
Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong
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MaryCatherine McDonald PhD
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A profound new approach to healing trauma, grounded in a radical reframing of how we understand this nearly universal experience
For centuries, we’ve been taught that being traumatized means we are somehow broken—and that trauma only happens to people who are too fragile or flawed to deal with hardship. But as a researcher, teacher, and survivor, Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald has learned that the only thing broken is our society’s understanding of trauma. “The body’s trauma response is designed to save our lives—and it does,” she says. “It’s not a sign of weakness, but of our function, strength, and amazing resilience.”
With Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong, Dr. McDonald overturns the misconceptions about trauma with the latest evidence from neuroscience and psychology—and shares tested practices and tools to help you work with your body’s coping mechanisms to accelerate healing. Here, you’ll explore:
• What is trauma? The latest science that undoes the stigmas of shame, blame, and humiliation
• Moral injury—having our basic sense of how the world should work overturned
• The truth about triggers—what they really are and how they can guide the healing journey
• Traumatic patterns—new findings to help break free from recurring habits and toxic dynamics
• Why we can always rewrite our inner narratives, no matter how much time has passed
• Finding a “relational home” for trauma—how we can help each other return to wholeness
Dr. McDonald’s case studies reveal the many ways trauma can manifest and persist in our lives, yet there’s one factor every case has in common: the trauma response itself reveals the path to healing. “Our traumatic experiences reveal that we can be bent, dented, or bruised,” she says, “but we cannot be broken.” For anyone who has gone through trauma or wants to help others who are struggling, here is an empowering resource for finding our way home to our bodies, rebuilding our relationships, and returning to full engagement with life.
©2023 MaryCatherine McDonald, PhD (P)2023 Sounds TrueListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“Equal parts memoir, client stories, and neuroscience, Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong will radically reframe everything you’ve ever thought about trauma and how to heal from it. No more feelings of shame. Just newfound empowerment.”—Mark Epstein, MD, author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and The Zen of Therapy
“We all experience trauma. And it leaves scars for most of us. We can learn to better handle it using Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald’s fresh, positive, and scientifically rigorous approach. Her toolbox full of practical, down-to-earth advice and methods enables us to lift the burdens of shame, guilt, and fear that we all shoulder when we suffer from trauma. Unbroken is essential to showing us how we can become empowered, moving beyond the trauma in our past.”—Allan Hamilton, MD, author of The Scalpel and the Soul and the forthcoming Cerebral Entanglements
“I call MaryCatherine the Brené Brown of trauma. She normalizes trauma and helps us get rid of shame so that we can accept our stories fully and embrace our humanness—something that we need now in the world more than ever.”—John Kim, aka The Angry Therapist
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Great content, audio not for the neurodiverse
- By Danielle A on 01-30-23
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The Untethered Soul Lecture Series Collection, Volumes 1-4
- By: Michael A. Singer
- Narrated by: Michael A. Singer
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Michael A. Singer’s spiritual classic The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself gave us a lucid and practical guide to living an awakened life. Now, for those inspired by his books or new to his teachings, The Untethered Soul Lecture Series Collection, Volumes 1-4 brings you into the company of this beloved teacher as he suffuses new illumination into the life-changing insights shared in his written works.
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One size doesn't fit all
- By Bill on 04-13-21
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Transcending Trauma
- Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems Therapy
- By: Frank G. Anderson
- Narrated by: Brian Arens
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma. The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative audiobook, Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing — called self-energy — while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.
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Highly Recommend
- By Summer Peterson on 02-28-22
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You Will Find Your People
- By: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Like many people navigating adulthood, Lane Moore thought she would have friends by now. Movies, books, and TV shows tell us we should’ve already found our people by the time we’re adults, or there must be something wrong with us. But where do you find these close friends once you’ve left high school or college? Is it even possible? You Will Find Your People is the groundbreaking guide to making—and keeping—the friends we’ve all been desperately waiting for.
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Cringy
- By Rachel on 07-06-23
By: Lane Moore
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Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
- A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
- By: Janina Fisher
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that retelling the story of what happened would resolve these effects. However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma.
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An absolute must for your library!
