Gifts from a Challenging Childhood Workbook: Your Companion Guide for Healing the Legacy of Childhood Trauma

Deepen the Work. Transform Your Story.Gifts from a Challenging Childhood Workbook, Your Companion Guide for Healing the Legacy of Childhood Trauma, is a companion workbook designed to bring the book's concepts into lived experience. While the book offers insight and understanding, this workbook provides a structured, step-by-step path to help you actively engage with your story in a meaningful and lasting way.Grounded in the Healing Our Core Issues (HOCI) Model, this companion guide gently leads you through exercises that explore how developmental and relational experiences shape your sense of self, your relationships, and your emotional life.Each section is thoughtfully designed to help you build awareness, strengthen your Functional Adult Self, and begin relating to your historical parts with greater compassion, clarity, and balance.Rather than rushing the process, the workbook invites you to slow down, reflect, and integrate—meeting yourself exactly where you are. Whether used on your own or alongside a therapist, it offers a supportive framework for uncovering patterns, understanding core issues, and practicing new ways of being.This workbook is not just about insight—it is about transformation. It is a place to do the work, to reconnect with yourself, and to begin rewriting your story with wisdom, strength, and self-compassion.Editorial ReviewsJan Bergstrom gracefully blends mindfulness, somatic therapy, positive psychology and inner child work to create a warm, compassionate workbook that supports trauma survivors to become agents in their own healing process. Beautifully written and is a much-needed resource.— Janina Fisher, author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma.“This companion workbook offers a compassionate, structured way to turn insight into healing. Jan Bergstrom thoughtfully guides readers in understanding and addressing the lasting effects of childhood trauma, helping them build awareness, regulation, and a stronger sense of self.”— Jonice Webb, author of “Running on Empty” and “Empty No More” Read more