With the pain and suffering of PTSD Post Trauma Stress Disorder is great hope. One can find direction and treatment is truly effective. PTSD Hope examines 54 Affirmations vital to recovery. Full explanations of these help persons who have been traumatized in diverse ways: war, bullied, assault, natural disasters, medical trauma, spousal abuse, deep losses, and more. Dr. Charles Bunch is the author of many books on PTSD, Soft Bipolar Disorder, and Narcissistic abuse.

This is a special version of the Suicide Inoculation Affirmations. In addition to the 54 original affirmations, 31 have been added that are specifically for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans community. In addition to affirmation that inoculate you against suicidal thinking during tuff times or if bullied, other affirmations have been added about Getting the love and life you deserve Helping others bullied Bullying awareness and protection Having good attitudes although narcissistic bullies are still around you. As a gay man I have collected these affirmations over the years and some just recently. I hope they help you in becoming all you dreamed and what you are destined. Charles K. Bunch, Ph.D. www.boisebipolarcenter.com

Finally, there is something you can do with bipolar disorder/cyclothymia to reduce the highs and lows. A groundbreaking understanding of the management of your daily contact with blue light to the eyes leads to easy to follow ideas that lowers your hypomanic highs and elevates your winter and sometimes hot summer blues. These concepts are used daily and with all patients being treated at Boise Bipolar Center by Charles Bunch, Ph.D., clinical therapist. Dr. Bunch has 30 years experience treating the bipolar mood disorders. He is also author of the books; Soft Bipolar Suffering, Soul of the Soft Bipolar, and Soul of the Soft Bipolar Supporter. Numerous websites and other resources are listed in this book to help you make change day one.

If you have depression, vivid fears, bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, panic attacks, agoraphobia, or anxiety, this book is for you! This is a unique resource: the focus is not how to handle symptoms of anxiety but confront fear which it the foundation for anxiety. We all have fear. It is part of the human experience. Dr. Bunch explains the purpose of human fear in concise understandable terms. You will find relief that your experience is vivid fear and that the mind was actually made to handle fear. Dr. Bunch draws on 25 years of clinical practice and knowledge of fear viewed from worldwide cultures. Using metaphors, you can find ways to resolve fear in your mind, and place it on the journey of your life. Facing it, you can find purpose for fear but then leave it. It is a doorway to your whole self. This "every person’s Zen approach" will stimulate your own imagination on how you deal with fear. The answers are within you already. Boise Bipolar Center is directed by Charles K. Bunch, Ph.D., and he is the author of other innovative books, including Soft Bipolar Suffering and Blue Light Management for Soft Bipolar Disorder.

Step out to your destiny of creativity, exploring, traveling and socializing with 54 affirmations fully explained. Each is a summary of the needed recovery tools. Agoraphobia is the fear of being away from a safe place or safe person. 6% of all persons have this. As quickly as agoraphobia can snowball to restrict a life, it can be countered and reversed. Dr. Bunch shows you how via 54 interesting Affirmation. Dr. Bunch has been treating agoraphobia for over 25 years and is aware what treatment works and what is a waste of time. This book is a summary of that work. Charles K. Bunch, PhD, is a clinical therapist, and director of Boise Bipolar Center. He is an author of other books, including Soft Bipolar Suffering.

Published in association with This book argues that the cognitive resources for learning of over half our young people have been diminished by the negative effects of economic insecurity, discrimination and hostility against non-majority groups based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity, and other aspects of difference. Recognizing that these students are no different than their peers in terms of cognitive capacity, this book offers a set of strategies and interventions to rebuild the available cognitive resources necessary to succeed in college and reach their full potential.Members of these groups systematically experience conditions in their lives that result in chronic stress and, therefore, decreased physical and mental health and social and economic opportunity. The costs of the many kinds of scarcity in their lives – money, health, respect, safety, affirmation, choices, belonging – is seriously reduced “mental bandwidth,” the cognitive and emotional resources needed to deal with making good decisions, learning, healthy relationships, and more. People who are operating with depleted mental bandwidth are less able to succeed in school, starting in childhood, and are much less likely to make it to college. For those who do make it, their bandwidth capacity often interferes with learning, and therefore, persisting and graduating from college.This book presents variety of evidence-based interventions that have been shown, through implementation in high schools and colleges, to help students to regain bandwidth. They are variously intended for application inside and outside the classroom and address not only cognitive processes but also social-psychological, non-cognitive factors that are relevant to the college environment as a whole. Beginning with an analysis of the impacts on mental and physical health and cognitive capacity, of poverty, racism, and other forms of social marginalization, Cia Verschelden presents strategies for promoting a growth mindset and self-efficacy, for developing supports that build upon students’ values and prior knowledge and for creating learning environments both in and out of the classroom so students can feel a sense of belonging and community. She addresses issues of stereotyping and exclusion and discusses institutional structures and processes that create identity-safe rather than identity-threat learning environment. This book is intended for faculty, student affairs professionals, and college and university administrators, all of whom have an interest in creating learning environments where all students have a chance to succeed.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author shows how care providers can support patients in their suffering and how they can recognize patients' spiritual experiences. Explaining different types of experiences of transcendence such as seeing angels or feelings of otherness and presence, this book will be of valuable use to professionals working in palliative and spiritual care, such as spiritual caregivers, therapists, nurses, and physicians. The book entails a new approach to spiritual care which opens a space of hope wherein grace may happen even amid pain, suffering, illness and dying.

This book presents a theoretically based and empirically supported framework for work with traumatized children, youth, and young adults who have spent time in foster care. It offers vivid examples of cases from the work of clinicians of A Home Within, a national non-profit focused on meeting the emotional needs of current and former foster youth.

We live in an ecological age. Science in the last few hundred years has given us a picture of nature as blind to the future and mechanical in its workings, even while ecology and physics have made us aware of our interconnectedness and dependency upon the web of life. As we witness a possible sixth great mass-extinction, there is increasing awareness too of the fragility of life on this planet. In such a context, what is the nature of Christian hope? St Paul declares that all of creation “will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” How are we to imagine this “freedom” when death and decay are essential to biological life as we currently experience it, and when the scientific predictions for life are bleak at best? This book explores these questions, reflecting on how our traditions shape our imagination of the future, and considering how a theology of hope may sustain Christians engaged in conservation initiatives. The essays in this volume are partly in dialogue with the ground-breaking work of Celia Deane-Drummond, and are set in the context of global and local (Aotearoa New Zealand) ecological challenges.

This insightful book explores the impact of traumatic experiences on the constitution of narrative identity. Editors Edmundo Balsem‹o Pires, Cl‡udio Alexandre S. Carvalho, and Joana Ricarte bring together multidisciplinary experts to examine the epistemic and ethical-political value of narrative memory, demonstrating its significance in forming essential aspects of the self and collective identity.