From Trauma to Healing: Seeking Solace and Safe Places to Fall

Is unresolved trauma holding you back in unseen ways?

MOST OF US HAVE BEEN IMPACTED by trauma in some form or another. Whether big or small, unresolved trauma can damage your relationships, threaten your health and happiness, and negatively impact your quality of life. Yet, by understanding and balancing the effects of trauma, you have the power to heal and feel safe again. In her debut book, seasoned behavioral expert Dr. Bobbi Lambert weaves together her powerful personal story of reconciling trauma in her own life with inspiring client stories from her 35-year career. By sharing beautifully synthesized scientific truisms and tools, the author gently wraps her readers in a warm blanket of hope to heal from their own experiences of trauma.

If you’re ready to release the shackles of past trauma and be in control of your own destiny, this book will guide you to:

•Turn negative experiences and past traumas into positive outcomes
•Find solace and safety for yourself and in your relationships with others
•Seek the comfort of unconditional love as a counterbalance to trauma, grief, and loss
•Recognize and overcome obstacles to living a full, free, and meaningful life
•… and much, much more.

"Dr. Lambert has been a subject-matter expert on trauma since the early 1990s. Her book is a wonderful, brilliant resource on the nature of trauma and the path to successful recovery. This book will be a treasured resource and companion for the individual trauma survivor, family members, physicians, trauma therapists, the clergy, and anyone wanting a deeper and nuanced understanding of the varied trauma experience, as well as paths towards recovery. Dr. Lambert guides us through the recovery process with clarity, very accessible content, and a wisdom evident in her courageous sharing of her own journey through trauma to a better place. The book reads as though you are having a safe, comfortable conversation with Dr. Lambert. In my 40 years of clinical practice and organizational consulting, this is the best book on trauma that I have ever read. You will come away with knowledge, a sense of purpose, and the seeds of a deep hope."
—Steven Flannes, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

"As a primary care physician in practice for over 30 years, I often treat the symptoms of emotional trauma—heart palpitations, chest pain, depression, anxiety attacks, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, and the like—rather than offering anything that’s really effective at healing the wounds of trauma, other than time. Dr. Lambert’s book spells out clear avenues to healing from deep trauma that are available to everyone, regardless of the type of trauma experienced or the sufferer’s background or resources. Rather than relying on medications to relieve emotional and related physical pain and suffering, this book offers the reader roadmaps to transforming trauma to new and empowering perspectives, allowing us to regain control of fear, see obstacles as a means to new and valuable awareness, and imagine the possibilities of wholeness, acceptance, and unconditional love. Understanding how to redirect a life of fear, anger, and self-defeating thoughts into one of hope, balance, purpose, and peace may be just pages away."
—James C. Gardner, MD, Author Overcoming Anxiety, Panic and Depression: New Ways to Regain Your Confidence (2000), Phobias and How to Overcome Them: Understanding and Beating Your Fears (2005), and The Anxiety Toolbox Program: The Comprehensive, Integrative Approach to Overcoming Anxious Emotions (2017)

Barbara "Bobbi" Lambert, PhD, is a cofounder of Confidante, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area human resources consulting company that specializes in creating workplace harmony and preventing and managing disruptive workplace behavior. She has a doctorate and a master's degree in Psychology. Since 1985, Dr. Lambert has worked with employers interested in the on-site management of individual performance and interpersonal problems, teamwork improvements, organizational development and change, stress, trauma and violence. Please visit www.confidante.com for more information or connect with Dr. Lambert through LinkedIn.