As Good as the Best: Power and Possibility Beyond C-PTSD - Hardcover

by D. Novo (Author)

2026 Living Now Book Awards Gold Medal - Metaphysical

2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal - Mind / Body / Spirit

From trauma,

To baseline,

To bringing forth

The life of your dreams.

D. Novo knows what it's like to grow up in an environment defined by instability, dysfunction, and narcissism.

To feel unsafe, dysregulated, trapped, and alone.

She also knows what it's like to begin to break the cycle.

To realize she-and we-are not alone

Through her journey, she found peace, clarity, self-compassion, and the freedom to pursue her most authentic dreams.

It's hard to imagine possibility when you're living in hypervigilance-and difficult to feel powerful when the complex trauma you experienced was ongoing and inescapable for so long. Sometimes, the thoughts, beliefs, actions, and reactions that saved you as a child are the thoughts, beliefs, actions, and reactions standing in the way of your dreams today. The "resilience" that ensured your survival back then may now demand that you never aim too high, never risk failure or heartbreak, and never take a break. Or, it may require you to conform to others' ideas of what your dreams should be.

Through a rich blend of somatic practices, positive psychology, social observation, deeply personal memoir, and a trauma-aware reimagining of manifestation, As Good as the Best empowers you to quiet the echoes of childhood trauma. It's a compassionate guide to feeling worthy of life's limitless possibilities and trusting your innate power with all of your mind, body, and spirit.

You deserve so much more than survival.

Heal to begin to believe it.

Anything is possible.