Calm in the Storm

Susan Guttridge is a Master's level Counsellor and certified EMDR therapist. She is registered with the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association. Susan's expertise is in trauma therapy and includes the impacts of trauma, anxiety and post-traumatic stress, and depression. Susan works with youth and adults in private practice in the sunny Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.

Calm in the Storm offers simple techniques and profound concepts to help you develop fundamental skills in settling over-whelming emotion.
There are moments in our lives when emotion comes on so strong and so fast that we feel out of control, completely over-whelmed, and emotionally flooded. It can be bewildering and frightening, often leaving us with a sense of powerlessness, even despair. When we haven't yet developed the ability to shift out of that emotional intensity, even the simplest tasks become harder. Life becomes harder. Emotional distress can feel painful, and the thoughts that so often accompany that distress can be confusing and debilitating.

This book will help you deepen your ability to settle intense and overwhelming emotion. Through the use of simple strategies that can be implemented anywhere, you will learn to recognize, observe, and shift your emotion. When we master strategies to healthfully soothe ourselves, to settle strong emotion, we build confidence. We start to feel stronger, more capable - in being with emotion and in life overall. This book will ignite hope and spark a renewed belief in your inner potential.