LOS ANGELES — Sometimes the clues that something is holding a person back are found in what keeps happening: the same painful relationship dynamic, the same reaction to stress or the same behavior that produces an unwanted result. Yet recognizing a pattern can be difficult when it operates largely outside conscious awareness.
For psychotherapist Connie Jones, helping people identify those patterns has become an important part of her work. She says people often seek therapy after a crisis or when they notice a painful behavior that keeps repeating, creating an opportunity to examine the beliefs, experiences and nervous-system responses beneath it.
In her new book, Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery, she combines her own deeply personal journey of trauma survival with her clinical perspective to help readers understand the neurobiology of extreme stress while finding greater self-awareness, self-compassion and hope. Many of her patients, she says, have found that understanding their own responses helped liberate them from long-standing patterns.
Through the lens of nervous system science, Green Glitter Girl explores how trauma can reshape the body and why recovery is not simply a matter of “getting over” what happened. Instead, Jones examines the process of reclaiming a sense of safety, connection, voice and self.
In the foreword, Stephen Porges, Ph.D., creator of Polyvagal Theory, describes Green Glitter Girl as a story that illustrates the human nervous system’s capacity to adapt, survive and ultimately heal.
“I want to instill hope that, although readers may feel overwhelmed and stuck within their limited beliefs and self-sabotaging habits, they can be free from them,” Jones said.
Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery
Publisher: Torchflame Books
ISBN-13: 978-1611536102
Available from: https://www.amazon.com/Green-Glitter-Girl-Journey-Recovery/dp/1611536103
