Redefining Trauma: Understanding and Coping with a Cortisoaked Brain-Fast Shipping

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Title: Redefining Trauma: Understanding and Coping with a Cortisoaked Brain

Author: Sarah Wright

ISBN: 9780367187651

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 1

Number of Pages: 224

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This accessible guide explores how our brains react to stress and offers a fresh perspective on how we define “trauma.” Probing how the words we use can influence our understanding of distress, this text focuses on expanding awareness of excess stress and reducing judgment of its potential impact on relationships and day-to-day life.

Helpfully split into three parts, the book introduces the terms “cortisprinkled,” “cortisaturated,” and “cortisoaked” and provides a rationale for why these states of brain occur. The role of culture and society are highlighted, and an in-depth focus on coping and offering support to others is presented. Whether caused by sexual assault, social rejection, abuse, the taboo of sexuality, disadvantaged status, or other difficulties, chapters detail specific coping skills and step-by-step strategies to deal with a variety of stress responses. Advice is offered on reconnecting with sexuality, phrasing difficult questions, and ways to offer validation, with concrete recommendations on incorporating healthier practices into everyday life.

Both metaphor and real-world vignettes are interwoven throughout, making Redefining Trauma an essential and understandable resource for therapists and their clients, parents and support givers, and anyone looking to develop practical, informed methods for dealing with stress and trauma and reclaim life with intention.