Bøger af Brittany Forrester

In a world where stress and anxiety dominate our lives, this book offers an enlightening and empowering guide to understanding the vagus nerve's pivotal role in our emotional health. With eloquent prose and scientific insight, this book unveils the hidden connections between our nervous system and emotional well-being, unlocking the secrets to a healthier, happier life."The Polyvagal Theory Unveiled" serves as a beacon of hope, offering readers a roadmap to harness the power of their vagus nerve to heal, rejuvenate, and thrive. Whether seeking relief from chronic stress, enhancing your emotional resilience, or simply longing for a more profound connection with yourself and others, this book provides the wisdom and tools to embark on a transformative journey toward a healthier and happier life.Prepare to be enlightened, inspired, and empowered as you uncover the life-changing potential of "The Polyvagal Theory Unveiled."

Shame is a notoriously unpleasant emotion that almost all of us have experienced at least once in our lifetimes. Almost everyone knows what the feeling of shame is like. However, we are reluctant to disclose our shameful experiences. It is often mentioned that shame is a taboo subject. Ironically, we are ashamed of our shame. It seems to be much easier to say that 'I am angry/sad/nervous' than to say 'I am sorry." Rather than finding it liberating, there is an assumption that talking about shame is demeaning or is a sign of weakness. Therefore, until recently, there has been a shortage of research, understanding, and knowledge about shame, to the extent that shame and similar emotions, such as guilt, are used interchangeably in the literature. Since shame appears to be present in a wide variety of psychological disorders and is associated with mental health problems such as depression, social phobia, and eating disorders, it is necessary to extend our knowledge in this area and become well-equipped to deal with their shame.The current shame theorists suggest that shame is one of the so-called self-conscious emotions because it mainly involves evaluating the self. A scandal is believed to be an incapacitating emotion accompanied by the feeling of being small, inferior, and shrinking. The self, as a whole, is devalued and considered to be inadequate, incompetent, and worthless. Shame might also involve the feeling of being exposed, condemned, and ridiculed.Unlike basic emotions, shame does not seem to have distinctive universal facial expressions. It is not experienced similarly in different cultures. Emotions such as shame, pride, guilt, embarrassment, envy, empathy, and jealousy are associated with a sense of self and self-awareness; hence, they belong to a family of self-conscious emotions. To experience shame, individuals need an ability to form self-representations, internalize external values, and compare and evaluate themselves. Therefore, guilt is not experienced in species with lower cognitive skills and understanding.People tend to experience shame when they become aware of the difference between their actual and ideal self-representation, attribute an adverse event to the self and evaluate the self negatively, or see themselves as having a lower status. In this part, we look at each of these theories.In shame, there is a feeling of inadequacy, unworthiness, and inferiority. Guilt can occur when someone makes internal, stable, uncontrollable, and global attributions for a negative incident or feels they have a lower status concerning others.Women and people from underprivileged backgrounds, minorities, and working-class people are more prone to experience shame.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a severe accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or severe injury.PTSD can occur in all people of any ethnicity, nationality, culture, and age. PTSD affects approximately 3.5 percent of U.S. adults every year. An estimated one in 11 people will be diagnosed with PTSD in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely as men to have PTSD.People with PTSD have intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related to their experience that last long after the traumatic event. They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares; they may feel sadness, fear, or anger; and they may feel detached or estranged from other people. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong adverse reactions to something as ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental touch.People with a diagnosis of PTSD are defended and insecure about many things in life. To begin the process of healing in a therapeutic environment, it is important to create a safe place in which the individual can explore and share their experiences and understand why they are experiencing life as they do. This book may offer much to promote the healing and growth of those affected by complex trauma.