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    The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors
    The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors
    The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors
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    The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors

    By Desiree Leigh Thompson BSN RN MSN

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    The Worthy Woman Workbook: Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors is an interactive book that explains why healing from trauma is important to increasing self-worth. The Worthy Woman Workbook came about after publishing Healing Worthlessness: Coming into Self-Love as a Trauma Survivor, a courageous book about trauma and recovery where Desiree Leigh Thompson shares her story in detail about developmental and sexual trauma in hopes of helping other survivors find their own healing paths.

    The Worthy Woman Workbook analyzes several concepts for healing that were shared in Healing Worthlessness. Thus, The Worthy Woman Workbook, is an educational tool that is self-reflective, thought provoking, and engaging so that the reader can gain insight into their own patterns of thought, emotions, and behaviors that are keeping them stuck in unhealthy habits and coping strategies. The workbook explains the fundamentals of trauma, the underpinnings of worthiness, the seven steps to building lasting self-worth with insightful questions, activities, and inspiration that lead to a more intentional and fulfilling life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJul 6, 2022
    ISBN9798765230602
    The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors
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    Desiree Leigh Thompson BSN RN MSN

    Desiree Leigh Thompson, BSN, MSN is an author, coach, mentor, and the CEO of Desiree Leigh Coaching, a Personal Leadership and Lifestyle Redesign Coaching and Woman's Wellness Educational Company. Her vision is to coach and educate women survivors of developmental and sexual trauma to liberate themselves and take back ownership to improve the quality of their lives.

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      Book preview

      The Worthy Woman Workbook - Desiree Leigh Thompson BSN RN MSN

      Copyright © 2022 Desiree Leigh Thompson, BSN, RN, MSN.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Balboa Press

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      Bloomington, IN 47403

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      ISBN: 979-8-7652-3059-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 979-8-7652-3060-2 (e)

      Balboa Press rev. date: 06/29/2022

      Contents

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Why I Needed to Heal, and You Can Too

      Introduction

      SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS

      Chapter 1 Before You Begin

      Chapter 2 About Trauma

      SECTION II: THE FOUNDATION

      Chapter 3 The Underpinning of Worthiness

      Chapter 4 What is Self-Worth?

      SECTION III: PREPARATION

      Chapter 5 Words of Encouragement

      Chapter 6 How the Change Process Works

      Chapter 7 Escaping Pain Does Not Heal

      SECTION IV: 7 STEPS TO FEELING WORTHY

      Step 1 Creating Awareness About Your State

      Step 2 Getting Vulnerable to Heal

      Step 3 How to Trust Yourself

      Step 4 Self-Reflective Writing for Self-Discovery

      Step 5 Understanding Self-Compassion

      Step 6 Acknowledge that You are Courageous

      Step 7 Deep Work is Needed to Experience Lasting Self-Love

      SECTION V: FINAL WORDS

      Chapter 8 Are You Worth the Time?

      Connect with Desiree

      Bibliography

      Dedication

      The Worthy Woman Workbook: How to Build Lasting Self-Worth for Survivors is intended for women or individuals who identify as women who have experienced chronic childhood abuse, sexual assault and rape, and/or intimate partner or domestic violence. This book offers great value with effective strategies. Take the time to actively engage with the interactive book and apply the ideas to your daily routine. The Worthy Woman Workbook is simple to use and has powerful self-reflective questions and activities so that you can easily learn new skills to support yourself. While on this journey, you will also gain great insight about yourself. May The Worthy Woman Workbook be a powerful support for you (or someone you know) on your healing journey.

      Epigraph

      Until one is committed to their goals of healing, there is uncertainty and hesitation. The chance to retreat is high because when one starts moving forward without an undying commitment one withdraws to the well-known place of comfort, complacency, and convenience. It is only when one is wholly committed to their why, legacy, or calling, that one will remain and endure the uncomfortableness of healing, recovery, and change. With that, one creates new neuronal pathways in the body which supports new patterns of being – feeling, thinking, and doing. The uncomfortableness of healing and change eases and the internal angst or pain decreases until, once again, one challenges themselves with new levels of commitment. When one is entirely committed, a timely universal force moves in catching us with a sense of surprise, and all sorts of unexpected events never thought possible begin streaming because of one’s firm commitment.

      By Desiree Leigh Thompson

      Why I Needed to Heal, and You Can Too

      I had no emotional awareness and no formation of an identity. There was this internal state of nothingness. I couldn’t understand what I was feeling, and with that I lacked self-understanding of who I was. I couldn’t connect with me—that self that others know, where one imagines, dreams, feels, and plans for the future. The one you take for granted and know as you—that understanding of yourself and who you are as a person with beliefs and values, goals and abilities, and preferences. I had no me: no understanding of my feelings or of my self. There was only this disturbing sense of nothingness—a deep void, a separation, or a disconnection from who I was.

      These words you just read may be quite complicated and even concerning to comprehend if you have never experienced developmental trauma (otherwise known as chronic childhood trauma) or severe emotional neglect and are not familiar with the consequences of cumulative abuse. I knew there was something not quite right with me for a few years. Even though I could not put my finger on it, I shrugged it off, but at a low point in my life when I was despondent and living in a dysfunctional relationship, I had a divine intervention, and the message I received was to heal.

      At this point in my life, I had already hired a Tony Robbins life coach. It was 2006 and I was forty-one years old. With regularly scheduled sessions, my mind opened up to new ideas and ways of thinking. Soon after, I enrolled in a coaching program. It was an eighteen-month online group program. Less than a year later, I enrolled in a second coaching program. This one was in-person weekend workshops over the course of a year. I enrolled in the coaching educational programs because I wanted to learn how to better communicate with my children. I wanted to have a better and more intimate relationship with them. I wanted to learn how to draw ideas and dreams out of my sons so they could discover who they were and what they were interested in. I did not want them to struggle like I had struggled all my life. I also wanted to be a better mom. I knew I was mentally messed up from years of trauma because my emotional swings were erratic and sometimes uncontrollable and my mind was always thinking about suicide, and it was impacting my mental health as well as my children’s. I also wanted to be a better person, and I wanted to do the right thing for my family. I knew that the coaching programs would support me to gain insight into myself because I gained a lot of insight from my coaching calls with my life coach. I also knew that by enrolling in these coaching programs, I was going to be challenged by having to look at my belief systems and perspectives. It scared me, but I really wanted to start understanding me and where my perceptions, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors were coming from.

      One principle of coaching education is before one coaches another person, one has to learn how to coach oneself and one has to be coached. I knew this was going to be difficult for me because I did not like when others prodded or asked me too many questions. I would get irritated and annoyed.

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