The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma: Reaching the Divine Through Nature's Healing Symbols - Softcover

Macfarland Ph.D., Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556437250 ISBN 13: 9781556437250

Verlag: North Atlantic Books, 2008

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One of Graham Greene’s characters famously said, “I suffer, therefore I am,” suggesting that pain is an inescapable, and perhaps incurable, part of the human condition. But must this be so? Ellen Macfarland argues otherwise in The Sacred Beyond Trauma. Through the use of mythology, stories from film and fiction, real-life examples, and her personal history, Macfarland shows that healing trauma is indeed possible, using rich resources near at hand, in nature. The book explores major symbols of healing nature that can provide an impetus for personal transformation. One of the case studies profiles Monty Roberts, a well-known horse trainer who overcame significant childhood abuse by working with horses and eventually fostering some forty children alongside his own biological family. The key, says Macfarland, is using these and other natural symbols such as yin yang to balance the tension between trauma and numinosity (sacredness, transcendence), resulting in the creation of a new way of being in the world. Understanding this and the book’s other nature-based symbols can turn the distressed mind into a fertile field of spiritual awareness, empowerment, and lifelong growth.

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Ellen Macfarland practiced psychotherapy for twenty years. She leads popular workshops nationally on the healing of trauma from a depth perspective. The founder and director of Brookfield Counseling Services, a nonprofit agency providing mental health care for those unable to pay, she lives in Big Sky, Montana.

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• Verlag: North Atlantic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1556437250
• ISBN 13: 9781556437250
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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