{"product_id":"theres-a-word-for-that-understanding-complex-trauma-when-you-feel-broken-lost-and-confused-a-survivors-guide-to-cptsd-and-finding-your-way-back-to-yourself","title":"There's A Word For That- Understanding Complex Trauma When You Feel Broken, Lost, and Confused: A Survivor's Guide to CPTSD and Finding Your Way Back to Yourself","description":"Why can't I function like I used to?\nWhy do I feel like I don't matter?\nWhat if I don't even want to keep going anymore?\nIf you’ve ever asked these questions—or lived inside their silence—this book is for you.\nThere’s A Word For That: Understanding Complex Trauma When You Feel Broken, Lost, and Confused is a compassionate and easy-to-understand guide for survivors of Complex PTSD, narcissistic abuse, and betrayal trauma. Written by a lifelong survivor and seasoned university educator, this book blends lived experience, research-backed insight, and a trauma-informed teaching style to help you understand why it hurts the way it does—and how to begin moving forward.\nInside this volume, you’ll find:\n\n• Clear, validating entries about emotional overwhelm, feeling unable to function, losing the will to go on, and believing you don’t matter\n\n• Gentle metaphors, fictional vignettes, and real-world examples that bring clarity to confusing experiences\n\n• Supportive scripts to help you find words for medical appointments, boundary-setting, and difficult conversations\n\n• Accessible, modular articles that don’t need to be read in order—perfect for scattered thoughts and low-focus days\n\n• Guidance on healing the body, processing grief, rebuilding self-worth, and exploring the question: “Did they ever love me?”\n\n• Optional reflections for people of faith (easily skipped if triggering)\n\n• Inclusive awareness of cultural and systemic trauma affecting marginalized communities\nWhether you read one page or an entire chapter, this book meets you where you are—with empathy, validation, and no pressure to be “all better” before you’re ready. It doesn’t gloss over the messy, complicated parts. Instead, it offers language. Permission. A path.\nYou’re not broken. You’re not imagining it. And you’re not alone.\n\nLet this book walk with you—one word at a time.\n\nWhat readers are saying:\n\n“I could cry with relief reading this. I’m not useless and crazy—I have many levels of trauma and I need gentleness and care.”\n\n“Finally! Someone who gets me! You wrote things I have thought and felt but never said out loud.”\n\n“This gave me the language for something I’ve been trying to explain my whole life.”\n\n“Wow. Just… wow. I feel like you wrote this book for me.”\n\n“This article didn’t just explain—it honored what I’ve been through. I feel seen.”\n\n“Your words gave me hope again. Thank you.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0FKHX13GD\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.B0FKHX13GD.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Tift, Ellen\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46164975943877,"sku":"LFV.B0FKHX13GD.VG","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/theres-a-word-for-that-understanding-complex-trauma-when-you-feel-broken-lost-and-confused-a-survivors-guide-to-cptsd-and-finding-your-way-back-to-yourself","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}