Peace in the Heart & Home: A Down-to-earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your Loved OnesMost people find it very difficult to manage the emotions that they experience in their family relationships. Instead of home being a safe haven, a place of emotional support, it is too often a source of hurt and deprivation. Loneliness, disappointment, fear, frustration and stress take a high toll on people's functioning and quality of life. As a result, depression, anxiety, panic, phobias, compulsions, addictions and attention problems are practically epidemic in our society. Dealing with emotions in self-defeating ways is the norm and psychological trauma is more wide spread than most people realize. Peace in the Heart and Home provides a clear and thorough explanation of the dynamics that overwhelm the average person, couple and family. It takes the mystery out of their struggles. The book then provides abundant, explicit advice and a wide array of effective skills, resources and methods for managing emotions, healing trauma, cultivating awareness and fostering effective and fulfilling relationships. A wealth of memorable anecdotes, metaphors and quotations bring the material to life and will resonate with readers' most meaningful experiences. |
Contents
What its Going to Take | 1 |
Personality in Day to Day Life | 22 |
Psychological Trauma Healing and EMDR | 51 |
SelfCare and SelfSoothing | 83 |
nurturing | 97 |
Physical Health | 103 |
Intimate Relationships | 124 |
Family Life | 159 |
Common terms and phrases
ability able adult adulthood Alan Watts amygdala anger anxiety anxious anxiously-attached attention autonomic nervous system avoidant awareness become behavior bipolar disorder body sensations breath bring calm chapter childhood chronic client comfort compassion compulsive connection consciously couple courage create defenses depression deprivation develop disorder disturbing Eckhart Tolle EMDR session emotional needs emotionally Emotionally Focused Therapy empathy energy experience experienced express family members father fear feel felt Francine Shapiro going healing Heart and Home helplessness human hurt images imaginal nurturing insecure Jack Kornfield Jon Kabat-Zinn learned lives marriage mindfulness meditation mother nervous system never one’s ourselves pain parents partner peace Pema Chodron person perspective physical Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder problems psychological psychological trauma psychotherapy recognize relationship response secure attachment self-care self-soothing sense sensitive shame siblings Somatic Experiencing someone spouse stress suffering symptoms talk therapist therapy tion trauma triggered understanding vulnerable Wise Mind wounds