The Living Legacy

Traumatic experiences leave a "living legacy" of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects. However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma. Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate the healing journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers: - Step-by-step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist - Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience - Worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately healing

Contains excerpts from papers delivered at the international conference "The Legacy of Holocaust Survivors - the Moral and Ethical Implications for Humanity", held by Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies, in association with the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, in Jerusalem in April 2002. The excerpts are arranged in four groups: Legacy, Faith, Memory, and Antisemitism. The latter category includes one six-page extract in which Per Ahlmark stresses that non-Jews, like himself, also have a duty to resist antisemitism and that dangerous antisemites want a world without a Jewish state. The other participants were Aharon Appelfeld, Walter Zwi Bacharach, Aharon Barak, Emil Fackenheim, Israel Gutman, Moshe Halbertal, Imre Kertesz, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Israel Meir Lau, Limor Livnat, Michael McGarry, Michael Melchior, Sallai Meridor, Samuel Pisar, Moshe Sanbar, Avner Shalev, Israel Singer, Simone Veil, and Elie Wiesel.

Your Living Legacy is about empowering parents to become more self-aware and confident in guiding their children to become emotionally healthy and successful adults. The book’s central focus describes 20 different parenting styles. Self-assessments enable the reader to identify their personal style and evaluate the impact on the child’s development as well as the parent-child relationship. Additional information on important topics include: Bonding Developmental Influences Communication Healing Relationships Letting Go. Helpful hints and tips to provide guidance on improving your parenting skills. This is an essential resource for any parent or caregiver who wants to take advantage of creating opportunities for positive development and enduring relationships.

Betty Issenman examines all aspects of winter and summer Inuit clothing, going back 4000 years, with particular emphasis on northern Canadian Inuit. She also describes the kinds of material and tools used to make the clothing. The focus is on on Inuit clothing as protection, identity, and culture bearer, roles it has played for thousands of years. No other book brings together contemporary and historical material from the circumpolar worlds with original research. Sinews of Survival is a fascinating study of Inuit clothing, past and present. It includes over 200 illustrations of various kinds of clothing. The voices of the Inuit are heard throughout the text in quotations from consultations and the literature. By describing one component of Inuit society, the author opens a pathway to understanding the culture as a whole.

Learn the history of The Navigators from one who was there at the start.

Awaking the Living Legacy is a 6-part toolkit for growth and transformation. Niccie artfully packs in 3 powerful teachings within one book; finding our life purpose, gaining health and wellness, and learning to accept great abundance? Niccie knows how to help you find your Living Legacy and passionately teaches you how to own it!

Your Living Legacy is reduced to $24.95 through the holidays for the best gift you could ever give to loved ones and friends. This book is a workbook to leave your Legacy to loved ones, friends and family. Filling in the pages is a labor of love, and it is the most important book you will ever write. I came upon this project out of pain and grief, but mostly out of necessity. My mother planned on living forever, it seemed, and then a wild card took us by surprise, and in a matter of weeks, she was gone. In a bedroom drawer, I discovered a simpler version of this book, one that I had given her three years earlier. The pages were a blank, pristine white, like clean sheets on a freshly made bed, unmarred by a restless sleeper. It lay empty, much like our bodies do without a spirit. I could only imagine what secrets had never been written, what wishes had never been shared. I was left in the wake of my mother's death to struggle with my brothers over details and deadlines, caught between fairness and futility. Nothing in this world truly belongs to us; rather we are entrusted as caretakers, shepherds in the field of life. My hope is that the anguish of others will be diminished using this journal. So, I encourage you to take the time to fill this out, while the sun is still high in the sky. Leave a legacy to comfort your loved ones in the days and weeks after your death. On these pages, you can provide answers to the many questions that remain once you are gone. You can make sure you will not be forgotten. My Living Legacy is your living legacy... forever. Please leave it by your bedside, write in it as you would a journal and in your handwriting, leaving your wishes, your love notes, concerns, issues, joy, memories and moments that will be everlasting for years to come.

Help your clients make sense of their most puzzling and shameful trauma symptoms with the innovative use of simple diagrams and explanations found in The Living Legacy of Trauma Flip Chart. Traumatized individuals often have trouble processing words and information, but visual images draw their attention, allow them to better understand their symptoms or struggles, and help them to engage more easily in treatment. Created by Janina Fisher, PhD, this flip chart makes psychoeducation a relational experience in which the client can feel understood and supported. It presents scientific information in an accessible, easy-to-understand manner that builds trust, even in the early stages of therapy, and allows trauma survivors to feel more empowered rather than victimized by their symptoms. Your clients will thank you for using it! Intended for interactive use in session, this simple, user-friendly format includes: - 21 full-color diagrams on client-facing pages - Explanations and key points on each corresponding therapist-facing page, making the concepts easy to teach - Whiteboard client pages for easy markup and reuse Topics covered include: - Common symptoms of trauma - The triune brain - How trauma memories are remembered or forgotten - Effects of trauma on the brain and body - Nervous system dysregulation - Window of tolerance - Traumatic attachment - Addictions and trauma - Dissociative phenomena - Stages of treatment