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The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors is an interactive and reflective book that explains the fundamentals of trauma, the underpinnings of worthiness, and the seven steps to building lasting self-worth with questions, activities, and inspiration that lead to a more intentional and fulfilling life.
The Worthy Woman Workbook: Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors is an interactive book that explains why healing from trauma is important to increasing self-worth. The Worthy Woman Workbook came about after publishing Healing Worthlessness: Coming into Self-Love as a Trauma Survivor, a courageous book about trauma and recovery where Desiree Leigh Thompson shares her story in detail about developmental and sexual trauma in hopes of helping other survivors find their own healing paths.
The Worthy Woman Workbook analyzes several concepts for healing that were shared in Healing Worthlessness. Thus, The Worthy Woman Workbook, is an educational tool that is self-reflective, thought provoking, and engaging so that the reader can gain insight into their own patterns of thought, emotions, and behaviors that are keeping them stuck in unhealthy habits and coping strategies. The workbook explains the fundamentals of trauma, the underpinnings of worthiness, the seven steps to building lasting self-worth with insightful questions, activities, and inspiration that lead to a more intentional and fulfilling life.

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Women

Wellness

Healing

Spiritual

Woman

Prayer

Survivors

The Women

Empowerment

Trauma

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Publié par	Balboa Press
Date de parution	06 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9798765230602
Langue	English

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The Worthy Woman Workbook
How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors
Desiree Leigh Thompson, BSN, RN, MSN
Author of Healing Worthlessness:
Coming into Self-Love as a Trauma Survivor

