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​Trauma No More
Traumatic events happen when they are least expected.

Are you finding it hard to get back to normal life? Maybe you've experienced an accident, a health crisis, someone who died, or a significant change.

Have you experienced relationship struggles at home or work.  Even disappointments or feeling overwhelmed can produce traumatic responses.

Some believe they are not "traumatized" so they "don't need help" yet admit, "I just can't seem to shake the memories. They just keep popping into my head."

Trauma No More can help. It's your guide to make the best of these troubling situations. Throughout his trauma counselling career, the author has successfully helped many through these six steps. He developed and used these very diagrams, now in color, to assist with clarifying the concepts.

If you like to skim a book, the fast-track option is embedded throughout as an easy to follow, expedited way of getting help. To expand your understanding, read the full-track portions.

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                                                                     What Readers Are Saying about Trauma No More

"SO good; I found myself re-doing each step as I read through both the fast and slow tracks! I found the examples you gave to be specific and not too lengthy or wordy. Descriptors were clear and easy to understand. I like the way the guide is laid out; I could choose what track I wanted to follow and could go back to previous steps easily. Finally, I LOVE the Healthy Highway explanation!
I find myself thinking about and sharing it with others often. I am also really trying to apply it to my own life and interactions with family and friends. I found [this material] to be very valuable in my own 'recovery' and will definitely recommend this guide to others." - Teresa E., Teacher


"This guide addresses the important steps to creating a healthier perspective of life when recovering from trauma. It addresses the important topic of trauma recovery and specifically guides the participant(s) through a six step guide with multiple examples, illustrations, questions and information. This helpful resource should make an important contribution to individuals seeking the Healthy Highway on their life journeys." - L. Morales - Author, Educational Consultant
SYNOPSIS
The nugget, of TRAUMA NO MORE: A Six-Step Recovery Guide, is that trauma is a uniquely personal response to a troubling event or situation.

A person's past experiences and perspectives have major implications causing the degree of trauma felt. This Six-Step Guide is designed to: bring insight into any trauma experience you choose; learn how it is affecting you; discover why you experience trauma the way you do; and then help you reinterpret the beliefs that produce trauma in your life.

This can equip you to face future troubling events with more freedom to make choices less controlled by your typical trauma responses.

That's a mouthful but simplified through the proven steps in this impactful book: Choosing to Act, Describing the Trauma, Identifying your Theme, Exposing the Source and Impact, Reinterpretting your Beliefs, and Affirming your Identity.

​Welcome to a better you!

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Book Details:
  • Publishing Date: April, 2021
  • 5 x 8 inches
  • 116 pages
  • Color

​ISBNs
  • Ebook: 978-1-5255-9098-6
  • Paperback: 978-1-5255-9096-2
  • Hardcover: 978-1-5255-9097-9

Categories:
  • SELF-HELP/Personal Growth/General
  • SELF-HELP/Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • HEALTH & FITNESS​/Mental Health

                        R E L A T I O N S H I P S

It’s All About Power and Control

"Profoundly liberating" - Lynn
"Transformed our marriage" - Stevo
"I still have not read another book that so
accurately portrayed my life in the hands of
​a merciless covert narcissist abuser." - Lynn F.

Are you frustrated with the control issues in your relationship?

Do you need clarity about personal
power and control issues in your marriage?
​
Norm's innovative insights on power & control in relationships, shared for decades with clients and students,
can provide valuable answers and solutions
to the power struggles preventing
harmony and satisfaction from
​being realized in your relationships.

REVIEWS

amazon Review:  Top reviews from Canada
Lynn, Canada 5.0 out of 5 stars  Life changing Reviewed in Canada on February 3, 2014
THis book was recommended to me by a wonderful therapist. I read "It's All About Power and Control" in one sitting. There is not a page of my well worn copy that is not circled, highlighted and annotated, stained with tears. Norman Quantz explains with crystal clarity, the mind and tactics of the emotional abuser, and helps to explain the vulnerabilities of the victim. What is insidious about emotional abuse, is its twisted and subtle nature. For years, I had wondered if I was crazy. Every time I left a conversation with my husband, I was confused and discouraged. Something was terribly wrong, and I couldn't put my finger on it. This book was profoundly liberating, as I recognized myself and my abuser, and was able, finally, to become angry enough about the injustice, selfishness and manipulation to finally take action. When I would lose courage, and doubt myself, and question my own instincts and perceptions (all the result of the manipulation and twisting of reality that is the particular talent of the emotional abuser), I would re-read this book and recognize the patterns once again. The writing is at times unpolished. However, that shouldn't cause the reader to doubt the credibility of the writer. Norman Quantz may be relatively unknown, but his insights are brilliant. 5 stars!

