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I Am Safe:

Trauma-Responsive Practices
in Crisis Mental Health

by Chrissy Mignogna

I Am Safe:

Trauma-Responsive Practices in Crisis Mental Health

by Chrissy Mignogna

“This guidebook honors the body’s innate ability to protect itself at all costs and highlights the healing power of mind-body practices to support safety and human connection.”
- Kathy Flaminio

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I Am Safe is your go-to guidebook for sharing mind-body strategies in crisis mental health settings. Mental health practitioners, youth workers, educators, and families supporting people healing from trauma will see themselves in these compelling real-life stories and seven trauma-responsive teaching tips:

  • Seeing and Accepting Participants Just as They Are
  • Being Our Own Best Teachers
  • The Importance of Connection
  • Alternative/Introductory Mindfulness Strategies (AIMS)
  • Messages for Trauma-Healing
  • Predictability Creates Safety
  • Strengthening the Mind-Body Connection Through Reflection

Explore the science of why mind-body practices are critical for healing trauma while receiving step-by-step guidance for promoting the safety needed to encourage even the most reluctant patients, residents, clients, students, and family members to explore these strategies in groups or one-to-one sessions.

After embodying the I Am Safe approach, you will:

  • feel confident sharing trauma-healing mind-body strategies with others
  • cultivate your own stress-management practices to support your mental health and well-being
  • become a public mental health activist by implementing movemindfully trauma-responsive mind-body strategies in your personal and professional life

Order I Am Safe today and consider buying the movemindfully app or bundling the book with movemindfully visuals ( Therapeutic Card Deck, Elder Card Deck, Permission to Pause Poster Set and Inner Resources Card Deck ) to support integrating these strategies into your life right away. While these resources are not mandatory for you to benefit from this guidebook, having direct access to simple tools/visuals will make this work so much easier to integrate and share.

what people are saying about
I Am Safe

“Intended for caregivers supporting people with mental health crises, I Am Safe is a guidebook of mind-body strategies for healing trauma. As a practitioner, I find this book to be a much-needed and invaluable resource. Easy to follow and use, I Am Safe is sensitive to the science underlying mind-body practices and heavily informed by the author’s years of clinical experience. It covers what to do, describes why these strategies are helpful, and explains how to employ them in an inclusive, accepting, and effective manner. Stories throughout bring the concepts to life and convey the complexity and challenges of trauma healing. The author’s open and honest approach reflects the compassion and thoughtfulness needed to care for people in crisis. I highly recommend I Am Safe to caregivers who want to make a difference.”

- Gerard A. Banez, PhD
Director, Community Behavioral Health & Wellness
Training Director, Pediatric Behavioral Health Residency, Division of Pediatric Psychology & Department of Community Health Equity,
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
"This must-have book is for all those working in mental healthcare, humanitarian crises, or educational settings with children, teens, or adults. Insightful trauma-responsive teaching sections offer innovative and effective mind-body skills. Moving beyond pharmacological and conventional therapeutics , I Am Safe emphasizes research-based self-care utilizing mindfulness-based strategies . This approach is particularly important when mental health expertise is not accessible. Accessing our inner healing capacity, this book is truly a groundbreaking resource."

- Timothy Culbert, MD, FAAP
Medical Director Emeritus of The Center for Integrative Mental Health at
PrairieCare Medical Group, Minneapolis, MN
Author of the Be The Boss Of Your Body book series for children
Co-founder of Mental Wellness Innovations, a nonprofit organization supporting Mental Health Literacy for children and families.
"Who doesn't want to feel safe, seen, respected, acknowledged, and validated? Too often people in mental health crises get seen as "other" or as their diag­noses instead of human beings needing love. Through her superb storytelling skill, Chrissy Mignogna gives transformational trauma-responsive approaches and teaches you how to reconnect with your own heart so that you can connect with the hearts of all the people you serve . Scientifically proven mind-body strategies prepare you to be a skilled practitioner with lots of easy-to-use tools. I have the utmost respect and admiration for this author, the work she does, and the book she is offering to the world of mental healthcare, which so badly needs it."

- Lynn Rossy, PhD
Author of The Mindfulness-based Eating Solution and Savor Every Bite
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what people are saying about I Am Safe

“Intended for caregivers supporting people with mental health crises, I Am Safe is a guidebook of mind-body strategies for healing trauma. As a practitioner, I find this book to be a much-needed and invaluable resource. Easy to follow and use, I Am Safe is sensitive to the science underlying mind-body practices and heavily informed by the author’s years of clinical experience. It covers what to do, describes why these strategies are helpful, and explains how to employ them in an inclusive, accepting, and effective manner. Stories throughout bring the concepts to life and convey the complexity and challenges of trauma healing. The author’s open and honest approach reflects the compassion and thoughtfulness needed to care for people in crisis. I highly recommend I Am Safe to caregivers who want to make a difference.”

- Gerard A. Banez, PhD
Director, Community Behavioral Health & Wellness
Training Director, Pediatric Behavioral Health Residency, Division of Pediatric Psychology & Department of Community Health Equity,
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
"This must-have book is for all those working in mental healthcare, humanitarian crises, or educational settings with children, teens, or adults. Insightful trauma-responsive teaching sections offer innovative and effective mind-body skills. Moving beyond pharmacological and conventional therapeutics , I Am Safe emphasizes research-based self-care utilizing mindfulness-based strategies . This approach is particularly important when mental health expertise is not accessible. Accessing our inner healing capacity, this book is truly a groundbreaking resource."

- Timothy Culbert, MD, FAAP
Medical Director Emeritus of The Center for Integrative Mental Health at
PrairieCare Medical Group, Minneapolis, MN
Author of the Be The Boss Of Your Body book series for children
Co-founder of Mental Wellness Innovations, a nonprofit organization supporting Mental Health Literacy for children and families.
"Who doesn't want to feel safe, seen, respected, acknowledged, and validated? Too often people in mental health crises get seen as "other" or as their diag­noses instead of human beings needing love. Through her superb storytelling skill, Chrissy Mignogna gives transformational trauma-responsive approaches and teaches you how to reconnect with your own heart so that you can connect with the hearts of all the people you serve . Scientifically proven mind-body strategies prepare you to be a skilled practitioner with lots of easy-to-use tools. I have the utmost respect and admiration for this author, the work she does, and the book she is offering to the world of mental healthcare, which so badly needs it."

- Lynn Rossy, PhD
Author of The Mindfulness-based Eating Solution and Savor Every Bite
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About the author

Chrissy Mignogna is director of education and lead trainer for movemindfully, a Minnesota-based company that supports mental health professionals, educators, youth workers, and families seeking to integrate trauma-responsive mind-body practices into their personal and professional lives. Chrissy teaches movemindfully sessions in crisis mental health hospital units, outpatient programs, juvenile services, special education, and Head Start.

In addition to her work with movemindfully, Chrissy offers community-based classes both in person and online through her own business, Winged Heart Yoga. Her mission has always been to promote mental health by creating welcoming, safe, and inclusive spaces for people to explore how to use their mind-body connection for healing.