On today's episode of Beat Your Addictions we interview author Mary Giuliani about the process of healing from trauma. About Mary - Mary Giuliani is a Master Certified Coach, keynote speaker, and author of "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD." As a complex trauma recovery coach, she supports survivors in healing from complex trauma and achieving long-term recovery with food, weight, drugs, alcohol, and relationships, resulting in them turning their pain into power and purpose. About Her New Book - Mary's new book is a blending of memoir, science-based research, and a practical Complex Trauma workbook & Addiction Recovery Healing Guide. In it, Mary shares her story that in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving her struggle with relationships, health, and work, and her past struggle with alcohol, drugs, food, and severe obesity was a condition known as Complex PTSD, a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home. This discovery sent her on a five-year journey where she researched leading experts in the fields of C-PTSD, neuroscience, developmental psychology, adverse childhood experiences, and addiction medicine to find the most effective treatments for optimal healing. As she embarks on her trauma-healing journey, she shares experiencing one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learned C-PTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, recovery, relationships, career, and health. She then shares what she did to heal and how discovering and healing her trauma marked the single most transformative turning point in her life. She also provides access to all she's learned through a compassionate, step-by-step C-PTSD workbook and Addiction Recovery Guide so her readers can embark on their own trauma healing and recovery journey. 3 Tips or Takeaways: 1. Your Struggle With Food, Weight, or Substances Is Not Your Fault It's A Normal Response To Surviving An Abnormal Childhood 2. You're not alone; you're not bad or defective, and what happened and how you coped is not your fault 3. Your symptoms are normal, and by accessing the right trauma-based body, brain, and mind therapies, you can heal. Contact information: Amazon Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/Its-About-Food-Drugs-Alcohol/dp/B0BS5PBW7D/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2AV5F22C8I4YM&keywords=mary+giuliani&qid=1675623263&sprefix=mary+giuliani%2Caps%2C231&sr=8-6 Website https://marygiuliani.net/ Newsletter Sign Up https://marygiuliani.net/free-newsletter/ Social Media https://www.facebook.com/Marygcoachhttps://www.youtube.com/@MaryGiulianihttps://www.instagram.com/Mary.Giuliani/https://www.linkedin.com/in/MaryGiulianihttps://twitter.com/MaryMGiuliani