The EMDR Workbook for Complex PTSD: A Step-by-Step 8-Phase Protocol to Process Trauma, Overcome Emotional Flashbacks, and Rewire Your Nervous System - Couverture souple

Turner, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1806478544 ISBN 13 : 9781806478545

Editeur : Gary Turner, 2026

Synopsis

Are emotional flashbacks and chronic shame running your life without you even realizing it?

Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

• You feel like something is fundamentally broken inside you, not around you.
• You're always braced for something to go wrong, even when everything is fine.
• Emotions hit without warning and take hours, or days, to settle.
• You've been told you have depression or anxiety, but the label never quite fit.
• You lose yourself in relationships, either clinging or pushing people away.
• Your childhood feels distant, but your body still reacts like you're back there.

I get it. You've tried the therapy, the medication, the books. You understand your past intellectually. You just can't make your body believe it's over. That gap is exactly where this workbook lives.

• Talk therapy helped you understand your story, but the triggers kept firing anyway.
• Antidepressants softened the edges without reaching what was underneath.
• Breathing exercises work until something real sets you off.
• EMDR, adapted specifically for Complex PTSD, works where the trauma actually lives: in the nervous system.

But First, a Warning

This workbook is not for people looking to read about healing without doing any of it. The exercises here ask for honesty, slowness, and courage. If you're ready to stop managing symptoms and start moving through the roots, this is the right book.

Here's what you'll finally understand:

• Why you feel like more than one person inside, and the dissociation theory that explains it (Page 35)
• The four survival responses, including the one nobody talks about, and how yours became your identity (Page 29)
• What chronic trauma does to the developing brain and why thinking differently was never going to be enough (Page 23)
• Why C-PTSD is often misdiagnosed as anxiety or a personality disorder, and how that kept you from the right help (Page 20)
• How to use the COPS grounding protocol when the past suddenly feels like right now (Page 74)
• The counterintuitive reason your window of tolerance is narrower than it should be, and how to widen it safely (Page 49)
• The Loving Eyes Protocol for making contact with the internal parts that block your healing (Page 77)
• Why EMDR target selection is the most underestimated phase of the entire protocol (Page 85)
• The cognitive interweave technique that unsticks processing when your system shuts down mid-session (Page 118)
• What complete processing actually feels like, and how to know a traumatic memory is truly resolved (Page 107)
• The real reason shame is a defense, not a flaw, and how EMDR reaches it where talk therapy cannot (Page 127)
• How trauma organized your relationships and what renegotiating closeness looks like in practice (Page 141)

This Book Is For You If...

• You've spent years in therapy without touching what's underneath.
• Fawning, freezing, or people-pleasing feel more like reflexes than choices.
• You struggle to know who you are outside of survival mode.
• Shame feels like something you were born with, not something that happened to you.
• You're done reading about healing and ready to actually do it.
• You want to stop living in the past your body refuses to let go of.

Imagine waking up without that low-level dread. Feeling anger, sadness, or joy move through you without sweeping you away. Choosing your relationships instead of being driven by old patterns. You have the opportunity right now to start living that life.

Ready to stop surviving and start becoming yourself again?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gary Turner
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1806478544
• ISBN 13: 9781806478545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg