Product Description
Healing from posttraumatic stress isn't easy. It takes courage, honesty and determination, and sometimes the process feels like it's uphill for longer than you'd like for it to be. You'll grow along the way, you'll learn so much, and your spirit can expand. It's a journey of many twists and turns, of many colors and hues, and of discovery.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 3 reviews)

Draws directly from her own life experience

Author Opal Rose draws directly from her own life experience in Dark Water: Stress After Trauma, a self-help guide to learning how to effectively cope with the fallout of severe trauma. Written in a conversational tone accessible to readers of all backgrounds, Dark Water adopts the view that a person suffering from post-traumatic stress has been injured as a whole being, and the entire neurophysiology needs to heal. Chapters discuss "Living with Recurring Symptoms and Startling Insights", "How does it Feel, to Feel?", "What Do You Do After Trauma?" and much more. Though Opal Rose is neither a psychologist nor a clinician, her honest appraisals speak directly from the heart of one who has been there, suffered that. "The bottom line is that it's necessary for you to figure out how you feel about being injured, how you deal with your anger and hurt about that, how you approach others who might be uncomfortable around you, and how you approach yourself and your future. Please remember that help for all of this is a good thing and that you don't have to undertake the healing process by yourself, even though you probably feel very alone now and then."
March 05, 2008

Highly Recommend!

An invaluable read for those struggling with the after affects of trauma and also for those seeking understanding of a relative, friend or aquaintance having a difficult time coping (in this day and age of sexual and domestic abuse and so many veterans returning home with emotional and psychological wounds, that pertains to just about all of us). Well worth the time to read.
November 14, 2007

interesting and helpful

This book is about healing from posttraumatic stress. It is about understanding what happens when one is experiencing posttraumatic stress, and offers thoughts about it. This book suggests that posttraumatic stress involves the whole person, that it is an injury, that one can move forward toward healing, and that professional help is a good idea. It suggests that the soul can grow.
October 25, 2007

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