Overview of Seeking Safety and Finding Your Best Self: Two models for trauma and/or addiction with Lisa Najavits, PhD-Handout: Finding Your Best Self: A new model for trauma and/or addiction

Handout: Finding Your Best Self: A new model for trauma and/or addiction

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"Finding Your Best Self" is a new recovery model for trauma and/or addiction that can be used as self-help or conducted by counselors or peers in a group or individual format. The model consists of 35 short chapters that can be done in any order, in as few or many sessions as time allows. It evokes hope through emphasis on ideals and provides practical recovery skills, exercises, poignant language, and inspiring quotations. The model differs from the author's previous model, "Seeking Safety," in that it can be self-help or counselor-led, emphasizes personal recovery stories, and offers a different array of topics.<br /><br />The book includes a table of contents that outlines the chapters, as well as appendices that provide information on how others can help, how to conduct the model as a counseling or peer model, resources, an excessive behavior scale, and a brief quiz on trauma and addiction.<br /><br />One chapter excerpt discusses the importance of facing and accepting painful truths related to trauma and addiction. It emphasizes the courage and effort required to confront these truths and offers questions to help individuals explore and overcome their resistance to facing reality. Another chapter excerpt explores the concept of possible selves, both positive and negative, and how envisioning and working towards a better self can lead to sustained recovery.<br /><br />Additional excerpts from the book cover topics such as safe coping skills, forgiving oneself, body and biology, and the impact of trauma and addiction on relationships. The book also includes recovery voices from individuals who have experienced trauma and addiction, providing personal insights and perspectives.<br /><br />Overall, "Finding Your Best Self" presents a comprehensive and flexible recovery model for trauma and/or addiction, offering practical tools, insights, and support for individuals seeking to heal and improve their lives.

Keywords

trauma recovery

addiction recovery

self-help

counselor-led

peer support

group therapy

recovery skills

possible selves

safe coping

healing relationships

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