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How can we respark joy and hope after despondency, numbness or trauma? Acclaimed psychotherapist and trauma expert, Graham Music, in his 6th book, distils decades of experience to deliver a roadmap for reigniting zest and passion in troubled adults and children. In these testing times many feel unmotivated and have lost their mojo. Some are listless, retreating inwards after trauma or loneliness, some become addicted to screens or meaningless activities, and many have lost passion in the face of life's challenges. Through fascinating tales from the consulting room and daily life, this book provides a ground-breaking model to regenerate hope. Music weaves together cutting-edge science, profound personal stories, therapeutic wisdom, and deep humanity. He outlines exactly how to understand and heal from a wide range of emotionally blunted states such as dissociation, depression, or helplessness. We hear about lives regenerated from ""desparked"" lifeless unenergized states, such as addiction, depression, trauma and learned helplessness. In each story the characters come alive on the page as we witness hope-inducing transformations, and find out just what's needed to reboot and respark emotional and bodily aliveness. We also hear deeply personal stories of the author's own life, the ways in which he shut-down his life-force in the face tough experiences, and how he was able to, as he writes, reset, reboot and re-find his spark. This book is unique in addressing the subjects of energy, lifeforce and the lack of it in emotional flatness and dulled down states. We learn new theories about how people can turn down danger signals, 'safen', become 'nervous system whisperers', reset and reboot and then respark into fuller lives. Never dull, the writing is sparkling, full of humanity, honesty and humour, and most importantly, of hope, and shows us how we can make life-changing changes to reclaim our potential for living fuller lives. This book is needed more than ever at this moment. .Whether you are a therapist, a professional, a parent, or anyone looking to find personal inspiration, RESPARK offers a captivating and hope-filled journey, showing how any of us can rediscover the vitality and desire to live richer lives.

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This book is absolutely brilliant, beautifully written, with a fantastic central metaphor about sparking and those who have lost or lack spark. Dr Karen Treisman MBE - TedX speaker; author of over 20 books, including A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma This wonderful book tackles a very important but neglected subject, and does so beautifully, with clarity, and very helpfully for the puzzled clinician or layperson. Graham Music also has an amazing gift for explaining the latest neuroscience simply. Dr Anne Alvarez - Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic; author of Live Company and The Thinking Heart This is an important subject, and Graham Music writes about it with style, with wonderful clinical stories combined with new science and compelling autobiographical touches, showing a degree of self-awareness and ability to learn from mistakes that is rare in psychotherapy writing. Sue Gerhardt - author of the bestselling books Why Love Matters and The Selfish Society This is a fascinating book, by one of the world's leading exponents of the use of attachment theory in psychotherapy. Graham Music explores the different reasons that children and adults can 'lose their spark' and the therapeutic challenges to help them rekindle it. A very accessible book of personal reflections, years of hard-gained therapeutic wisdoms and therapeutic techniques, it will be invaluable to therapists working with clients with these difficulties. Professor Paul Gilbert OBE - Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy; author of 20 books, including The Compassionate Mind Respark is engaging, informative, and moving. It depicts the many ways that trauma can leave people depressed, dulled, and desparked. As importantly, it illuminates the life-giving process of resparking. At the heart of Respark is Graham Music's deep knowledge of trauma, powerful imagery, and poignant life stories. This is a book that kindles both understanding and hope. Daniela F. Sieff, PhD - author of Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma Respark is a compelling synthesis of Graham Music's curious and lively mind. His ventures into neuroscience, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and embodiment has produced a remarkable model to reconceptualise and treat trauma and depression. At a time when record numbers of people are suffering with poor mental health, this book brings hope to them and for clinicians wishing to help. Respark cements Graham Music's place as one of the most innovative and influential psychotherapists of his generation. Jane O'Rourke - Founder of MINDinMIND; child, adolescent, and family psychotherapist Graham Music is a highly experienced, technically skilled, and intuitive clinician. This book distils his knowledge and wisdom gained over decades of clinical practice. The case studies and theory of resparking after trauma are perfectly timed for a world emerging from the Covid pandemic. Dr Sharon Lewis - Chartered Clinical Psychologist; Founder of ISTDP London; therapist and trainer

