ABSTRACT
Tough times are introduced as something everyone experiences. No one can change what happened; however, children and caregivers can help each other to reduce the distressing power of traumatic memories and help free themselves from reliving past traumas in their bodies, minds, and interactional behaviors (Action Cycles). The workbook structure counters expectations and messages that children or caregivers should have been able to do better in the past to overcome hardships, to ‘put the past behind them,’ or that they have failed, hurt other people, and therefore defined themselves forever as bad, mentally ill, or dangerous. Chapter 10 invites children and caregivers to work together to grow stronger than the traumas that afflicted parts of their lives.
