The trauma from your past cannot be undone, but you can take control of how it affects you. This compassionate journal offers a safe space to help process, heal, and restore your strength. Trauma and its effects can feel like an unrelenting storm, with thoughts and emotions shaking violently and unpredictably in your mind. But healing is possible. Your brain can actually reconnect these thoughts and emotions. You can guide this healing process through journaling. By writing down your thoughts, you can recognize, choose, and permanently adopt new ways of reacting to stress. You can create a new narrative of your life — one that frees you from the deepest-rooted and self-destructive thoughts and behaviors.

In this powerful guided journal, internationally recognized neuroscience journalist and author Donna Jackson Nakazawa outlines the inspiring, innovative, informed, and mindful Neural Re-Narrating program to help you:

• Recognize your past while engaging in the present moment
• Create a new and empowering written narrative that you can revisit over and over again
• Release worry and trauma from your body by transferring them onto the page
• Reduce anxiety and relieve symptoms of depression
• Gain inner peace - even in stressful situations

The act of letting go is essential when working through difficult or traumatic experiences. Through careful, guided writing experiences, you will find the strength to live authentically - with hope and optimism for the future.