"""This book is absolutely brilliant, beautifully written, with a fantastic central metaphor about sparking and those who have lost or lack spark."" Dr Karen Treisman MBE - TedX speaker; author of over 20 books, including A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma ""This wonderful book tackles a very important but neglected subject, and does so beautifully, with clarity, and very helpfully for the puzzled clinician or layperson. Graham Music also has an amazing gift for explaining the latest neuroscience simply."" Dr Anne Alvarez - Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic; author of Live Company and The Thinking Heart ""This is an important subject, and Graham Music writes about it with style, with wonderful clinical stories combined with new science and compelling autobiographical touches, showing a degree of self-awareness and ability to learn from mistakes that is rare in psychotherapy writing."" Sue Gerhardt - author of the bestselling books Why Love Matters and The Selfish Society ""This is a fascinating book, by one of the world's leading exponents of the use of attachment theory in psychotherapy. Graham Music explores the different reasons that children and adults can 'lose their spark' and the therapeutic challenges to help them rekindle it. A very accessible book of personal reflections, years of hard-gained therapeutic wisdoms and therapeutic techniques, it will be invaluable to therapists working with clients with these difficulties."" Professor Paul Gilbert OBE - Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy; author of 20 books, including The Compassionate Mind ""Respark is engaging, informative, and moving. It depicts the many ways that trauma can leave people depressed, dulled, and desparked. As importantly, it illuminates the life-giving process of resparking. At the heart of Respark is Graham Music's deep knowledge of trauma, powerful imagery, and poignant life stories. This is a book that kindles both understanding and hope."" Daniela F. Sieff, PhD - author of Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma ""Respark is a compelling synthesis of Graham Music's curious and lively mind. His ventures into neuroscience, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and embodiment has produced a remarkable model to reconceptualise and treat trauma and depression. At a time when record numbers of people are suffering with poor mental health, this book brings hope to them and for clinicians wishing to help. Respark cements Graham Music's place as one of the most innovative and influential psychotherapists of his generation."" Jane O'Rourke - Founder of MINDinMIND; child, adolescent, and family psychotherapist ""Graham Music is a highly experienced, technically skilled, and intuitive clinician. This book distils his knowledge and wisdom gained over decades of clinical practice. The case studies and theory of resparking after trauma are perfectly timed for a world emerging from the Covid pandemic."" Dr Sharon Lewis - Chartered Clinical Psychologist; Founder of ISTDP London; therapist and trainer"

""This book is absolutely brilliant, beautifully written, with a fantastic central metaphor about sparking and those who have lost or lack spark."" Dr Karen Treisman MBE - TedX speaker; author of over 20 books, including A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma ""This wonderful book tackles a very important but neglected subject, and does so beautifully, with clarity, and very helpfully for the puzzled clinician or layperson. Graham Music also has an amazing gift for explaining the latest neuroscience simply."" Dr Anne Alvarez - Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic; author of Live Company and The Thinking Heart ""This is an important subject, and Graham Music writes about it with style, with wonderful clinical stories combined with new science and compelling autobiographical touches, showing a degree of self-awareness and ability to learn from mistakes that is rare in psychotherapy writing."" Sue Gerhardt - author of the bestselling books Why Love Matters and The Selfish Society ""This is a fascinating book, by one of the world's leading exponents of the use of attachment theory in psychotherapy. Graham Music explores the different reasons that children and adults can 'lose their spark' and the therapeutic challenges to help them rekindle it. A very accessible book of personal reflections, years of hard-gained therapeutic wisdoms and therapeutic techniques, it will be invaluable to therapists working with clients with these difficulties."" Professor Paul Gilbert OBE - Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy; author of 20 books, including The Compassionate Mind ""Respark is engaging, informative, and moving. It depicts the many ways that trauma can leave people depressed, dulled, and desparked. As importantly, it illuminates the life-giving process of resparking. At the heart of Respark is Graham Music's deep knowledge of trauma, powerful imagery, and poignant life stories. This is a book that kindles both understanding and hope."" Daniela F. Sieff, PhD - author of Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma ""Respark is a compelling synthesis of Graham Music's curious and lively mind. His ventures into neuroscience, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and embodiment has produced a remarkable model to reconceptualise and treat trauma and depression. At a time when record numbers of people are suffering with poor mental health, this book brings hope to them and for clinicians wishing to help. Respark cements Graham Music's place as one of the most innovative and influential psychotherapists of his generation."" Jane O'Rourke - Founder of MINDinMIND; child, adolescent, and family psychotherapist ""Graham Music is a highly experienced, technically skilled, and intuitive clinician. This book distils his knowledge and wisdom gained over decades of clinical practice. The case studies and theory of resparking after trauma are perfectly timed for a world emerging from the Covid pandemic."" Dr Sharon Lewis - Chartered Clinical Psychologist; Founder of ISTDP London; therapist and trainer

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Graham Music is an innovative psychotherapist, social entrepreneur trainer, author and thought leader . In his younger days his work included antique dealing, supporting the homeless and even house renovation. He is currently a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre where he has worked for over 20 years, and has been adult Psychotherapist for over 30 years. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock Clinic's Child and Family Department, his passion and clinical experience has been in working with trauma, for the last few decades at the Portman Clinic and in the Tavistock's Fostering and Adoption and Kinship Care team. He has developed and managed a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect and has prioritized community-based services for people who are often marginalized from mainstream clinic work, including developing services in over 40 schools. He supervises and teaches on a range of trainings in the UK and abroad, delivers many keynote talks at conferences, and often teaches internationally. He has a particular interest in trauma, neurobiology and attachment and linking cutting-edge developmental findings with therapeutic practice.

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