Catch Hold Of Gifts From A Challenging Childhood: Creating A Practice For Becoming Your Healthiest Self By Null Delivered In Leaflet

Book is reflective of the work she is so passionate about, I highly recommend the Journey of healing that this book can support, The information is foundational for the healing of self, marriages, and families, We use her work in our practice on a daily basis, I am so grateful for Jan and her work, This book is a great to better understand the teachings of Pia Mellody and to actually live them, Highly recommend. Ive been a therapist foryears and had been subtly searching for a method of practice to feel fully integrated in.
Self therapist client. All within the context of something we all go through, Our childhood experiences and journey into and through adulthood, This book is the embodiment of that practice, My experience has taught me that the way to healing is through connection, Self to self. Therapist to client. Jans excellent work touches on what I consider fundamental human healing as we understand our stories from our childhood, Not only is this book good for clients but also therapists, We are all in this together, Jans style of writing is down to earth, engaging, and practical, I finished the book understanding myself, my clients, and my work better, This will be a book I give many of my clients as I work with them in Pia Melodys foundational therapy model.
I cannot recommend this book enough! I love this book and it's really helped as I navigate my childhood trauma gifts! It's well written and actionable for me to get emotional movement on.
Great resource and read! I love this work and this practice, This book allows those of us who have experienced difficult childhoods to tackle complex and deep emotions for tremendous personal growth.
This growth is often contagious to significant others, and is invaluable for relationship building, I am a much stronger nurse practitioner, mom, wife, etc, thanks to this practice. While the book is useful for everyone, it is especially useful as a practice for both clinicians and their clients.
I love the practical applications, Through the lens of the authors own story of childhood trauma and her experience as a therapist helping others heal, Jan accomplishes her intention in writing this book.
As stated in the introduction of this wonderful book, Jan provides an effective way to turn the legacies of childhood trauma into a journey of healing and growth! She has truly taken her passion for the work of Pia Mellody, made it her own, and is helping the world heal, one person at a time! Using her own experience as a survivor of childhood trauma, and stories of many clients to illustrate, Jan's insight has helped me recognize examples of neglect in my fairly happy childhood in a family of nine children.


It's painful to recognize my parents' shortcomings, and at the same time, it's freeing to better understand what happened to me and my response to being neglected and lost in the crowd at key points in my development.
I am able forgive myself for some bad choices I made in response to the neglect,

There's no perfect childhood or parents, This book identifies the type and degree of trauma you may have experienced, and it might not be what your expected.


Jan outlines five specific practices to live in the present and shed the impact of parental mistakes, One of the most valuable practices for me is to establish healthier boundaries, to myself and in relationship to others.
I love the practice of asking for what I need and want, instead of being needless and wantless, like the "lost child.
"

I really appreciate her wisdom, and the courage to share her own experience at age, when she found her mother passed out on the floor from an overdose.
THANK YOU Jan for better understanding of myself and others and new practices for a better life, I've already bought a gift copy, Love this book! My therapist has been raving about it since way before it was published and when it finally came out, I had to purchase it.
Jan writes it so well and so clearly and made it very easy to understand, It was really helpful for me to read and re read this book, I strongly recommend it! This book deserves much thanstars!!!!! When I was four and a half years old, I found my mother passed out on her bedroom floor.
She had overdosedshortly after giving birth to my baby brother, and she went on to spend six months in a psychiatric hospital.
On one of the many days she was away, I remember sitting in the backseat of our car with my older brother as my father drove us to the store, when suddenly our car collided head on with another vehicle.
I was too young to understand everything happening at the time, but, in the months that followed, I became parentless for a span of time that seemed like years.
That experience set the stage for a lifelong interest in the impacts of childhood trauma, It also sparked my passion for healing others, Today, based on the model created by best selling author and trauma expert Pia Mellody Facing Co dependence, I share with you, Gifts from a Challenging Childhood: Creating a Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self.
In these pages, you will: Learn and adoptCore Practices for healthy living
Cultivate a framework for your functional adult Self
Gain clarity about your family of origin history
Reparent your historically hurt places
Speak your truth, and learn to have your own back
Gather and use resources to help you heal from childhood trauma
”In Gifts from a Challenging Childhood, author Jan Bergstrom describes with empathy and clarity the exact emotional, intellectual and neurological ways that childrens brains respond to trauma, and how the impact of that experience endures in the childs life throughout adulthood.
Bergstrom explains how our basic needs as children for love, protection,

validation and expression must be met by our parents and how, when these needs are not met in childhood, we can end up with one up or one down self esteem and over protective or under protective boundaries as adults.
In depth descriptions of supportive, therapeutic techniques abound in this book, from mindfulness to grounding to writing a letter to yourself.
Whether you experienced traumatic neglect or excessive control and enmeshment at the hands of your parents, this book will not only help you identify what went wrong for you, it will also provide you with validating, supportive and compassionate ways to reparent yourself.
”

Jonice Webb, PhD
Bestselling author of Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect and Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships.


“Jan's book is a precious guide to untangling the complications and difficulties many of us have in our adult lives, arising from traumatic childhoods.
Read it, underline it, take it with you on your personal journey, This book will bring you home, ”

Nick Morgan,
President of Public Words, Inc, a communications consulting company, and author of Can You Hear Me How to Communicate with People in a Virtual World.


“The devastating consequences of childhood trauma for the individual, families, and society at large are far reaching, and cannot be overestimated.
Jan Bergstroms new work builds beautifully on Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy model, offering hope and a detailed path forward for healing childhood wounds and living an authentic and empowered life.
”

Vicki Tidwell Palmer
Author of Moving Beyond Betrayal: TheStep Boundary Solution for Partners of Sex Addicts
.