Walker Pete - Complex PTSD. From Surviving to Thriving.pdf

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Testimonials about Pete Walker’s first book,

The Tao of Fully Feeling,

and his website:

www.pete-walker.com

I am writing from Survivors of Abuse Recovering (S.O.A.R.) Society, located in Canada. We

would like to include “13 Steps for Managing Flashbacks” in our resource manual.

I found myself. I found myself in your words. It’s as if you had unzipped me, stepped inside my

traumatized inner self, meandered around a bit, come back outside, and wrote about what you

discovered inside of me. For the first time in my life.......and I’m in my fifties now........I don’t

feel defective......or crazy.......or “weird”.......or even unlovable. — D.M.

I sat in the San Francisco Airport reading your book (in the washroom, shaking and weeping) to

get the courage to go the next leg of the trip. It helped me so much just to know that you live in

that area-strange when I haven’t even met you! Your website and book are invaluable to me. —

A. R.

I want to thank you so much for all the help you have given me (and all the people I’ve passed

your website link onto since finding out about it). Your understanding of emotional flashbacks

has made an enormous difference in my life. I’ve gone from being smashed about by huge waves

to having a surfboard on which I can ride at least some of them, and even if I fall off into it, I

know it won’t last forever. — J, New Zealand

Thank you for all of your educational information with regards to PTSD and abandonment. I

have finally found something that I have tried to explain to therapists for years. Every single

piece of information is exactly what I experience from my PTSD and attachment depression. —

I thank you on a personal and professional level. Your articles on healing from CPTSD have

excited me and validated me both. I will be a better therapist now, and heal further in my own

life. — D

Your article will be one of my regular handouts now to my clients. Needless to say I feel this

information and the way you articulate it is a life saver! — L.P

How impactful all you have written has been for me and how much healing I have found in the

pages of your website. Like the authors you note in your article on bibliotherapy - I was

convinced you would have empathy for me had I the occasion to meet you - and here, in this

moment, that belief is powerfully actualized. — J.S.

I have been labeled and diagnosed with everything from panic disorder to separation anxiety and

attachment disorder, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety, etc. Then I found a therapist who said

I had PTSD from long-term emotional abuse from my father and emotional neglect from my

mother and that’s when things really started to click. I feel like everything I have been reading

from this website is the final piece to the puzzle that I have been searching for in my journey. It

is indeed very empowering and liberating. — A.M.

I’m a long way into my own recovery process now and have recently reached a point of wanting

to look back and celebrate how far I’ve come. Your words were just what I needed to see at this

time. I feel really seen and understood and appreciated. What a gift. — P.

After a degree in psychology, training in counseling and decades of therapy this is the first time

I’ve read something that describes my internal state! — F.K.

I’ve been working with your book for a few years, and for the first time in my life I’m able to be

myself and feel a full range of feelings - and my kids are starting to flower due to this hard work.

So thank you. — N.A.

I wanted to extend my gratitude for all the information you have made available on complex

PTSD. Clearly the best resource on the internet. — J.C.

I found your online articles about 5 years ago, and have consistently come back to them as I

work through Complex PTSD with a wonderful therapist. Your words are sturdy and

compassionate and direct and I now find life worth living again. P.S. I keep a copy of 13

Steps/Flashback in my purse. — P.B.

This is and will always be a historic day in my life; simply from stumbling onto your articles.

Twelve years of huge wastes of treatment time suffering. You’ve nailed it. I’m talking van der

Kolk could learn from you. I’ve always hated the psych chatter of how great it is to be able to put

a name to this or that or blah, blah. But I stand converted. It is absolutely a miracle to know

emotional flashbacks ‘fit’ the ‘thing’. — M.

I’ve read your articles many many times. Particularly on abandonment depression, you have

given me hope to refrain from committing suicide. Thank you so much for taking the time to

write these exceptional articles on the internet. I cannot thank you enough. — T.M., N. Ireland

I just finished your book. It is powerful and gentle. I am starting your book over now and am

using a highlighter as I go through it again. You invite the reader into a warm therapeutic

relationship as you write. A beautiful, beautiful book! Thank you — A. R.

I wanted to thank you for sharing your work on your website. It was exactly what I needed to get

an area of my life unstuck! Your work is insightful, your suggestions are doable, and most

importantly they resulted in achieving the gentle shifts most needed to change my life. — L.K.

Your articles have offered more insight and hope to me as a CPTSD sufferer, than any other, and

I am grateful for this and would like to share this knowledge with others. Please could we have

permission to publish your articles on

www.ptsdforum.org

Reading your article was like the clouds clearing up and the sun coming out. I’m not crazy, I’m

not stupid, I’m not broken forever. I just have emotional flashbacks and

it’s not my fault.

— M.L.

I’ve never read something that helped me gain such personal insight and clarity to my own life

experience. After years of working with coaches, healers, and therapists, I’ve never been able to

‘pinpoint’ what exactly was happening in my own internal processing. I never clearly fit in any

‘box’ or diagnosis... that is, until now. It is such a relief to read these articles and know that what

I struggle with ‘makes sense’ based on my difficult life (and childhood) experiences. And it’s an

even greater relief to recognize that there are ways to approach and manage this in a positive

way. — R.T.

I don’t think it would be an understatement to tell you that your work has possibly saved my life

as well as my fiancé’s life. We both have complex PTSD and had both pretty much given up on

life. Your material has allowed us to understand what is happening to us. It has really opened my

eyes. — M. M.

You are a gift to me and thousands of people who have suffered like me and who struggle to find

their anger (it’s coming!), self-protection, self-sorrowing, growth. I am re-building, re-parenting

myself. — L.K., U.K.

I just re-read your book and underlined almost the whole thing. I have gotten so much from your

web-site and now the book. Three years plus into therapy, I am amazed at how much I have

changed. It blows my mind when I read the fawning stuff now, and realize that I don’t really do

that anymore. — A.

I have been to counseling, psychologists, psychiatrists, spiritual help, you name it; I have tried it.

I have many self-help books and online resources. They all give me some helpful information,

but, your article gave me more than anything ever has. — J. T.

I have been working in the field of counseling education for 12 years, and I can honestly say, I

have never found information and theory such as this before. — C.M., Asst. Professor of

Counseling Psychology

I felt compelled to write and thank you for your article on complex PTSD. Reading it has for the

first time allowed me to cry real tears from the depths of my body for the pain and loss I

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