- By Becky on 10-16-22
By: Janina Fisher
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In an Unspoken Voice
- How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
- By: Peter A. Levine, Gabor Maté - foreword M.D.
- Narrated by: Ed Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In an Unspoken Voice is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions.
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Ed Nash shouldn't be reading audio books
- By Zozz on 10-25-17
By: Peter A. Levine, and others
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Will the Drama Ever End?
- Untangling and Healing from the Harmful Effects of Parental Narcissism
- By: Dr. Karyl McBride Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Dr. Karyl McBride Ph.D.
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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A pioneer on the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse, Karyl McBride, PhD, has the answer for anyone desperate for help in overcoming the damage of being raised in a family headed by a narcissistic parent. Divided into three sections, McBride explores the insidious way a narcissistic environment is developed in a family, how a narcissistic parent damages a child’s emotional growth and ability to trust, and finally, how to not only move on but become truly free.
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Great book but worksheet?
- By Amazon Customer on 05-02-23
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If Women Rose Rooted
- A Life Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
- By: Sharon Blackie
- Narrated by: Sharon Blackie
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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In this life-changing book that blends myth, memoir, and modern-day mentors, renowned psychologist Dr. Sharon Blackie journeys from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection.
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Gorgeously written
- By Trine C. Jensen on 09-18-23
By: Sharon Blackie
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The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma
- Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma
- By: Laurence Heller Ph.D., Brad J. Kammer LMFT
- Narrated by: Laurence S. Heller, Brad J. Kammer LMFT
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an integrated mind-body framework that focuses on relational, attachment, developmental, cultural, and intergenerational trauma. NARM helps clients resolve C-PTSD, recover from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and facilitate post-traumatic growth.
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Not a "practical guide" for dealing with CPTSD
- By JBC on 12-27-22
By: Laurence Heller Ph.D., and others
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Embracing Shame
- How to Stop Resisting Shame and Turn It into a Powerful Ally
- By: Bret Lyon PhD SEP, Sheila Rubin MA LMFT RDT/BCT
- Narrated by: Carla Emmons
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Discover a proven pathway for transforming shame from a self-punishing emotion into a powerful ally for your health and happiness.
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Get this audiobook
- By Bay Area on 10-24-23
By: Bret Lyon PhD SEP, and others
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The Reclaimed Woman
- Love Your Shadow, Embody Your Feminine Gifts, Experience the Specific Pleasures of Who You Are
- By: Kelly Brogan MD
- Narrated by: Kelly Brogan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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New York Times bestselling author and published natural health reclamation advocate Kelly Brogan MD is back to push the envelope of discourse on self-ownership, authenticity, and sovereignty. This time, she has a message for all women: you deserve to feel alive. Showcasing the reasons modern women are living hollow, unfulfilling, overwhelming, and complaint-filled lives, The Reclaimed Women resolves the gaslight that says, we should be enjoying the freedom hard-wrought by feminism, sexual liberation, and medication.
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YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK, NOW!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 04-18-25
By: Kelly Brogan MD
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Re-Regulated
- Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck
- By: Anna Runkle
- Narrated by: Anna Runkle
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Conventional trauma treatments (talk therapy and medication) simply don't work for many trauma survivors, and now we know why. Researchers have identified the core symptom that drives most other symptoms—neurological dysregulation. It's an injury to your nervous system triggered by abuse and neglect in childhood, and it can profoundly impact your physical health, damage your ability to learn and focus, and hold you back from forming caring relationships. The good news is that healing is possible, and in Re-Regulated, author Anna Runkle (aka the Crappy Childhood Fairy) shows you how.
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Re-Regulated, help for humanity
- By Ali ReauVeau on 10-16-24
By: Anna Runkle
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Bow Down
- Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want
- By: Lindsay Goldwert
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Linsday Goldwert - introduction
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Imagine a world where the usual power dynamic is turned on its head. Where women not only stop apologizing, but seize - and enjoy - control. This is the quickly-mainstreaming world of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) - and it has a lot to teach women about empowerment, negotiation, open-mindedness, and more. Popular podcaster and personal finance expert Lindsay Goldwert has traveled across the United States to meet the stars of the subculture. In Bow Down, these Alpha women show how you can reset the power dynamic in any situation to get what you want.
