Published books from The Pomegranate Connection team and official resources
Sustaining Open Hearts is a practical and active guide created from a depth of first hand experience. Written to help people working on the frontlines of forced migration, with survivors of trauma and the aftermath of violence, it’s a resource offering practical approaches, reflective exercises, and stories drawn from the experience of many diverse helpers. Therapists, healthcare providers, teachers, social workers and people who want to be helpful to people struggling with the effects of traumatic experiences will find encouraging and informative voices that illuminate a path often abandoned in lonely frustration but made sustainable when we turn toward one another. Practical, applied and universal.
What a rich collection of practical tips, experiential wisdom, profound stories and theoretical concepts! Sustaining Open Hearts is a treasure chest of therapeutic nuggets that deserves to sit on the bedside table of every therapist.
Steven Bratman MD
In Sustaining Open Hearts, Dr. Leyla Welkin has crafted a guide for working relationally and compassionately attuned to the primacy of interconnection. This work emerged from the wisdom of living bravely, centering dignity and care, facing and co-metabolizing pain, exhaustion, and despair. Leyla leads us through stories, conversations, and reflections to reveal pathways that strengthen intra-psychic, interpersonal, and intercultural bonds.
Leticia Nieto PsyD. Psychologist, teacher and author of Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment
True Friend- For Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse: How to be a friend to yourself how to be a true friend to a survivor is a compact self help guide for women who have been sexually abused and for their relatives, friends and the people who provide services to them. In clear, accessible language, this book describes the physiological, psychological and social effects of interpersonal trauma, offers practical exercises and activities that survivors can use to help calm and soothe themselves, and provides information and advice for people who want to be helpful to survivors. This book is appropriate for a wide audience and is especially designed for places where people may not have ready access to an established infrastructure of social and mental health services. True Friend takes a positive, reassuring approach to trauma recovery, is based on cognitive behavioural and mindfulness treatment methods, and is particularly focused on the healing possibilities of healthy relationships. Published first in Turkish, this book has been successfully used by all kinds of service professionals from police and lawyers to psychologists and counsellors, as well as survivors themselves. True Friend is a community oriented self help guide to a common, world wide social problem.
