You Are Not Your Trauma - by Caroline Beidler & Diana Dalles (Paperback)

About the Book

You Are Not Your Trauma helps you identify unhealthy patterns that keep you stuck and live more freely without your trauma holding you back.

Book Synopsis

Break the Cycle-Transform Generational Trauma into Personal Growth and Recovery

In You Are Not Your Trauma: Uproot Unhealthy Patterns and Heal the Family Tree, mental health and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler, MSW, uncovers the profound connection between generational trauma and personal healing-and how we can rewrite our stories of pain into recovery. Through personal storytelling, insightful research, and actionable guidance, Beidler shows that while trauma may be inherited, healing can be too.

By exploring five transformative rhythms-about self-worth, compassion, courage, honesty, and grace-this book provides a clear path to lasting change. Also included are practical steps like journaling through family patterns, setting healthy boundaries, and creating self-care rituals that will help you reclaim your life with purpose and strength.

Enriched with powerful stories from Beidler's own mother, Diana Dalles, this book offers a heartfelt and honest look at how trauma takes root across generations-and how we can finally disrupt the cycle. You Are Not Your Trauma empowers you to move beyond inherited pain, embrace personal growth, and step into a future of resilience and renewal. It is more than a book, it is an experience.

Review Quotes

The knowledge and understanding Caroline Beidler shares in You Are Not Your Trauma make this one of the best books on the subject I have found. If you've experienced trauma and are having trouble believing it can become part of your past, this is the book for you. -Darlene Brock, President, The Grit and Grace Project and author of Raising Great Girls

Trauma is not what happens to you, but your responses to it. Caroline Beidler comes alongside as a trusted expert and gentle friend to show you how to make the changes you need to uproot those unhealthy responses and bring the light of hope to the future. -W. Lee Warren, MD, neurosurgeon and award-winning author, and host of The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast

Caroline's writing is suffused with an incredible integrity and intensity that is uplifting. Her openness, insights, and intellectual generosity make her a powerful voice in the addiction recovery literature. -David Best, Director, Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (CARR) Leeds Trinity University

Rife with humor, research and a poignant recounting of her and her mother's traumatic experiences, this book invites us to consider our own trauma, with Caroline Beidler providing a roadmap for how to move forward, if and when we are ready to embark on our own healing journey. -Dawn Nickel, PhD, Founder, She Recovers Foundation

From the first page, I was drawn into its compassionate embrace, captivated by deeply personal stories and practical wisdom that shine through like rays of hope. The love and strength guiding readers toward self-compassion and transformation could light up the world, showing us all a path to a brighter, trauma-free future. -Mulka Nisic, Chair, Global Gender Committee, WFAD

Caroline Beidler masterfully guides us through all the implications of what trauma does, weaving her own story throughout with superb creative writing skills. Thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and hopeful, this book is a testament to resilience and the healing power of personal narrative. -Pastor Ed Treat, Founder and CEO, The Center of Addiction & Faith

You Are Not Your Trauma is for anyone who longs for a future brighter than their past. Caroline has gifted us with a hopeful truth: healing is not a distant dream, but a tangible journey within reach. These pages offer more than just words, they offer rhythms that inspire movement towards freedom, one day at a time. -Manda Carpenter, author of Soul Care to Save Your Life