Mending Minds: Healing the Damage of Psychological Trauma - Paperback

by Robyn Semple (Author)

Mending Minds: Healing the Damage of Psychological Trauma serves as both a valuable resource and a beacon of hope for individuals facing mental illness and trauma. This compassionate self-help guide integrates the latest research, personal stories, and practical advice. The author's authenticity and vulnerability shine through, giving readers comfort and understanding. This book focuses on hope and healing, explaining how and why psychological trauma can affect us, and how we can recover. Robyn Semple is a retired registered nurse from Ipswich, Queensland, and a mother of three adult sons. She has more than 40 years of lived experience with anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder caused by psychological trauma. Her writing reflects extensive research, and her passion is to educate others on mental illness. Her focus is on explaining that mental illnesses have biological origins they are as physical in causality as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and asthma, which will quash the stigma and shame associated with these conditions. This is her first book.