Audiobooks by Jamie Marich

Trauma and the 12 Steps--The Workbook: Exercises and Meditations for Addiction, Trauma Recovery, and

"Your definitive trauma-sensitive guide to working the Steps: skills for understanding your addiction, processing your trauma, and navigating your recovery journey-the anticipated companion to Trauma and the 12 Steps. This addiction recovery workbook from clinicians Jamie Marich, PhD, and Stephen Dansiger offers skills to prevent relapse, enhance recovery, and understand how trauma impacts alcoholism, drug dependency, and even other types of addictions. Working the Steps for the first time can feel scary and unfamiliar-and depending upon the experiences you've had at AA or NA, you may question whether the 12 Steps are right for you. Here, Marich and Dansiger help you get to the root of your addiction while offering skills and exercises for an inclusive recovery program. Unlike some 12-Step programs, this workbook is open to all-regardless of your background, history, identity, or spiritual beliefs. It also recognizes that for most of us on recovery or sobriety journeys, each Step isn't made to be worked through only once: this workbook is designed to support your individual needs, whether that's practicing one step on a day-to-day basis, revisiting another at different times throughout your recovery process, or using the exercises as part of a yearly check-in. The workbook begins with a self-care inventory, then moves through each of the 12 steps with prompts, meditations, journaling reflections, and body-based exercises. The authors also offer coping skills and an open-minded approach that acknowledges that your recovery is as unique as you are: one-size-fits-all doesn't apply. Compassionate, trauma-responsive, and grounded in the latest behavioral and neuroscience research, this workbook is your go-to addiction recovery toolkit."

Jamie Marich, Stephen Dansiger (Author), Jamie Marich (Narrator)

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You Lied to Me About God: A Memoir

"'An intimate and important memoir of deconstructing and reconstructing faith after abuse ... a spiritual memoir that does not shy away from abuse, queerness, or the multifaceted character of God.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A courageous, vulnerable, and spellbinding memoir that explores with visceral impact what happens when harm starts at home-and is exalted as God's will For readers of Unfollow and Jesus Land: Jamie Marich explores spiritual abuse, intergenerational trauma, and weaponized faith At nine years old, Jamie Marich asked God to end it all. Doing it herself would be an irrevocable sin: an affront to the church and her father's God. She prayed instead for the rapture, an accident, a passive death-anything to stop the turmoil of feeling wrong: wrong in her body; wrong in her desires; wrong in her faith in a merciful God that could love her wholly as she was. You Lied to Me About God explores the schisms that erupt when faith is weaponized, when abuse collides with the push-and-pull of a mixed religious upbringing tyhat tells you: no matter which path you choose-no matter what you know in your heart to be true-you're probably damned. With resilience, strength, and gut-punching clarity, Marich takes readers through a tumultuous coming-of-age marked by addiction, escapism, spiritual manipulation, misogyny, and abuse. She shares with unflinching detail the complicity of her mother's silence and the lengths her father went to assert dominance and control over her body, her desires, her identity-and even her eternal soul-"for her own good" and with a side of televangelistic hellfire. Hitting a breaking point, Marich embarks on pilgrimage: from shrines in Croatia to ashrams in Florida, she reckons with what it means to come home to a faith that heals and accepts her wholly as she is: in her queerness, in her body, and in her deep relationship to an expansive and loving God."

Jamie Marich (Author), Jamie Marich (Narrator)

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The Dissociation Made Simple Flipchart -- Audio Resource: An Auditory Guide for Clinicians Working w

"An essential resource for psychologists, therapists, and clinicians to help clients understand dissociation, make sense of their parts, and visualize depersonalization and derealization-a stigma-free guide from the bestselling author of Dissociation Made Simple An interactive dry-erasable tool for use with clients with dissociative identity disorder (DID), complex trauma, PTSD, and dissociative disorders not otherwise specified (DDNOS) This easy-to-use, dry-erasable flip chart helps therapists break down the basics of dissociation: what it is, why it happens, and how it can be understood-and embraced-as a key part of your client's healing journey. The full-color Dissociation Made Simple Flipchart builds on Jamie Marich, PhD's, bestselling book and expands your clinical toolkit. Designed to be interactive and user-friendly in-session, it offers easy-to-understand definitions, unique client-centered exercises, flexible language options, and visual activity pages thoughtfully illustrated to meet the needs of clients with different learning styles. Use the Flipchart with clients to: - Understand-and go beyond-dissociation and trauma 101 - Show how trauma acts on the body and brain - Demystify terms like "parts," "system," and "alter" - Build their "safe-enough" harbor - Relate to real-life examples from people with dissociative experiences - Understand treatment options and different approaches to dissociative symptoms - Practice techniques for grounding, anchoring, settling, and mindfulness - Do interactive activities like mapping their parts - Challenge myths, biases, and stigma - Learn about their dissociative tendencies-and discover what helps them return to the present moment For use with clients with trauma-related dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, DDNOS, and more, the Flipchart is a compassionate and invaluable clinical resource that helps you explore complex concepts with ease-demystifying dissociation and providing a roadmap to understanding, agency, and empowerment."

