The Soulful Journey of Recovery: A Guide to Healing from a Traumatic Past for Acas, Codependents, or Those with Adverse Childhood Experiences - Paperback

by Tian Dayton (Author)

More than just a book full of the latest information, this is a dynamic, interactive, and personalized journey of recovery for those impacted by adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Finally, they can put their past behind them where it belongs!

For those who have grown up in a family with addiction, mental illness, or other adverse childhood experiences (ACES), the heartache and pain doesn't end when they grow up and leave home. The legacy can last a lifetime and spread to generations unseen, as author Janet Wotitiz first showed readers in the groundbreaking Adult Children of Alcoholics. In The ACoA Trauma Syndrome Dr. Tian Dayton picked up where Dr. Woititz left off, filling in the decades of research that tell us why pain from yesterday recreates itself over and over again in our today. In The Soulful Journey of Recovery, Dr. Dayton gives us the how.

There is a journey of recovery that you can start today. Simple, elegantly written and researched, poignant, penetrating, and on point, Dr. Dayton will move with you through the confusion, pain, and anger you may carry in secrecy and silence. Through engaging and enlightening exercises, you will give voice to hidden wounds and space to your innermost emotions and thoughts. Online links will also offer guided meditations, film clips and other tools to enhance the work you do in the book. You will learn what happened to you growing up with dysfunction and you will learn how to deal with it in the present. You will discover that recovery is a self-affirming life adventure, and the kindest and best thing you can do for yourself and future generations. Some books can change your life. This is one of them.

Author Biography

Tian Dayton, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at The Meadows. A creative arts therapist, she has an M.A. in educational psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a board-certified trainer in psychodrama. She is the author of 15 books including Neuropsychodrama, The ACoA Trauma Syndrome, Emotional Sobriety, Trauma and Addiction, Forgiving and Moving On and The Living Stage. She taught psychodrama at New York University for eight years prior to becoming the Director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute. Dr. Dayton is a fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP), editor-in-chief of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry & Group Psychotherapy. She is also the winner of The Mona Mansell Award and The Ackermann Black Award, The Scholar's Award, The President's Award and The Gratitude Award. Dr. Dayton has been a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Montel, Rikki Lake, John Walsh, and Geraldo and a blogger for Thrive Global and The Huffington Post.