Copyright © 2022 Desiree Leigh Thompson, BSN, RN, MSN.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-3059-6 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3060-2 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/29/2022
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Why I Needed to Heal, and You Can Too
Introduction
SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS
Chapter 1Before You Begin
Chapter 2About Trauma
SECTION II: THE FOUNDATION
Chapter 3The Underpinning of Worthiness
Chapter 4What is Self-Worth?
SECTION III: PREPARATION
Chapter 5Words of Encouragement
Chapter 6How the Change Process Works
Chapter 7Escaping Pain Does Not Heal
SECTION IV: 7 STEPS TO FEELING WORTHY
Step 1Creating Awareness About Your State
Step 2Getting Vulnerable to Heal
Step 3How to Trust Yourself
Step 4Self-Reflective Writing for Self-Discovery
Step 5Understanding Self-Compassion
Step 6Acknowledge that You are Courageous
Step 7Deep Work is Needed to Experience Lasting Self-Love
SECTION V: FINAL WORDS
Chapter 8Are You Worth the Time?
Connect with Desiree
Bibliography
Dedication
The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors is intended for women or individuals who identify as women who have experienced chronic childhood abuse, sexual assault and rape, and/or intimate partner or domestic violence. This book offers great value with effective strategies. Take the time to actively engage with the interactive book and apply the ideas to your daily routine. The Worthy Woman Workbook is simple to use and has powerful self-reflective questions and activities so that you can easily learn new skills to support yourself. While on this journey, you will also gain great insight about yourself. May The Worthy Woman Workbook be a powerful support for you (or someone you know) on your healing journey.
Epigraph
“Until one is committed to their goals of healing, there is uncertainty and hesitation. The chance to retreat is high because when one starts moving forward without an undying commitment one withdraws to the well-known place of comfort, complacency, and convenience. It is only when one is wholly committed to their why, legacy, or calling, that one will remain and endure the uncomfortableness of healing, recovery, and change. With that, one creates new neuronal pathways in the body which supports new patterns of being – feeling, thinking, and doing. The uncomfortableness of healing and change eases and the internal angst or pain decreases until, once again, one challenges themselves with new levels of commitment. When one is entirely committed, a timely universal force moves in catching us with a sense of surprise, and all sorts of unexpected events never thought possible begin streaming because of one’s firm commitment.”
By Desiree Leigh Thompson
Why I Needed to Heal, and You Can Too
I had no emotional awareness and no formation of an identity. There was this internal state of nothingness. I couldn’t understand what I was feeling, and with that I lacked self-understanding of who I was. I couldn’t connect with me—that “self” that others know, where one imagines, dreams, feels, and plans for the future. The one you take for granted and know as you—that understanding of yourself and who you are as a person with beliefs and values, goals and abilities, and preferences. I had no me: no understanding of my feelings or of my self. There was only this disturbing sense of nothingness—a deep void, a separation, or a disconnection from who I was.
These words you just read may be quite complicated and even concerning to comprehend if you have never experienced developmental trauma (otherwise known as chronic childhood trauma) or severe emotional neglect and are not familiar with the consequences of cumulative abuse. I knew there was something not quite right with me for a few years. Even though I could not put my “finger” on it, I shrugged it off, but at a low point in my life when I was despondent and living in a dysfunctional relationship, I had a divine intervention, and the message I received was to “heal.”
At this point in my life, I had already hired a Tony Robbins life coach. It was 2006 and I was forty-one years old. With regularly scheduled sessions, my mind opened up to new ideas and ways of thinking. Soon after, I enrolled in a coaching program. It was an eighteen-month online group program. Less than a year later, I enrolled in a second coaching program. This one was in-person weekend workshops over the course of a year. I enrolled in the coaching educational programs because I wanted to learn how to better communicate with my children. I wanted to have a better and more intimate relationship with them. I wanted to learn how to draw ideas and dreams out of my sons so they could discover who they were and what they were interested in. I did not want them to struggle like I had struggled all my life. I also wanted to be a better mom. I knew I was mentally messed up from years of trauma because my emotional swings were erratic and sometimes uncontrollable and my mind was always thinking about suicide, and it was impacting my mental health as well as my children’s. I also wanted to be a better person, and I wanted to do the right thing for my family. I knew that the coaching programs would support me to gain insight into myself because I gained a lot of insight from my coaching calls with my life coach. I also knew that by enrolling in these coaching programs, I was going to be challenged by having to look at my belief systems and perspectives. It scared me, but I really wanted to start understanding me and where my perceptions, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors were coming from.
One principle of coaching education is before one coaches another person, one has to learn how to coach oneself and one has to be coached. I knew this was going to be difficult for me because I did not like when others prodded or asked me too many questions. I would get irritated and annoyed. I was okay with my own coach at home sharing privately, but in a group setting that would be a whole new level of intimidation. I knew I was typically resistant and defensive because that was my conditioned tendencies. I would get angry or shut down when others got too close to me or wanted to know more than I wanted to share. Clearly, this was a trust issue. I asked myself several time, “How was I going to react in a room full of people” during our meetups. I was expected to participate; that was my role as a coachee.
When I finally began the coaching programs, the group sessions caused a lot of inner angst and turmoil. Every time I attended either the weekly online calls or weekend workshops, I would leave the class with anxiety, frustration, or tears, to say the least. During coach training, I was constantly bombarded with specific questions about how I felt and my emotional state so that I could get connected to my desires and goals as well as understand my beliefs and perspectives, but it was extremely difficult trying to figure out my emotions or how I “felt” about things. Over and over again, I would ask myself, “What was I feeling?” but the answers never came. It was tough being in a room filled with people expressing their feelings with such certainty and with such a great understanding of themselves. It actually made me furious. I thought they were all exaggerating or lying. Their behavior did not seem real to me. I could not understand these people. I simply could not relate to them as they were connecting with themselves. I did not have this ability to join my mind to my feelings or my body to understand who I was from an emotional perspective. It was like there was a short circuit in my brain. I used to tell my life coach that I felt cut-off from my neck down. I was perplexed when someone asked me to describe my feelings. I could not name them, and I could not explain them, and I literally could not relate to these people. I felt out of place and like I did not belong.
I asked myself several times throughout the coaching progra