What if there were a way to no longer feel trapped by your past traumas? What if you could finally take back control and discover joy and peace?In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety and Depression: A Journey To Finding Your New Your New Normal, J L Martin candidly details her lifelong journey as both a witness to and a victim of these challenges, revealing how - against all odds - she got back in the driver's seat.A storyteller at heart, Joanne illustrates her experience growing up in a dysfunctional home, escaping an abusive defacto, being a foster parent to emotionally abused and neglected children and then engaging in a career advocating for abused children in the Child Protection system (during which she unexpectedly succumbed to her own mental health battle).Through stories both heartbreaking and triumphant as well as dozens of proven tips and strategies, she shares the path to a new, glimmering day-to-day reality.In this book, you'll discover how to: Effectively involve family and friends in your recovery.Identify and remove toxic relationships from your life?permanently.Incorporate proven tools to enhance your mind, body and spirit - even when you don't want to get out of bed.If you are ready to put your fears in the backseat and again be the driver of your own destiny, this book is for you.
Author Biography
Holding an Associate Diploma in Welfare, she worked as a senior crisis worker in Child Protection for over 20 years before suffering an assault that ended her career in 2010. After struggling with PSTD, anxiety and depression she discovered writing and wrote the first book in The Golden Glow Chronicles on 12th December 2015 resulting in series like no other.Joanne is married with three adult daughters and three grandchildren who spend time with her on her rural property at the foothills of the Baw Baw ranges in Gippsland, Australia. These days, Elizabeth is many things: mom of 5 (including a set of twins), friend, lunch maker, chauffeur, hostage negotiator, author, on-call plumber, tile layer, guitar student, window washer, product designer, and on and on. She is the author of Holy Sh*t...I'm Having Twins! The Definitive Guide to Remaining Calm When You're Twice as Freaked Out and Ready or Not...There We Go: The REAL Experts' Guide to the Toddler Years with Twins---humorous, solutions-packed, tell-it-like-it-is guides to the first year and toddler years with twins. She is also the author of You Cannot Be Serious: and 32 Other Rules that Sustain a (Mostly) Balanced Mom.She demands the right to do things her way--a way that often defies even the most creative imaginations--and she strives to inspire others to do things their way (once they figure out what their way is!).Elizabeth lives in Arizona with her five kids, two dogs, two fish, four barely surviving organic gardens, and whatever (or whomever) else has taken up residence with them in the last five minutes.
