Sexual Abuse - Sacred Wound: Transforming Deep Trauma - Softcover

Provides creative, body-centered tools for trauma survivors.
Deeply moving stories of the transformative experiences of survivors of sexual abuse inspire readers to create healing opportunities for themselves. Using the expressive arts as a ground for awakening to self, the author guides the reader step by step through the profound and exciting process of recovering self while recovering memory. Like a compassionate therapist, the author who is both mature and well trained in techniques for addressing trauma, opens the window on new options for discovering wholeness. Panic attacks, eating disorders, psychosomatic illness, chronic fatigue, structural obstacles, difficulties in intimacy and relationship -- all these components of post-traumatic stress disorder are considered. Joyous and uplifting possbilities are presented for all members of the recovery population, including single parents, gays and lesbians, survivors of cult abuse, men, women and families.

Giving practical examples and case studies, this book shows how people traumatized by sexual abuse can be healed through the application of expressive therapies, and by treating trauma as a "sacred wound" modelled on the shaman's initiation wounding.