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Possible Resources for Supporting You

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  • Creating Safety
    • 1. Checklists
    • 2. Create/Build a ‘Safety Plan’
    • 3. Build/Create a ‘Support System’
    • 4. Practice ‘Self-soothing activities/strategies’
    • 5. Resolve, get out of or reduce exposure to abusive relationships
      • Some information about renting from a Housing Association in Glasgow
    • 6. If you have a food addiction, love addiction, sex addiction or drug addiction consider a self-help support group
      • Some information about Overeaters Anonymous
      • Some information about Narcotics Anonymous
    • 7. Some Suggestions for Helping with Flashbacks
  • Some information
    • about Abuse and Boundaries in Relationships
      • 1. Information
        • ‘Abuse and Types of Abuse’
        • ‘The Pattern/Process of Prolonged and Repeated Abuse within a Relationship’
        • ‘The Pattern/Process of Prolonged and Repeated Abuse within a Relationship in Childhood (‘Child Abuse’)’
        • ‘The Pattern/Process of Prolonged and Repeated Sexual Abuse within a Relationship in Childhood (‘Child Sexual Abuse’)’
        • ‘Boundaries in Relationships’
      • 2. Links to websites
      • 3. Links to books/workbooks
        • Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
        • Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
        • A Gift To Myself: A Personal Workbook and Guide to Healing The Child Within
        • Soul Survivors: A New Beginning for Adults Abused as Children (by Patrick Gannon)
        • Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
      • 4. Checklists and severity rating scales
      • Prolonged and Repeated Abuse within a Relationship/Relationships within a Group
    • about Trauma and Dissociation
      • 1. Information
        • ‘Trauma, Types of Trauma and its Cause/their Causes’
        • ‘Complex Trauma Arsing out of Prolonged and Repeated Abuse Within a Relationship’
        • ‘Trauma and the Body’
        • ‘Uses of Dissociation’
        • ‘Some Suggestions for Working with Trauma and Helping with Flashbacks’
        • Some Medical/Psychiatric Diagnoses
      • 2. Links to websites
      • 3. Links to books/workbooks
        • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
        • Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
        • Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children
        • I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
      • 4. Checklists and severity/frequency rating scales
    • about Self-harm/injury
      • 1. Information
        • ‘Self-harm/injury as a Response to Prolonged and Repeated Abuse’
        • ‘Self-harm/injury as a Way to Self-soothe’
        • ‘Some Suggestions for Helping with Self injury’
        • ‘Some Information about Scars’
        • ‘Some other Self-soothing Activities/Strategies’
      • 2. Website link and book link
        • A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
  • Some Possible Resources
    • 1. Online communities
    • 2. Workbooks & books
      • Workbooks mainly on Creating Safety/Stability
        • Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
        • Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children
        • Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
      • Workbooks mainly on Approaching Feelings/Memories and Integration
        • A Gift To Myself: A Personal Workbook and Guide to Healing The Child Within
        • Soul Survivors: A New Beginning for Adults Abused as Children
          • paper/hardback
          • ebook
          • Survivor to Thriver free download
          • Survivor to Thriver free web book
        • I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
      • Books
        • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
        • Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
    • 3. Checklists and severity/frequency rating scales (for traumatic, abusive and dissociative experiences)
      • Traumatic/Abusive Experiences Severity Scale
      • Childhood Traumatic/Abusive Experiences Severity Scale
      • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Checklist
      • Dissociative Experiences Frequency Scale
    • 4. Self-help support groups
      • Online/by phone
        • Some information about Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
        • Some information about Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
        • Some information about Co-Dependents Anonymous
      • in Glasgow
    • 5. Other groups
      • i. Structured groupwork for women who have been sexually abused
      • ii. Group therapy
      • iii. Encounter groups etc
    • 6. Private hospital/clinic
    • 7. Meditation
      • 1 Guided breath and metta meditations
      • 2 Meditation groups and retreat
    • 8. Focusing
      • 1 Focusing instructions
        • Link to ‘An Introduction to Focusing: Six Steps’ (The International Focusing Institute)
      • 2 Guided focusing sessions and short courses
    • 9. Other checklists and exercises
      • Section I (Surfacing feelings/experiencing)
        • Some of My Needs
        • Who am I?
        • Naming/Describing some of My Feelings
        • Working with My Anger
        • Boundaries in Relationships
      • Section II
        • Stressful experiences/events
        • Writing an unsent letter
        • Some Body Attitudes
        • My Loss History
        • Some Habitual Ways of Disconnecting from Others
      • Section III (Strengthening myself)
        • Some Spiritual Attitudes
  • A Focus(es) for How You may Use Counselling
    • Personal Questionnaire
      • Problem Questionnaire (exercise to create a Personal Questionnaire)
    • Strathclyde Inventory – 16
      • Strathclyde Inventory
    • Process Continuum Scale
    • Reviewing counselling
      • Change Form
      • Helpful Aspects of Therapy Form
      • Post-Session Questionnaire
      • Therapeutic Relationship Scale
Some Possible Resources (or information about/links to) │ 8. Focusing

8. Focusing

 

‘”Focusing” is the…process which ensues when the individual attends to the[ir]…experiencing.’1

 

 

1. Focusing instructions

(odt version)

 

2. Guided focusing sessions and short courses

online
in Glasgow

 

1Eugene Gendlin, ‘A Theory of Personality Change’, Personality Change, eds. Philip Worchel and Donn Byrne (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1964) 11.

 

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