An empathic, gentle, therapeutic workbook. It is written and designed as non-gender specific. It allows for making one’s own journal notes along the way to move forward. This means that the workbook can be used within any therapeutic setting whether with a professional or on one’s own. Journaling is well known for allowing the safe release of emotional pain, expression and writing down thoughts and feelings.

This book contains Granite Programme© which is a burn out Recovery Plan for those affected by Domestic Violence and Abusive relationships. It is completed over a twelve week period which is the standard timescale generally for people to start to recover from the symptoms of physiological burn out also known as adrenal and/or stress fatigue. It is a disordered function, a depletion as a result of an over firing of the flight or fight process, situated in the limbic system. A primitive survival technique.