Trauma-Driven Anxiety Workbook - by Hillary Straus (Paperback)

About the Book

Many people who've experienced trauma go on to struggle with anxiety, panic, and fear in their day-to-day lives. This evidence-based workbook offers a step-by-step approach to help readers address the underlying trauma at the root of their anxiety using energy psychology, nervous system regulation skills, and simple and effective tapping techniques. With this guide, readers will learn to move beyond fear, panic, and worry, and restore much-needed balance and calm.

Book Synopsis

Discover powerful mind-body techniques to help you overcome the pain of the past, cultivate resilience, and find peace and calm in the present.

If you've experienced trauma, you may also struggle with anxiety, panic, and fear in your day-to-day life. Unresolved trauma can result in a chronically dysregulated nervous system, making you vulnerable to stress and sleep disturbances. You may also feel like you're always on "high alert," anticipating the worst outcomes in any scenario. Left unchecked, your anxiety can result in major disruptions to your work, home, and social life. So, how can you heal the invisible wounds of past trauma and find calm in the here and now?

Written by a leading trauma expert, this evidence-based workbook offers a step-by-step approach to help you identify and heal the trauma at the root of your anxiety using energy psychology, nervous system regulation skills, and simple and effective tapping techniques. With this guide, you will learn to move beyond fear, panic, and worry, manage difficult emotions, and restore much-needed balance.

Discover quick and effective mind-body practices to help you:

• Identify and heal trauma-driven anxiety
• Effectively manage emotions
• Stabilize your nervous system
• Cultivate lasting resilience

As you practice the skills outlined in this workbook, you'll start to experience genuine feelings of inner-peace--as well as the confidence needed to move forward in your life.

Review Quotes

The Trauma-Driven Anxiety Workbook fills an important gap. It goes where most anxiety treatments don't, directly addressing the unresolved trauma that keeps anxiety alive in the body. Hillary Straus brings sound clinical judgment to a sophisticated blend of energy tapping and other somatic techniques, all presented in an accessible, step-by-step format that readers can actually use. This is mind-body trauma healing at its practical best.
--David Feinstein, PhD, coauthor of Tapping and The Promise of Energy Psychology.

"Hillary Straus has crafted an incredible workbook, with step-by-step guidance for identifying triggers healing from them. This book is filled with information and tools that will help anyone working to resolve their trauma or anxiety. Whether you are just beginning to explore your healing or looking to deepen the work you've already started, this workbook offers a structured, compassionate space to build awareness, resilience, and lasting change. Healing from trauma can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to face it alone."
--Satya Doyle Byock, LPC, author of Quarterlife.

"This workbook is an essential primer that will teach you how to recognize what you are actually feeling and what your emotions are communicating to you. This book clearly helps you differentiate between healthy and unhealthy emotions, and then teaches you the Healing From the Body Level Up (HBLU) method for rapidly releasing persistent and severe anxiety caused by trauma. I recommend that this book be used by everyone as a textbook for life, starting in high school!"
--Judith A. Swack, PhD, originator of the HBLU methodology, and author of Clear Trauma Now.

About the Author

Hillary Straus, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor, qualified supervisor, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Complex Trauma (CCPT-II) with more than fifteen years of clinical experience ranging from outpatient psychotherapy services specializing in trauma, anxiety, and healing from pathological relationships to acute psychiatric inpatient treatment. She has an MA in counseling and depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Additionally, Hillary has completed extensive training in integrative mental health, energy psychology, emotional freedom techniques, and Healing From the Body Level Up (HBLU) and presents at conferences regionally and nationally. She lives in the Greater Orlando, FL, area.