Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey. Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. Having studied brain-based and body-based approaches to wellbeing, Dr. Christy Gibson teaches readers how to embrace their innate power and catalyze community wisdom. Drawing on her work with people suffering from stress and societal challenges, Dr. Gibson shares practical and effective mental health advice you can personalize. In clear and accessible language, The Modern Trauma Toolkit describes new theories in brain biology, such as the polyvagal theory and epigenetics, and explains how you can remodel your brain to achieve post-traumatic growth. While noting how particular communities face inequitable stressors, she empowers readers to identify and harness their unique and cultural strengths. Dr. Gibson shares over forty activities that can be self-taught and practiced so you can begin your healing journey today, including:  Iffirmations : Reimagine affirmations to plant seeds of possibility - The Container : Create your box of shame and leave it behind - Havening : Discover the body's three areas that are best suited to self-soothing - Solutions Studio : Catalyze change at the systems level using design thinking “Dr. Gibson’s gem of a book is a succinct and penetrating primer on trauma and approaches to its treatment.”― Gabor Maté, MD , author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture “This is the book for anyone who is committed to the healing path—focusing on resilience, self-compassion and what is good and right within us all.”― Lissa Rankin, MD , author of Mind Over Medicine Mind and Sacred Medicine " The Modern Trauma Toolkit is a comprehensive collection of exercises that will enable the reader to experience the often forgotten universal wisdom that healing is dependent on feeling safe enough to invite our nervous system to be a collaborator on our personal journey to health."― Stephen W. Porges, PhD , author of Polyvagal Safety, founding director, Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington, professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “ The Modern Trauma Toolkit is the most compassionate, welcoming, and practical book on trauma recovery that I have seen. It is now my first recommendation to many who have suffered trauma.” ― Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv , psychiatrist physician, faculty of Harvard Medical School, Medical Director of McLean SE Adult Psychiatry Community Affairs at McLean Hospital, and Chief of Behavioral Medicine at Good Samaritan Medical Center, author of Cured “Dr. Christy Gibson's compassionate, wise voice is one you want whispering in your ear as you work towards the life you deserve. Accessible, actionable, inclusive, comforting and hopeful. A practical, inspired and deeply intuitive contribution to a critical field."― Jillian Horton, MD , internal medicine physician, associate chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director at the Alan Klass Medical Humanities Program at the Max Rady College of Medicine, author of We Are All Perfectly Fine “In The Modern Trauma Toolkit , Dr. Christine Gibson invites the reader into a courageous exploration of what it means to be human, to survive painful things, as well as the impact of collective trauma. She teaches easily accessible and powerful healing tools that galvanize the journey toward post-traumatic growth. Her presence and care is tangible within each page of the book. Every step of the way, one can feel her presence as both a loving, wise guide and a compassionate, supportive cheerleader. This beautifully written book is sure to become a staple for healing practitioners and survivors alike.”― Kate Truitt, PhD, MBA , CEO of the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles, founder of the Amy Research Foundation, developer of the Havening Techniques, author of Healing In Your Hands “Trauma is a root cause of so much poor health across age groups and demographics. In her book The Modern Trauma Toolkit  Dr. Gibson makes what we know about trauma, its impacts and how to address it accessible for everyone. This book is a must read for clinicians and individuals looking for individualized tools to help them process their own experiences in a safe and approachable way.” ― Katharine Smart, MD , pediatric emergency medicine physician, past president of Canadian Medical Association “ Modern Trauma is easily one of the most readable and balanced trauma books on the market. It’s equipped with psychoeducation, case studies and coping tools within the chapters to allow readers to not only make sense of some of the symptoms they may be experiencing, but also practice coping. This is one of few trauma books that is culturally