Thorsons nets book on remedying everyday trauma from chartered psychologist Arroll

Thorsons has netted a book on remedying everyday trauma from chartered psychologist Dr Meg Arroll. 

Lydia Good, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Tiny Traumas from Dorie Simmonds at The Dorie Simmonds Agency. It will be published in hardback, audio and e-book on 2nd February 2023. 

The publisher described the book as a “vital toolkit for those who don’t always feel quite OK but might not think they have the ‘right’ to therapy or professional help; validating feelings of anxiety, detachment and self-sabotage and gently guiding readers towards finding the solutions”. 

Tiny Traumas explores the hinterland between mental wellness and illness; where someone’s mental health challenges do not neatly fit into a specific diagnosis or seen to warrant additional care, but still prohibits them to function and flourish fully within their day to day lives. 

Dr Arroll said: “In my career as a psychologist and researcher, I’ve seen themes emerge and ebb and flow over time – but one topic which never seems to garner the attention it deserves is Tiny T trauma. We are so quick to minimalise our everyday suffering by sweeping our trauma (whether big or small) under the carpet, producing lumps and bumps in life that eventually we trip over. Tiny T is everything I know about what makes people stop ticking, gathered from both professional and personal experience. This is the book I wish I’d been able to find, and I hope it is just the start of the Tiny T conversation.” 

Good added: “I’m so proud to be publishing Dr Meg Arroll’s debut book on Tiny T trauma – the initial submission created a ripple of lightbulb moments across the whole team as we read it, and we instantly knew how important it was to share this book with the world. Meg has identified a crucial cause and effect of compounding ‘micro’ traumas, which leave deep imprints on our mental wellbeing and can impact our daily lives. We all deserve to have access to the knowledge and understanding to overcome these experiences, and Meg does this so brilliantly.”