this book is about healing from posttraumatic stress, or ptsd. it is about how posttraumatic stress can feel and about how you can approach healing. it is not a template for healing as that is best done with professional help, and healing is very individual anyway. this book is meant to lend a hand and to offer understanding during difficult times. it helps to organize thoughts and feelings and mentions symptoms, how they might feel, and how they might occur. it approaches posttraumatic stress as an injury that has happened to the whole being that is you.