No Sticks or Stones No Broken Bones: Healing cPTSD when the Trauma wasn't Physical It was naCCT: non-physically assaultive, attachment-based Chronic Covert Trauma

When you show up for yourself and
take loving, effective action, you can follow your bliss and realize your
dreams.

 With no tangible trauma to point to, confusion is normal for adults who’ve been wounded by these early non-physical traumas; many even deny they’ve been traumatized.  

Yet, realistically, when we’re
little, subtle everyday disturbances in our lifeline relationships with mother,
father, or other important caregivers can register on our bodies, minds, and
spirits as threats to life itself. In a word, as ‘trauma.’” 

If you’ve been baffled
by the sufferings caused by this silent trauma, you now have a healing guidebook
written just for you.  

Maybe you experienced
naCCTs such as: 

• Emotional, social, and/or
  psychological neglect. 
• Gaslighting and reality
  twisting, 
• “No Hugs, No Cuddles”
  Trauma,  
• Traumatic absence of loving
  guidance, interest, or understanding, 
• Physically present, (even
  over-involved, over-controlling, and intrusive), but psychologically
  unattuned (“helicopter”) parenting, 
• Being used as a parent to
  your own parent, a trophy child, or a “stand-in spouse,” or even 
• Hidden hostilities. 

 The trauma category of
Non-physically-assaultive, attachment-based Chronic Covert Trauma
(naCCT) poses unique challenges because of its subtle insidious nature.

 Whether or not your
caregiver was concerned and well-intentioned, whether or not you also
experienced blatant physical assaults like beatings or
incest, the overall effect of
these intangible early naCCTs can cause complex PTSD, leaving you as an adult
to cope struggling with physical, psychological, financial, and
relationship problems and overall lack of fun, spontaneity, and meaning. 

In this life-changing book
devoted to healing the hidden wounds from these early traumas, author Ricia Fleming, therapist and naCCT survivor herself, will:

• reassure you that your
  troubles and stuckness make sense;  
• validate that your
  challenges are mountains, not molehills; and 
• guide you to replace
  frustration, confusion, and resignation with a new level of empowerment and self-cherishing that you can tap into 24/7. 

To help you start healing today, “No Sticks
or Stones No Broken Bones” will give you:

• Down-to-earth survivor
  stories you can relate to,  
• Strategies for identifying,
  handling, and de-activating subtle People-Triggers, painful Body-State
  Triggers,  and hard-to-recognize naCCT flashbacks, 
• Practical guidance and
  non-pathologizing support grounded in neurobiological trauma research,
  and 
• A toolkit of empowering information,
  actionable strategies, checklists, exercises, and self-talk scripts 

It will help you take pride in how well you have
managed so far. Then it will provide you with action steps for starting to feel
better right away.