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# Comprehensive trauma recovery guide Practical, user-friendly tools Clear recovery roadmap Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

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## Summary

> 🛤️ From Surviving to Thriving: Your Essential Map to Healing Childhood Trauma

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## Key Features

- • **Inclusive & Accessible:** Screen reading supported and jargon-free for easy understanding and broad accessibility.
- • **Support for Loved Ones:** Empowers not just survivors but also those who want to help them thrive.
- • **Step-by-Step Recovery Map:** Navigate your healing journey with a clear, linear progression framework.
- • **Emotional Flashback Management:** Learn to identify, understand, and reduce the impact of emotional flashbacks.
- • **Transformative Healing Insights:** Written by a survivor, for survivors—real, raw, and relatable guidance.

## Overview

This deeply insightful and practical self-help e-book offers a survivor’s perspective on Complex PTSD recovery, featuring a clear roadmap, emotional flashback management techniques, and compassionate guidance. It’s designed for both those healing from childhood trauma and their support networks, with accessible language and screen reader compatibility, making it a must-have resource for anyone seeking to transform pain into empowerment.

## Description

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd. I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy…or alone! The causes of Cptsd range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes – in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body. This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life. It is copiously illustrated with examples of my own and my clients’ journeys of recovering. This book is also for those who do not have Cptsd but want to understand and help a loved one who does. This book also contains an overview of the tasks of recovering and a great many practical tools and techniques for recovering from childhood trauma. It extensively elaborates on all the recovery concepts explained on my website, and many more. However, unlike the articles on my website, it is oriented toward the layperson. As such, much of the psychological jargon and dense concentration of concepts in the website articles has been replaced with expanded and easier to follow explanations. Moreover, many principles that were only sketched out in the articles are explained in much greater detail. A great deal of new material is also explored. Key concepts of the book include managing emotional flashbacks, understanding the four different types of trauma survivors, differentiating the outer critic from the inner critic, healing the abandonment depression that come from emotional abandonment and self-abandonment, self-reparenting and reparenting by committee, and deconstructing the hierarchy of self-injuring responses that childhood trauma forces survivors to adopt. The book also functions as a map to help you understand the somewhat linear progression of recovery, to help you identify what you have already accomplished, and to help you figure out what is best to work on and prioritize now. This in turn also serves to help you identify the signs of your recovery and to develop reasonable expectations about the rate of your recovery. I hope this map will guide you to heal in a way that helps you to become an unflinching source of kindness and self-compassion for yourself, and that out of that journey you will find at least one other human being who will reciprocally love you well enough in that way.

Review: Brilliant book - This book is a revelation and I’m so glad to have seen it recommended by another author. I honestly think its life changing; full of revelations, insight and practical steps to help you find your way back to your true self. Thank you Pete.
Review: Profoundly useful - I cannot tell you how important this book is to me. I'd heard it recommended and stuck it onto my Kindle not expecting much after it came up as a 'recommended for you' pick. So it popped up as a 'new' read on a day when I was feeling absolutely dreadful emotionally and almost instantly it started to describe the feelings I've had for years that never quite fitted a diagnosis of depression or anxiety solely. I felt such a sense of relief having my life so accurately represented for once! I found the writing style a bit jarring to begin with as to me it needed a good editor and fewer invented sounding words, but the more I read I started to like the slightly unpolished genuine style written by someone who has really been there and knows how you are feeling. It felt kind and reassuring which is exactly what I needed from a book like this that really challenged and pushed me emotionally. I know the book has helped me hugely because it's given me words to describe my feelings after being speechless for 35 years. I now have little guidepoints to look out for around flashbacks and while I haven't stopped having them yet, they've been less frequent, less severe and more manageable because I understand them. I know I will read this book again to build on that and to take in what I missed first time round since there's a lot of info in there. If you've ever felt utterly bleak but like it doesn't fit the symptoms of depression properly, I urge you to read this book. And if you read your reviews Pete Walker, thank you so much for giving me a way to express myself and stop blaming myself. I cannot tell you what that means to me.

