In Becoming an Empowered Survivor, Elizabeth M Jones relates her personal growth and efforts to manage her "unhealthy survivorship." She helps you learn strategies to assist as you mend from trauma and mentions imposter syndrome and the methods she uses to silence her inner critic. Jones details "HEAL" and how she stayed hopeful, had a two-part evolution, and discovered self-love while outlining the four types of trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. The author addresses unhealthy survivorship at great length, discussing its characteristics and showing how to spot it in yourself and others. Jones also includes good resources for your restorative journey.

Elizabeth M Jones's moving and inspirational work will motivate you to take the first or next steps to break the chains of trauma. Her book is cathartic, and you may find yourself experiencing the feelings and events she describes. The author will help you shift the focus to helping yourself, and, if you follow her example, you may end up changing your current life to create a healthier future. You will learn to consider your emotional needs, establish healthy relationship boundaries, and love yourself and others as you heal. Jones offers a deep inside peek at her life as she describes her traumatic experiences, the way she dealt with them, and the moment she understood she needed to heal. Readers who hope to break cycles and find the motivation to recover from trauma and embrace their authenticity will benefit from reading Becoming an Empowered Survivor.

Becoming an Empowered Survivor by Elizabeth M. Jones is for anyone wanting to heal. Her strategies and belief in herself are powerful. Her story inspires you to overcome the effects of unprocessed trauma. Her story delivers a message to other survivors that they, too, can heal. People apply harmful coping mechanisms as survivors of enduring trauma and abuse. Now, as a healing mentor, she can pay forward the beauty of her healing to others. You can refine the various tools offered in this book to work for you. Her healing toolkit contains important messages: Do not despair. There is no part of the healing process that anyone can do for you. Elizabeth had to eliminate harmful coping mechanisms, like alcohol and substance abuse. Each experience, both trauma and survival, was laid on top of her—event by event, year after year. She takes you through her life’s history, painting the dysfunctional home environment that led her to search for what could numb her pain, particularly from some of her interactions with her parents and Tristan, her husband. Elizabeth was comforted by having some explanations of what was behind certain events in her life. She focused on self-care, self-evolution, and self-discovery.

Becoming an Empowered Survivor shows the successful transformational healing journey that helped her fight the deep pain of emotional neglect, outright rejection, and abandonment. Blame and shame can cause a survivor to feel hopeless and helpless, unloved and unlovable. This is why the message about healing is to hope, evolve, and love, essential in creating healthy and loving relationships. To me, it shows the importance of not being stuck in your past and separating yourself from a traumatizing environment. For more than twenty-five years Elizabeth M. Jones was unsuccessful. With hypnotherapy, she learned to manage her self-criticism, including her childhood, failed marriage, and relationships with family and friends. We don’t need to adopt the self-inflicted stigma of being damaged goods. I admire Elizabeth for paving her path forward in a new direction. Her intentional journey toward finding her higher spiritual self and purpose to remain steadfast and engaged with the healing process reflects her tenacity. Her success is memorialized in this self-help book.