Overcoming Your Childhood Trauma

Embark on your trauma recovery journey with this safe and empowering workbook for healing childhood trauma

Drawing from their years of experience working with trauma, licensed clinicians Sostenes B. Lima and Erica Lima empower adult survivors with the resources and skills they need to heal old wounds and replace unhelpful defense mechanisms with healthier coping strategies. Learn to process your past, make meaningful changes in the present, and build a future that feels freer and more hopeful—without revisiting traumatic memories in painful detail.    

Key features of this workbook: 

• Understanding Trauma. Learn about the effects of childhood trauma and build up your internal resources so you can rewire the survival mind and strengthen your core self 
• Practical, Guided Exercises. Utilize clinically proven skills, techniques, and tools to achieve meaningful progress, no matter how unique and complicated your journey 
• Trauma-Informed Care. Explore multiple therapy modalities to best fit your needs, including attachment-based, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and more    
• Compassionate and Integrative. Set your own pace for your healing work and use a body-centered approach to stay grounded and safe when releasing stuck trauma 

“Overcoming Your Childhood Trauma will bring healing to many on their recovery journey. Incorporating the latest research and techniques, this workbook is packed with powerful interventions addressing the body, mind, and emotions. Using a holistic approach that draws on the work of top researchers and leaders in the field of trauma recovery, this workbook has synthesized treatment approaches that can increase progress in the healing process.” —Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC, internationally recognized expert in trauma and attachment theory and author of Attachment, Trauma and Attachment, The Socially Confident Teen, Puzzle Pieces, The Attachment Connection, and Leveling Up 

“Overcoming Your Childhood Trauma is a comprehensive workbook for working through your painful past. Drawing on everything we know about treating childhood trauma, these exercises will help you understand your triggered states, get to know your child parts, reconnect with your body, cultivate your inner resilience, and emerge with a new healing story. Internal family systems, EMDR, polyvagal, and somatic psychotherapy-friendly, this workbook is a rich resource for anyone who is serious about healing their childhood trauma. Brava!” —Colleen West LMFT, trauma-informed IFS expert and author of The Internal Family Systems Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational Tool for Unlocking the Incredible Healing Potential of the Multiple Mind

“Overcoming Your Childhood Trauma is a holistic, thoughtful, and thorough read for anyone who has experienced trauma in childhood. Divided into two parts, the workbook provides digestible information and guided techniques that accommodate various learning styles. As a therapist and someone in therapy, I found the modifications offered with each technique refreshing to see in a trauma book. The authors brought a beautiful comprehensive approach to treating childhood traumas. Overcoming Your Childhood Trauma is a must-have in every trauma-informed space.” —Adriana Alejandre, LMFT, Trauma therapist, EMDR approved consultant, founder of Latinx Therapy, and founder of EMDR and Trauma Therapy Center Sostenes B. Lima, LCSW, is a licensed therapist and the cofounder of Sunset Trauma Therapy in California and North Carolina, where he specializes in working with trauma survivors. He has extensive training in psychodynamic and attachment-based therapy and incorporates trauma-focused therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, mindfulness, and somatic-based therapies into his practice.  

Erica Lima, LCSW, is a licensed therapist and the cofounder of Sunset Trauma Therapy in California and North Carolina, where she specializes in working with people who have experienced trauma and childhood neglect and who struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, relationship OCD, and more. Erica has received specialized training in Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Somatic Parts Work (IFS) with Level 3 Certification, Somatic Attachment Therapy, Hakomi therapy, and Cultural Somatics for Racial Equity.