Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is PTSD and Do You Have It?
Chapter 2 Self-Advocacy: An Overview and Initial Self-Assessment
Chapter 3 Is Anger Worth the Hangover? Strategies for Letting GO
Chapter 4 Feel Better by Changing the Way You Talk to Yourself
Chapter 5 The Power of Nonnegative Thinking
Chapter 6 Managing Stress by Controlling Muscle Tension
Chapter 7 Why PTSD Persists and a Path to Your Recovery
Chapter 8 Overcoming the Attitude That You’re Overwhelmed or Have No
Power
Chapter 9 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Guilt but Were Afraid to
Ask
Chapter 10 How to Get Rid of Your Guilt
Chapter 11 “Supposed to” Beliefs That Lead Women to Stay or Go Back
Chapter 12 Assertiveness, Aggressiveness, and How to Take the High Road
Chapter 13 Managing Contacts with Former Partners
Chapter 14 Overcoming Fear by Exposure to Harmless Reminders
Chapter 15 How to Identify Potential Perpetrators
Chapter 16 Self-Advocacy Review: How Have You Changed?
References