In reality, trauma impacts all of us and many people just don’t realise that traumatic experience is the basis of a lot of their unhappiness.
The value of understanding ourselves is not always clear in relation to how we interact with others, how we treat ourselves or how we find our best balance in order to feel that life is fun, enriching and fulfilling. You’ve heard of Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ – all practical needs for survival. Our primary emotional need is for connection. Our connections as children denote our connective capacity as adults.
Author, psychologist and trauma specialist Kerry Howard believes that our challenges as human beings all centre around a central theme: our childhood issues. These issues are at the basis of all of our health challenges in our lives.
In
The Trouble with Trauma, Kerry brings together the differing elements of trauma in one place incorporating biology, neurology, psychology, physiology and epigenetics to consider the reason that trauma causes physical and psychological changes in our bodies and what we can do to resolve them.
Kerry peppers the book with her experiences in applying this information to her own life and with her clients. This book comes from a place of practical experience and credibility across all forms of personal transformation. Kerry provides down-to-earth advice on every aspect of the life-review process and provides a practical framework for understanding how trauma impacts our lives and what we can do to resolve it.
The Trouble With Trauma is the answer for those people who have always wanted to be truly happy, focused on their health and satisfied in their bodies, who seek to gain a supportive network of friends and family and healthy relationships.
Book Features:
- It provides advice for men and women on the aspects of life that impact our ability to feel fulfilled and satisfied with life. So, it’s holistic, rather than focusing on one aspect of development alone.
- It is very current. There have been many self-help books written about resolving the ‘problems’ that people have about their dissatisfaction with life, but not delivered in consideration of the impact from traumatic experience. We need to provide a complete solution that addresses the trauma.
- Most personal development books are not commercially successful; most people do not understand that the key to resolving their life problems actually lies in how they view themselves. This book will show how to make significant change in an individual’s sense of self, which results in improving all the key areas of life and achieving the ultimate connection with others and facilitating fulfilling relationships.
- As a practising psychologist and trauma specialist, the insight Kerry provides comes both from her practical experience and it is supported by research.
About the Author
Kerry is a best-selling author, psychologist and trauma prevention strategist. She has worked with 1000+ clients to improve their sense of self and find joy in life. In 1998 Kerry was hit by a bus, suffered PTSD and was in therapy for a year. That process changed her life! Kerry thought the bus was her big problem, but the bus just gave rise to all of the other times in her life where she had made a mistake or felt rejected. She learned that recovery isn’t always about the ‘here and now’ – in fact, it never is.
The bus accident happened 12 months into her part-time studies in psychology. Kerry studied for 15 years to complete her studies and internship, allowing her to become a psychologist. She did this whilst working full-time in an executive role and raising two children as a sole parent.
Kerry has won two international awards for her compassion and commitment to mental health and PTSD treatment and prevention. She is also an internationally renowned and charismatic keynote presenter. She draws on her own life experiences and practice to deliver powerful messages on a range of topics including personal growth, relationships, trauma and life transformation in a truly authentic way. In early 2019, Kerry launched ‘Rural Help’, an online psychology practice serving members of rural and remote communities across Australia.
Williamstown, Victoria and Narrabundah, ACT.
