed from Walker's 13
steps and the workbook's grounding menu: name it, out
loud or on paper, "I am having a flashback." Then
time-stamp it, "I feel afraid and I am not in danger;
this is old." Then, and only then, a body step: feet,
the room, one long exhale. Grounding handed to a
client who does not yet know she is in a flashback is
a tool aimed at the wrong moment. Recognition first,
technique second.
That order is the workbook's spine. Part 1 is a map:
the four survival adaptations and their hybrids turned
into a personal profile, an eleven-sign flashback
recognition checklist, trigger maps, and a one-page
dashboard built to be photographed and carried. Part 2
is the first aid, pages 29 to 42: the thirteen-step
protocol adapted from Walker, walked across four
spreads, a six-practice grounding menu, a tear-out
pocket card on page 39, two flashback logs, and an
aftercare protocol for the hour after.
ICD-11 lists complex PTSD as its own diagnosis: the
PTSD core plus three more clusters, trouble regulating
emotion, a lastingly negative sense of self, and
trouble in relationships (Brewin and colleagues,
2017). Parts 2, 3 and 5 sit on those three: first aid,
shrinking the critic, reparenting and boundaries. Part
4 is grief work in four channels, with a readiness
check gating every practice. Part 6 is the daily
architecture, including one five-minute breathing
practice with a randomized trial behind it (Balban and
colleagues, 2023). Sources are printed in full on
page 101.
What it does carry, on page 3 and again on page 101,
is a licence that covers use with individual clients
by the practitioner who bought it. 40+ worksheets and
practices across six parts. A4, and it prints on US
Letter with fit to page, nothing cut off.
$39.49, instant PDF. Full refund within 60 days, and
you keep the files.
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Not relevant to your work? Reply "no" and I will not
write again.
P.S. $39.49, 60-day full refund. If the pocket card on
page 39 is the only page a client ever uses, the
workbook has still done its job. Not this quarter?
Reply "later".
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