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Not a book on the BDSM lifestyle
- By Gary Haddock on 06-03-21
By: Lindsay Goldwert
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How to Listen
- Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication
- By: Oscar Trimboli
- Narrated by: Oscar Trimboli
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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At a time when we are more technologically linked than ever, our conversations have never been more distracted and disconnected—because most don’t know how to truly listen. The result? You constantly fight to be “heard” over all the noise and distraction. In How to Listen, Oscar Trimboli, host of the Apple-award-winning podcast Deep Listening, shows you how to unlock your listening superpowers. Trimboli shares practical and pragmatic insights to help you notice when you aren’t listening—and what to do about it.
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A transformative journey
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-22
By: Oscar Trimboli
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Healing Trauma
- Restoring the Wisdom of the Body
- By: Peter A. Levine
- Narrated by: Peter A. Levine
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain? If so, you may be suffering a traumatic reaction to a past event, teaches Levine.
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Somewhat misleading. Unfortunately.
- By Gwendolyn on 11-30-10
By: Peter A. Levine
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- Scott Summers
- 05-18-23
A Quake Book! Shakes you @ The Core!
I’ve listened to this book twice already so much great content & take aways! Fairly short by audible standards & jam packed with knowledge & exercises that are helpful. Sheds so much light & hope! Well worth the investment of time & our healing processes.
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- Tony Gonzalez
- 07-15-24
Healing
This book was really riveting and empowering in helping navigate trauma. A sincere and honest approach that the author takes to empower the reader through trauma and life’s toughest moments.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-11-23
Excellent
Excellent. A needed focus on the strength and survival-oriented nature of the body’s response to trauma. Really helpful..Hopeful.
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- hellofrommt
- 10-12-23
I finally found a relational home
I loved every part of this book! My favorite is that my trauma response is a sign of strength and not weakness.
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- Shawn Nelson
- 05-24-24
Unbelievably Impactful
This is one of the best books on trauma I have ever read. The compassion and empathy that the author has for people suffering from unhealed trauma is communicated in every word she speaks. Could not recommend this incredible book more
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- kwilson
- 03-31-23
Great Practices
I must confess I did not have the patients to set through all the stories, but I loved the end-of-chapter exercises.
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- Aubri
- 04-18-23
Kindred Spirits 💕
This book came highly recommended by my therapist of 3 years❤️
She couldn't help but say I came to her mind often as she read it and recommended we use it as a guide through the next steps of my therapy!
I especially appreciated the history and evolution of mental health. It helped to open my eyes to generational perspectives on the controversial topic and shine empathy of those it related to in my heart and family.
I can't help but think how many other wonderful humans this book is going to help comfort and guide through the life changing impact of the trauma they endured . You are very much so your fathers daughter ❤️
I have finished the audio but plan to journal and move through the exercises with my therapist.
Thank you for bringing this book in the 🌎!
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- Em4112
- 03-27-23
Brave, insightful, and helpful
I didn’t expect a book on trauma to trigger so much hope. "Unbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong" is a well-written primer on trauma that is a quicker, easier to read than "The Body Keeps the Score" with equally useful content. She distills how the brain processes trauma in a brief but understandable couple pages, explains the impacts of trauma, and provides practical tools for coping with and healing trauma. I finished the book feeling stunned and uplifted by the author’s insight and bravery. A must read for everyone.
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- Amy Hooper
- 08-12-23
Phenomenal Read
I now have more profound insight on what trauma is and how it affects us. I don't feel so fearful and now have hope that I can heal. The author explained everything thoroughly and the exercises were incredibly helpful. I recommend this book to anyone suffering from trauma and PTSD. It will give you a better understanding of trauma, triggers, and the hope that you can heal and that you aren't alone in your battle. Thank you so much!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-20-24
Toggle off the traumatic response
The author defined Trauma as: unbearable emotional experience that lacks a relational home.
I loved what she wrote about providing a relational home for yourself and others to help process the traumatic memories.
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“We cannot predict what will happen, while we simultaneously must predict what will happen in order to function.” In order to live, we must come to grips with the fact that this means we will be vulnerable.
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