## Features

- Screen Reading Supported

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 24,522 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) 84 in Health, Family & Lifestyle Self Help 260 in Health & Fitness (Kindle Store) 445 in Self-Help & Counselling |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant book
*by B***M on 28 December 2025*

This book is a revelation and I’m so glad to have seen it recommended by another author. I honestly think its life changing; full of revelations, insight and practical steps to help you find your way back to your true self. Thank you Pete.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Profoundly useful
*by G***L on 23 April 2016*

I cannot tell you how important this book is to me. I'd heard it recommended and stuck it onto my Kindle not expecting much after it came up as a 'recommended for you' pick. So it popped up as a 'new' read on a day when I was feeling absolutely dreadful emotionally and almost instantly it started to describe the feelings I've had for years that never quite fitted a diagnosis of depression or anxiety solely. I felt such a sense of relief having my life so accurately represented for once! I found the writing style a bit jarring to begin with as to me it needed a good editor and fewer invented sounding words, but the more I read I started to like the slightly unpolished genuine style written by someone who has really been there and knows how you are feeling. It felt kind and reassuring which is exactly what I needed from a book like this that really challenged and pushed me emotionally. I know the book has helped me hugely because it's given me words to describe my feelings after being speechless for 35 years. I now have little guidepoints to look out for around flashbacks and while I haven't stopped having them yet, they've been less frequent, less severe and more manageable because I understand them. I know I will read this book again to build on that and to take in what I missed first time round since there's a lot of info in there. If you've ever felt utterly bleak but like it doesn't fit the symptoms of depression properly, I urge you to read this book. And if you read your reviews Pete Walker, thank you so much for giving me a way to express myself and stop blaming myself. I cannot tell you what that means to me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 10 years of therapy in a book that takes 2 days to read
*by E***E on 26 June 2020*

I have been struggling my whole life with life itself. At 36 and 5 years into therapy, I was still so far from functional and had so many physical problems too. Ever since my teens I have been unable to keep up with the rest of the world, suffering from lethargy and even narcolepsy. I have had an extreme pain in my neck that I have spent thousands on osteopaths for with no success and which would trigger up to 20 migraines a month. I have been depressed ever since I can remember, horrifically messy, and overweight from eating nothing but carbs. I have been in a string of bad relationships with narcissistic or highly damaged people. I had to quit university because I would fall asleep in EVERY class. And that is just some of my problems. Over the years I have worked so hard on myself, succeeding in stopping biting my nails (which I used to bite until they bled. My fingers looked like stumps) but would still fall back into it regularly. And that was pretty much the only tangible thing I had really achieved in the self improvement catalogue. Just a few weeks ago I was crying to my therapist that I only feel like I am running at 20% of my potential. This winter when my cat died, I hit a new low and slipped back into deep depression, smoking weed from morning til dusk, watching Netflix from morning til midnight, and eating nothing but takeaways. My flat was slowly turning into a garbage dump of empty containers. About a month ago, one of my twitter followers bought me this book from my wishlist (god even knows how it ended up on there. I have no recollection of adding it). I left it on my coffee table untouched. When I hit an all time low about 2 weeks ago, said follower messaged me to tell me to pick it up and read it. I was sitting on my kitchen floor, sobbing loudly, feeling like I hadn't advanced at all since my 20's. I started reading it and turned to the 13 steps for dealing with an emotional flashback, even though I had no idea what that is. But I was emotional so I figured it could help maybe. It instantly calmed me down. I then curled up on my sofa and proceeded to read the entire book over 2 days. After reading it, I felt like a weight had been lifted. It was like all the puzzle pieces I had been given in therapy over the years but didn't know what to do with or how to use now we're fitting neatly together. The next day, I was like a new person. It was unbelievable. The weight was gone. The tiredness was gone. The craving for carbs was gone. I suddenly found myself having a morning and an evening routine including brushing my teeth (something I have always struggled with), meditation, diary writing, physical self care... I have had the best 2 weeks of my life. I finally truly love myself and enjoy cleaning up after myself and cooking myself incredibly healthy meals!!! I am productive and living full days to the maximum every day! I have totally stopped watching TV and am on my 4th book in 2 weeks! I am gardening, weeding, making art!!!! Life is finally beautiful. And the best part? I am now daily in contact with my child part whom I tell how much I love all the time and even read a bedtime story to. My poor child part who was locked in the knot in my neck and suffering so much as I was trying to evict her. The pain in my neck and the knot are totally gone and instead I have a sweet little companion who is helping me rediscover the joy in life. Pete Walker, you have changed my life. I have since recommended this book to dozens of friends who I know had awful childhoods too and many have picked it up. Each one who does messages me to tell me how much they recognise themselves in the book and I can't wait for all of them to finish it too and find themselves finally living life to the fullest. I messaged the woman who bought me the book to tell her it was the single greatest gift anyone had ever given me. Give yourself the gift of a life lived to the fullest. Give yourself the gift of finally healing those wounds that hurt so much and make every day a struggle. You deserve it. And you deserve to love yourself and be loved.

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