Christi Madison has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is Brain Healing and Trauma.
Sometimes I Cry
Summary
A biography about Jill Strausburg, four-time Oprah guest and her journey of weight-loss surgery. This is the painful story of weight loss, acceptance of self, yearning for the love of family, death, healing, and ultimately forgiveness. Jill Strasburg shares the intimate details of her life's journey as she struggled to find her place in the world. Given three months to live, she fought through the medical issues and beat the odds.
©2020 Cedar Fort Publishing and Media (P)2021 Cedar Fort Inc
Communication Mistakes Couple Makes
Summary
We all want loving and successful relationships, but we don't always know how to achieve them. Over time, negative cycles can develop, and loving feelings can turn into frustration, rage, and even disappointment. The more you try to get your partner to do what you want and need, the less he or she seems inclined to do so. Or, maybe, you're in the honeymoon stage of a relationship and want to know how to make the good feelings last. Wherever you're at, research shows that certain ways of relating and being together can increase your chances of maintaining love and togetherness for the long haul. Being loving toward your partner, expressing affection and appreciation, and spending time together in activities that build intimacy can create the glue that holds your relationship together. Conflict is a part of any couple relationship, even with the happiest couples with a long history. Typical issues include money, sex, children, in-laws, and intimacy. The pandemic has added another layer of tension to many couple relationships. It might sound conflicting, but a longstanding body of marital research shows that couples who argue are more likely to stay together than couples who avoid facing issues. This book suggests that couples who are stable in their relationship yet are not happy with it may have something positive to teach us about the dynamics of marriage that has been previously overlooked.
©2020 Emily Dixon (P)2020 Emily Dixon
Organizing and Big Scary Goals
Summary
Are you looking for a fresh, authentic approach to living a more organized life? Are you ready to move beyond “how to” and be more personally practical about managing your stuff, time, and tasks? Organizing and Big Scary Goals offers listeners alternative, customizable, and most importantly, realistic ways to look at and reflect upon what is possible with managing the overwhelming stuff of everyday life. Through a series of relatable anecdotes, thought-provoking questions, and the author’s personal quest to tackle a tough challenge, listeners gain insight on tapping into different ways to approach their organizing stuck spots without relying upon one-size-fits-all solutions. Organizing and Big Scary Goals sounds like a series of short stories with doses of humor and irony - ideal for anyone who has experienced frustration, shame, and even fear about meeting the organizational standards of others.
©2019 Sara S. Skillen (P)2020 Sara S. Skillen
Brain Healing and Trauma
Summary
Approximately 50 percent of the population will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lives. While reactions to trauma can vary widely, and not everyone will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma can change the brain in ways that everyone should be aware of, especially if you or someone close to you is struggling to cope after trauma. With increased awareness, you can seek treatment to address your symptoms and learn skills that could actually rewire your brain for recovery. Additionally, knowing what’s going on can be immensely helpful because it may help you realize that you’re not "crazy", irreversibly damaged, or a bad person. Instead, you can think of a traumatized brain as one that functions differently as a result of traumatic events. And just as your brain changes in response to past experiences, it can also change in response to future experiences. In other words, the brain is “plastic", and you can change it. The depth or imaginal psychotherapy is highly effective in treating and assessing adult survivors of childhood abuse. Specifically, interventions that use dreams, symbols, and metaphor, as well as expressive art techniques, are deemed especially valuable as they address dissociative changes (affecting regulation, sense of self, and diminished imagination). Specifically, this book proposes that prominent symptoms of PTSD, such as changes in affect regulation, sense of self, and use of imagination, are better neurologically matched to therapeutic interventions that foster right-brain processes. An assessment tool, the Imaginal Sense of Self and Affect Test (which will be further referred to as the ISSA8 Test), has been developed, which evaluates the underlying intrapsychic changes causing these symptoms and gives an enhanced understanding of the trauma-afflicted client, despite her inability to express such insights. By assessing specific depth psychological aspects of the individual’s shattered sense of self, a more focused and efficient treatment plan can be created sooner in the course of therapy.
©2020 Brittany Forrester (P)2020 Brittany Forrester