PTSD Survivor Speaks: Healing with a PTSD Workbook

A woman in Australia emailed me to say she’d found great relief by using a My PTSD Workbook. Naturally, I had to know more….

Michele Interviews Barb Jeffreys, survivor healing PTSD

“The book is an eBook and it is absolutely fantastic. GK Talbott puts everything into perspective and ‘makes’ you think about you. He has designed the book so that it will help the PTSD sufferer, policeman, fire-fighter, ER worker, soldier and so on.”

1. You attribute your success in progressing your healing to a book…. Tell us the title and how you found the book in the first place.

The title of the book is My PTSD Workbook, by GK Talbott. The book came to me by a recommendation from an ex-PTSD sufferer who was now counselling in a local support group. The counsellor was a Specialist Psychiatrist that had to deal with many different problems and was recommending the book to more than 50% of her patients.

She was recommending it because most of her patients could not afford a lot of visits and she knew they could afford the book at $47.95. Obviously she had read the book several times and studied its contents. She decided to trial the book on two patients with differing problems and varied lifestyles over a 3 month period. Although the techniques are amazingly simple and effective she realised the book would treat and cure most of her patients — including me.

2. Describe the book. What about it was so transformative?

The book is a Technique and Meditative based workbook. It allows you to go at your own pace and in complete privacy. My PTSD Workbook also explains the problem in an easy to understand language and is also very helpful to the family member that may want to help someone. My PTSD Workbook uses specialized techniques to teach how to manage stress, eliminating all reactions to trauma over time — and giving you the potential of a new start in life.

3. What actions did you take to heal as an outcome of reading the book?

CONFIDENCE!!!!!!! The book gave me an enormous uplifting experience, an air of excitement to get on with life. I was able to deal with ME, inside myself and my ISSUES. I was able to talk to the ‘voices’ that stopped me doing something OR pushed me into something. The book stopped me being NEGATIVE and turned me into a ‘Believer of ME’.

4. What changes have you seen in yourself since this new part of healing occurred?

I am now full of confidence — more so than I was before PTSD. I LOVE going out, meeting new people, some public speaking and I enjoy talking about my old PTSD problems and how I overcame them with the help of the My PTSD Workbook and my counselor.

5. What was the most effective part of the book for you? What was the most compelling idea that led to healing?

The workbook is organised in such a way that it may be used independently as a self-help tool. In early chapters Talbott describes the emotional effects of trauma and provides the reader with a means to begin processing this experience. Issues including feelings of safety, trust, and regaining control are reviewed at length. In each case, the reader is taken through the steps of gathering evidence from his or her life to address a particular need. I think the most compelling idea, or should I say ‘productive tool’, was the way it worked as a self-help tool mixed with the Meditation Audio. Both combined made me wake up every day feeling ready to get out of bed with no feelings of ‘fear’.

6. Would you describe for us how you feel differently now than you did before?

My life now is complete — I have my family back in their most important place: ‘my first priority’. I have a wonderful group of friends that get together regularly for lunches, etc., and we organise charity functions. I enjoy going along to a Trauma support group and counseling other sufferers who are in a great need of help. We are currently working with Beaten Wives, Post Natal Depression, War Veterans, Crash Victims, A Rape Victim, Bush Fire Victim, Ex Police, ER Worker and a Fire Fighter.

7. What tip(s) would you give someone who wants to take healing to a new level?

• Do your best to make contact with someone to discuss the problem. All organisations operate under strict confidentiality.
• DON’T lock the problem up within yourself.
• DEFINITELY Try the MY PTSD Workbook, by GK Talbott

8. What’s the single most effective healing action you’ve discovered?

Reading the workbook. ALSO: Smiling and Laughter.

‘PTSD Survivor Speaks’ is a weekly feature. To contribute contact Michele.

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