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| A Few Wonderful Books |
| 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
By Dr. Wayne Dyer This book will give the reader the hope and then the peace to overcome inner turmoil, especially when dealing with PTSD. It is God centered and helps one find their spiritual center in God. |
| Recovering From the War: A Guide for All.....
By Patience H.C. Mason This classic self-help book investigates the costs of war for soldiers and their families through interviews with 60 Vietnam veterans. Learn what veterans faced, the normal effects of war, how PTSD affects families, and how vets and their families can get better. Patience Mason is the wife of Vietnam veteran Robert Mason (author of the best-selling Vietnam memoir, Chickenhawk). Her writing has an unique appeal to veterans and their family members because she has experienced what they are experiencing, has felt what they feel�and is recovering from the war. Truly the vetwives' bible, this book is most easily purchased online at Patience Press |
| Healing Trauma By Peter A. Levine An excellent resource for women who have Secondary Trauma from living with men who have combat-related post traumatic stress. �Trauma does not have to stem from a major catastrophe,� Dr. Levine writes. �We become traumatized when our ability to respond to a perceived threat is in some way overwhelmed.� In Healing Trauma, he explains how the energy aroused by a threat can become �frozen� in our bodies, disrupting our connections to everything around us. Then, on the 80-minute CD, he guides us through a 12-phase program of physical and mental exercises to �re-negotiate� past trauma, relieve present symptoms, and develop resilience for the future. We also find sections on healing sexual trauma; �first aid� to help others face trauma without long-term effects; and using trauma as a spiritual pathway to transformation. |
| Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges.....
By Aphrodite Matsakis Reviewer: Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., author of Achilles in Vietnam, is a psychiatrist whose only patients are Vietnam combat veterans in the Boston VA Outpatient Clinic. "I am officially an expert in combat PTSD with all sorts of fancy letters after my name, and I can say that Aphrodite Matsakis's Vietnam Wives and Patience Mason's Recovering From The War do more good than a planeload of folks like me. Nobody should have to go through it alone--not the veteran, not his or her spouse, not their children, parents, friends, employers, therapists. Healing (and protection against secondary traumatic stress) happens only in community--at least that's what I conclude from 11 years working with veterans. Both of these books are useful to not only their main audience - the veteran's spouse - but to veterans themselves and anyone else who wants to make their hearts wiser and their understanding deeper. " --from Amazon.com |