Review of The 10 Elements of Transformational Healing: How to Rebuild Your Life After Trauma

Okafor Prosper · Post by **Okafor Prosper** » 20 Apr 2023, 04:36

[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The 10 Elements of Transformational Healing: How to Rebuild Your Life After Trauma" by Eugene Pizzolato.]

4 out of 5 stars

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The 10 Elements of Transformational Healing: How to Rebuild Your Life After Trauma by Eugene Pizzolato is a book that offers a roadmap for healing from trauma. Drawing from his own experiences growing up in a traumatic household, Pizzolato shares his journey toward healing and provides readers with ten key elements that can help them rebuild their lives after experiencing trauma. Pizzolato's childhood was marked by abuse, neglect, and trauma. His father was physically and emotionally abusive toward his mother, and she struggled with suicidal thoughts and behaviors, leaving him to miss large parts of his classes to keep his mother company. Pizzolato himself was often the target of his father's abuse as well, and he was failed by the system meant to protect him. Interestingly, the root of these experiences would be the unhealed trauma suffered by his parents as they grew up, and they left deep scars that affected him well into adulthood.

One of the key themes of the book is how Pizzolato took several source fracture experiences in childhood and gave them negative meanings that affected him in adulthood. As he tells his story, especially in the first part of the book, he describes how these experiences led him to develop limiting beliefs about himself and the world around him. For example, due to several of his experiences with his parents, he believed that he was not worthy of love, support, or happiness and that the world was a dangerous and unpredictable place, and I could see how this manifested in his self-sabotage and hurt to his loved ones as an adult.

Throughout the book, Pizzolato explores his journey toward healing and provides readers with a detailed roadmap for their own healing journey at the end of his story in the third part of the book. He identifies ten key elements that are essential for transformational healing, from understanding the meanings of your source fracture experiences and their effect on your life to taking ownership of your life. I liked that he presented the book in this format, as his story was a perfect illustration of how to apply the elements, and he also utilized worksheets to further aid readers on their journey.

The author's personal touch, weaving his own personal story into the larger framework of healing from trauma, also makes the book feel relatable and accessible. This was my favorite aspect of the book, as it will help readers understand that healing is a journey that requires patience, persistence, and self-compassion, even though I did not enjoy seeing him falter so many times on his journey toward healing, undoing a lot of the good work he had done in one action. Nevertheless, he was very open and honest about the not-so-proud moments in his life, and I could relate to him.

One of the most important themes of the book is the power of self-compassion. Pizzolato emphasizes that healing from trauma requires us to be gentle and compassionate with ourselves. He writes on page 156, "Learning to love me first is one of the foundations for transformational healing." This further highlights that without self-love and compassion or forgiveness, we cannot truly heal. We cannot truly love others as well. This emphasis on self-compassion is particularly important for those who have experienced trauma, as they may have internalized negative beliefs about themselves and struggle with self-blame and shame, just like the author.

Overall, The 10 Elements of Transformational Healing is a powerful book that offers hope and guidance for those who have experienced trauma. Whether you are just beginning your healing journey or have been on it for some time, this book is a valuable resource that can help you move toward a more joyful life, and I would recommend it to you. I found some minor errors, but the book was professionally edited. The slow pace of his story, while he dwelt on aspects of his life that could have been summarized, made the read less than perfect for me, however. Therefore, I award a rating of four out of five.

"If you don’t heal your childhood trauma, it will repeatedly present itself. The more that you ignore it, the bigger it becomes, and if you don’t deal with it, it will deal with you, sadly hurting those you love along the way." - Page 11.

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The 10 Elements of Transformational Healing: How to Rebuild Your Life After Trauma
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Post by **Ukaegbu Confidence** » 21 Apr 2023, 09:12

Traumas are really difficult to get over. you may think you are healed until you encounter yet another trigger. Honestly the worst part is these triggers can not be avoided.

reviewerbook17 · Post by **reviewerbook17** » 22 Apr 2023, 20:13

This does look like a page turner and I would love to check out this wonderful and precise book.

Ayveen Ross · Post by **Ayveen Ross** » 29 Apr 2023, 20:05

I've been looking for the book that may aid me from this situation that I'm dealing with right now, due to that the therapist didn't do what i expected,it only tells me about finding a space and sleeping wich it's the most thing that I despise because it makes me thinks more about my past wich leads me to more traumas and depressions .So I recommended reading books a but as I read the description of this book, it feels like I found the one and it's going to help me heal my traumas,so let me check it inside.The description it's very attractive and greatly simplified.