You Are Not Your Trauma
An ACT Guide for Healing from Within
Robyn D. Walser and Darrah Westrup
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Stage 1. Safety and Skills Building: Living More Fully in the Here and Now
1. What Is Trauma Fallout?
2. What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
3. Identifying Your Values
4. Identifying Your Barriers
5. Opening to Emotional Experience
6. Cultivating Mindfulness and Present-Moment Awareness
7. Creating Distance from Traumatic Thoughts
8. Getting to Know Your Self
Stage 2. Planned Exposure to the Trauma: Facing Your Trauma to Regain Control of Your Life
9. Preparing for Exposure Work
10. Completing a Written Exposure
Stage 3. Reconnection to the Here and Now through Values: Building Resilience, Overcoming Obstacles, and Engaged Living
11. Taking Committed Action
12. Building Resilience
13. Overcoming Life’s Obstacles
14. Maintaining Long-Term Healing