Creating a safe storytelling and integration practice has been central to my personal healing from childhood trauma. It is my hope that
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Adult Trauma, and the Return to Wholeness: Reflections and Tools for the Journey
will support readers in forging their own healing paths.
Over the course of my personal healing journey, I discovered and reshaped these tools by hit and miss, often spending far too much time in disempowered states that left me feeling impotent and isolated.
It is my intention that this book save readers from similar feelings of helplessness by describing tools and reflections supporting individual and community integration practices. The tools are free, always available, and highly effective in employing both hemispheres of the brain in their use – our analytical, detail oriented abilities and our reflection, perspective expanding abilities. These tools also support organized community actions that effectively address the major assaults on our interwoven Earth environments, our educational opportunities, our social justice protections, and our democratic political systems.
From the book’s back cover:
With the rise of the Business Model in education, STEM courses and their analytical, practical uses have become more valued than the Arts and their requirements of close, in-depth reading and refection. Both analysis and reflection are necessary for the wise, informed problem solving required by a world in crisis. This book reintroduces readers to the concept of our wholeness and the habits of reflection, self- and co-regulation currently lost to unhealed traumas and the fragmented world the lack of trauma awareness has created.
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A note about the book’s design:
This is my second project with Michael Pietrobon, founder of Foglio Book Design Specialists, and his team. Their care with cover art and interior design created a much more meaningful symbol for wholeness than my original concept, and their prompt attention to queries and concerns made the entire project a pleasure. If you have a book you’re ready to launch or if you’re simply curious about the art of book design, please visit https://www.foglioprint.com/