Stevo 5.0 out of 5 stars  Life Changing Reviewed in Canada on November 9, 2020 Verified Purchase
​The ideas in this book were life changing for me. The author of this book counselled my wife and I over 20 years ago and it transformed our marriage. I had no idea at the time that I was excercising power and control with my relationship with my wife in a very negative way. It helped me to own that and then to start to realize how much power I had in my relationship with my wife to bless and love her. My wife and I now lead a marriage ministry in a church and the ideas in this book I use on almost a daily basis.

LYNN F.    SUBMITTED MARCH 10, 2025 
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Hi - I was looking for more information about you, and stumbled upon your website and new book. I've always wanted to thank you for It's All About Power and Control. It was recommended to me by a dear Christian counsellor - Karen B. I read your book in one weekend, my rage and frustration and dawning awareness evidenced on every highlighted and tear stained page. I still have not read another book that so accurately portrayed my life in the hands of a merciless covert narcissist abuser. It was the wake up call that led eventually to my leaving and divorcing my abuser. It has been 12 years, and I am still healing from my 27 year marriage. I've read many dozens of self help books and books about abuse but yours is still the best. - Lynn F.


SYNOPSIS

The nugget, of IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER AND CONTROL: Why Relationships Fall Apart and What it Takes to Put Them Back Together Again, is learning how power and control dynamics, at work in your relationships, affects your life for good or not, and what you can do about it. It exposes the more subtle types of abuse perpetrated by the mental, emotional, and psychological abuser. 

Just as your eye glasses help you to see more clearly, so viewing your world of relationships, through the lenses of power and control, can help you grasp the issues that make relationships either a disaster, mundane, or deeply satisfying. 

SECTION ONE exposes the depth of problems due to the abusive use of power and control. Abuse statistics and identifying the cycles in abuse reveal the pervasive nature of the problem.
SECTION TWO defines the strategies and tactics of the psychological abuser which makes it plainer to see the more subtle sides of mental abuse in relationships, what causes abuse, and typical stages of marriages (relationships) falling apart.
SECTION THREE refreshingly equips you to know and own your own power and control, how to take charge of yourself through a mindset change, and what it takes to experience power and control at its best. Power isn't the problem. The abusive, manipulative, coersive use of power is! 

Abuse doesn't have to develop into physical abuse to destroy a relationship. Mental control and manipulation can kill a relationship and happens often without the physical harm factor.

Norm demonstrates that many relational problems are rooted in the misuse of power and control. He defines and differentiates between Power and Control. He demonstrates the difference between love-based vs abuse-based use of one's power through control. Through his counseling, teaching, speaking, and insights from his own life experiences, he has helped thousands of individuals and couples move from coping to conquering. Take back your power and control and make your relationships all that you want them to be.

The beauty of this book is how much time is spent providing solutions to the problem and helping you take steps towards developing a love-based power and control attitude towards the goal of growing true love in your relationships.

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Book Details:
  • Publishing Date: Nov. 3, 2010
  • 6 x 9 inches
  • 310 pages​

​ISBN
  • Paperback: 978-0986762505

Categories:
  • Sociology of Marriage & Family
  • Family Abuse
  • Marriage

                                p r o f i l e

About The Author
Norm L. Quantz, MA, BTh, BRE
This is me at my core: 
I am a compassionate, persistent truth seeker, who finds contentment
in the deep substantial changes that are possible through the
persistent pursuit of wholeness as I impact my world for good.
​​My professional career has focused on helping people take the steps necessary for core change as they pursue wholeness. As a counsellor, relationship expert, trauma specialist, and instructor, I have listened to thousands of people tell their stories of struggles and successes in relationships. Whether in crisis or in the classroom, people want someone to listen and understand. I tried to listen and learn from my clients and students while empowering them to excel.

As an author, it is my desire to be candid, caring, and compassionate in order to uniquely impact the world I touch—for good.

After obtaining two undergraduate degrees and experience counselling in a pastoral role, I graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts in Counselling. With over 30 years as a Relationship and Trauma Counsellor, I fully retired from my professional practice in June, 2021.

One of the keys to my successful career, I believe, has been the diversity of my life experiences that taught me what it’s like to live in the real world. Here is a glimpse into other life experiences that have impacted my writing: developing and teaching seminars, adjunct professor, construction worker, heavy duty equipment operator, handyman, and volunteer work on community service boards such as a regional health advisory board and past chair of Didsbury (AB) Municipal Planning Commission.

​My biggest joys in life, including writing, are spending time with family and friends, playing table games, curling, and golfing.

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