Jamie Marich (Author), Jamie Marich (Narrator)

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Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Dai

"Dissociation 101: The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation. Guided by psychologist Jamie Marich--a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself--this book tells you everything you need to know about dissociation...but were too afraid to ask.     Here, you'll learn:   •  What dissociation is--and why it's a natural response to trauma   •  How to understand and work with your "parts"--the unique emotional and behavioral profiles that can develop from personality fragmentation   •  There's nothing shameful about dissociating--that, in fact, we can all dissociate   •  Skills and strategies for living your best, authentic, and most fulfilled life   •  What to look for in a therapist: choosing a healer who sees you and gets it   •  Foundational elements of healing from trauma, including PTSD and C-PTSD     With practical guided exercises like "The Dissociative Profile" and "Parts Mapping," this book is written for those diagnosed with dissociative disorders, clinicians and therapists who treat trauma and dissociation, and readers who are exploring whether they may have dissociative symptoms or a condition like dissociative identity disorder (DID). Dissociation Made Simple breaks it all down accessibly and comprehensively, with empowerment and support--and without stigma, judgment, or shame."

Jamie Marich (Author), Jamie Marich (Narrator)

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Transforming Trauma with Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide for Survivors, Therapists, and Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners t

"Heal from trauma and PTSD with the martial art of jiu-jitsu--written for survivors, mental health therapists, and trauma-informed martial arts instructors. This groundbreaking book introduces jiu-jitsu as a powerful embodied modality for trauma survivors in recovery, and includes 10 grounding practices, self-defense techniques, and 30 instructional photos.   Unhealed trauma--from "little t" traumas to complex PTSD--leaves a lasting imprint on the bodies and minds of survivors. And in the aftermath of trauma, many people experience shifts in how they feel, connect with others, and interact with the world at large. This embodied, whole-person approach will help you heal the wounds of traumatic stress and how it shows up within yourself and your relationships, from disembodiment and numbness to anger, fear, anxiety, confusion, and dissociation. As part of a martial arts trauma recovery program, you'll learn about:    • Trauma, embodiment, and the transformative power of jiu-jitsu    • Self-defense skills that can help survivors of violence define boundaries and feel safe, secure, powerful, and at home in their bodies     • Creating a welcoming, responsive practice space as a studio owner    • Integrating jiu-jitsu practice into a safe, accessible recovery protocol for survivors--and how therapists can recommend them to clients or build them into a treatment plan   Written for trauma survivors, mental health clinicians, and martial arts practitioners and studio owners who want to create a safe, empowering, and trauma-sensitive space, Transforming Trauma with Jiu-Jitsu is a unique and vital guide to healing trauma's invisible wounds."

Anna Pirkl, Jamie Marich (Author), Marissa Ghavami (Narrator)

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Trauma and the 12 Steps, Revised and Expanded: An Inclusive Guide to Enhancing Recovery

"An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you're powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped countless people on the path to recovery. But many still feel that 12-step programs aren't for them: that the spiritual emphasis is too narrow, the modality too old-school, the setting too triggering, or the space too exclusive. Some struggle with an addict label that can eclipse the histories, traumas, and experiences that feed into addiction, or dismisses the effects of adverse experiences like trauma in the first place. Advances in addiction medicine, trauma, neuropsychiatry, social theory, and overall strides in inclusivity need to be integrated into modern-day 12-step programs to reflect the latest research and what it means to live with an addiction today. Dr. Jamie Marich, an addiction and trauma clinician in recovery herself, builds necessary bridges between the 12-step's core foundations and up-to-date developments in trauma-informed care. Foregrounding the intersections of addiction, trauma, identity, and systems of oppression, Marich's approach treats the whole person--not just the addiction--to foster healing, transformation, and growth. Written for clinicians, therapists, sponsors, and those in recovery, Marich provides an extensive toolkit of trauma-informed skills that:   •  Explains how trauma impacts addiction, recovery, and relapse   •  Celebrates communities who may feel excluded from the program, like atheists, agnostics, and LGBTQ+ folks   •  Welcomes outside help from the fields of trauma, dissociation, mindfulness, and addiction research   •  Explains the differences between being trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive; and   •  Discusses spiritual abuse as a legitimate form of trauma that can profoundly impede spirituality-based approaches to healing."

Jamie Marich (Author), Marissa Ghavami (Narrator)

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