Have you ever read something that lingers on in your mind? A book that makes you think and think again? A book that makes you….feel?
“The Healing Power of Pain” is such a book. No ordinary ‘self-help’ book, no study material, but a ‘feel and do’ book on trauma.
A book that helps you to understand your own and other people’s pain and to soften that. A book that gives you ‘the healing power of pain’.
– Diana Evers, founder Mediv
– Pascaline Louwagie
– Cora Schieffer, mediator
– Ilse Van Brabant, psychologist
– Renild Goris, Bib Ravels
– Joke Bostoen
– Marcia Vermeulen
– Hélène Winandy
Real stories
Real people, real stories – recognizable and moving. Carlo is being bullied at school , Lena considers herself too fat, Camilla scratches herself until she bleeds, Elsie never ever feels any pain, Ruud doesn’t know who he is anymore, Anna struggles with old anxieties …
Theory and exercises
Explanation on what trauma is and how it occurs. And a lot of ideas and exercises to help (yourself).
Illustrations
Simple and spot-on. With one look you’ll understand immediately what re-traumatising, coping mechanisms, triggers, flashbacks, parentification and taboo mean.
What is trauma? How, where and when does trauma emerge? And how does trauma feel, which impact has trauma on our lives?
How does trauma settle itself inside us? What exactly happens inside – in your heart, your body and your mind? Which kind of mechanisms are at the root of traumatising?
How can we recognize trauma and learn to cope with it? How can we heal ourselves, strenghten our resilience and grow as a human being?
This is what the public, both laymen and professionals, says on ‘The Healing Power of Pain’.
What a great book! My psychologist gave me the book yesterday: to take a look at it. There are no words to describe the experience of reading it! WOW! is nowhere close to it… I have only read a few parts of it, because most chapters have an enormous impact on me, but it gives me a tremendous boost on my selfesteem. I realize now, I’m not alone. I feel less lonesome. I am a 100% sure now: one day I will be able to look at myself in the mirror and say: ‘Kim, I like you’ and I will believe and feel that with every bone in my body. I hope that you may touch many others with your book. THANK YOU!!!
‘The Healing Power of Pain’ is a book that brings hope and exudes power. The author succeeds in displaying both the pain as well as the resilience of traumatised people. A MUST READ for everyone with psychological pain and certainly for every therapist and psychologist.
I think the design and the lay out are great. And then there is the content… I started reading last night and couldn’t stop. It is beautifully written, with so much LOVE. It is very, very informative. I learned so much. It is all so recognizable. The excercises are very accessible. CONGRATULATIONS!
I very much enjoyed reading the book: with pleasure, with EMOTION and admiration! And the excercises really work; grief arose but also insight. Thank you x
I read the book in one go. Beautiful and simple, recognazible examples and a down-to-earth approach on how trauma works and especially how to heal from it. It’s ‘light’ because the author uses images, both written and drawn! It’s a rollercoaster. Ybe doesn’t limit herself to those who suffered from the ‘classical traumas’ (abuse, accidents, war). A big help for everybody who has suffered from psychological pain. For me the ideal book to give to my clients!
The book grabbed me, both personal as professional. It is beautiful, so recognizable, crystalclear and written in a warm, thoughtful way. The information brings an added value, especially when we think of the simple, bright way of explaining deep and often difficult items. Ybe is clearly a psychotraumatologist with an intense guidance of her clients.
FINALLY a book on trauma one can use: practical, positive and clear. Concrete, mild and to the point. As a human being and therapist I am very glad with and grateful for The Healing Power of Pain.
Ybe Casteleyn (Bensberg, Germany, 1967) is one of Europe’s most sought-after psychotraumatologists. She has (had) clients from all over Europe: from Norway and Finland, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Poland and even as far as the USA, Syria and Afghanistan. She speaks four languages: Dutch, French, English and German. In 2016, Ybe’s help was enlisted when the two terrorist bombings took place in Brussels, Belgium, leaving dozens of victims. She worked in the refugee camps in Greece for several months. Also in 2016 she wrote a book on trauma, called ‘Sterker worden waar het pijn doet’ (aka The Healing Power of Pain). She sold thousands of copies so far.
Ybe: “With more than 25 years of experience as a traumaexpert I carry countless stories of people in need. Numerous therapysessions, interventions, exercises and the outcoming of that – both good and less succesful are etched in my mind. You’ll find those stories in my book ‘The Healing Power of Pain’.
I have worked in many different contexts, with all sorts of trauma: people hunted by their past, survivors of child abuse, refugees, victims of accidents and crime, victims of terrorist attacks and so on.
Nowadays I organise trauma- and victim support trainings for my fellow emergency workers: midwives, social workers, doctors, gyneacologists, psychologists, traumatologists, HR-managers and CEO’s of companies and NGO’s.
I studied philosophy and moral sciences, studied for four years integrative psychotherapy, was trained as a familymediator, specialised in family constellations and of course psychotraumatology. I teach at the post-graduate study of psychotraumatology at the VUB (University Brussels). I am a former Member of the Board of the BIP (Belgian Institute for Psychotraumatology), a member of the ESTSS (European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and I have a ECP accreditation (European Certificate Psychotherapy), In the spring of 2022 I became a Member of the Board of TraumaNet.”
Ybe’s philosophy and work is very much in line with that of Peter Levine, Janina Fischer, Babette Rothschild and Bessel van der Kolk. She is an avid advocate for the ‘trauma-informed society’. In 2021, partly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, she decided to focus on and develop her own online courses, which hundreds of colleagues have attented so far. Ybe currently lives in France.
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Have you ever read something that lingers on in your mind? A book that makes you think and think again? A book that makes you….feel?
“The Healing Power of Pain” is such a book. No ordinary ‘self-help’ book, no study material, but a ‘feel and do’ book on trauma.
A book that helps you to understand your own and other people’s pain and to soften that. A book that gives you ‘the healing power of pain’.