Hearing Voices
Hearing Voices

Author: John Watkins

Publisher: Michelle Anderson Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780855723903

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The issues surrounding mental health in Australia have for the past year created a great deal of exposure in the media. Andrew Denton's programme Enough Rope recently devoted an entire programme to the problems of Hearing Voices. This book contains a wealth of information of great practical value to people who hear voices as well as to those who simply wish to learn more about this fascinating aspect of human psychology. It also addresses many complex questions regarding personal identity, the nature of consciousness, the relationship between mind and brain and the place of spirituality in human life - issues which will be of interest to all thoughtful readers. John Watkins is an internationally-known and respected counsellor and educator whose main professional interest is in exploring and promoting holistic approaches to the development and maintenance of mental Health. In this latest book, he provides: a detailed description of a wide variety of voice hearing experiences, an overview of the theories accounting for how and why this happens, a range of practical techniques for coping with or stopping voices, guidelines for applying spiritual discernment to hearing voices, and strategies for optimising the personal value of voice hearing experiences.

Voices from the Ancestors
Voices from the Ancestors

Author: Lara Medina

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0816539561

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Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Healing Voices
Healing Voices

Author: Sara A.

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2023-04-24

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13:

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This book is all things known and unknown, I am here to take you through a journey, one that may want you to occasionally release and let go of all elements that are holding you back. Healing is unimaginably transformational. This poetry compilation expresses from my soul to yours. It follows what most of us witness after a world-crashing emotional downfall. Let’s carry on this journey together, some sections will connect with you. A few may connect with the painful self. And the rest will let you travel to a space with a magical essence, to heal again, to dream again. One thing certain in life is changes, the truth is everything has a beginning and an end, like chapters from a book; nothing is permanent. Then why do we so often dwell on little moments that leave us in despair? I think it’s the passion and situational connections that we build time to time, the un-understandable disconnection of them leaves a tremor within. It can be helpful to reflect on the internal shifts you’re facing. Take a deep breath and release trauma from the memory chamber to take that first step to move toward your healing journey. That smile and the dreaming self deserves a comeback. Don’t let the voices dull down, turn them into a fire that will ignite within you to do right, to choose right, and to stay humble, kind, and mindful of those you are to interact with. Treat the break of dawn, where the sun rises as a moment of infinite opportunities for you to renew yourself once again. Moonfalls will be the marking of new beginnings! Breathe again in ease. As there are no the ends, Just many more new beginnings...

Ecological and Social Healing
Ecological and Social Healing

Author: Jeanine M. Canty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1317273419

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This book is an edited collection of essays by fourteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the boundaries of ecological and social healing. The women are prominent academics, writers and leaders spanning Native American, Indigenous, Asian, African, Latina, Jewish and Multiracial backgrounds. The contributors express a myriad of ways that the relationship between the ecological and social have brought new understanding to their experiences and work in the world. Moreover by working with these edges of awareness, they are identifying new forms of teaching, leading, healing and positive change. Ecological and Social Healing is rooted in these ideas and speaks to an "edge awareness or consciousness." In essence this speaks to the power of integrating multiple and often conflicting views and the transformations that result. As women working across the boundaries of the ecological and social, we have powerful experiences that are creating new forms of healing. This book is rooted in academic theory as well as personal and professional experience, and highlights emerging models and insights. It will appeal to those working, teaching and learning in the fields of social justice, environmental issues, women's studies, spirituality, transformative/environmental/sustainability leadership, and interdisciplinary/intersectionality studies.

Native Plants, Native Healing
Native Plants, Native Healing

Author: Tis Mal Crow

Publisher: Native Voices Books

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 157067986X

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This book is a must for beginners and serious students of herbs and of Native American ways. This set of herbal teachings, which draws strongly from the Muscogee tradition, presents an understanding of the healing nature of plants for the first time in book form. In a time of expanding awareness of the potential of herbs, this work shines and beckons. Tis Mal examines common wild plants and in a clear and authoritative style explains how to identify, honor, select, and prepare them for use. Illustrated and indexed by plant name and medical topic.

Voices of Bipolar Disorder
Voices of Bipolar Disorder

Author: Richard Day Gore

Publisher: LaChance Publishing LLC

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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Summary: You'll go inside the challenges of bipolar disorder, through dozens of true stories written by those with the disorder and by those whose lives have been touched by the disease.

Healing Voices
Healing Voices

Author: Toni Ann Laidlaw

Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Healing Voices presents the framework of innovative therapy, but more importantly, describes healing techniques such as ego-state therapy, Jungian dreamwork, native healing, and hypnosis for overcoming trauma, abuse, guilt, or other life problems.

Herbal Voices
Herbal Voices

Author: Anne Kathleen Dougherty

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780789022042

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Herbal Voices: American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists examines how the herbalists of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture are reacting to the mainstream fascination with herbal medicine in the 21st century.

Being Heard: Healing Voices of Trauma
Being Heard: Healing Voices of Trauma

Author: Vera Stasny

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2021-03-28

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1982266147

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This collection of deeply introspective poems reflects Vera’s inner voice in response to her unrecognized and unfelt personal traumas and shocks. She writes about loss, pain, joy, love, fear, memories, and death. The poems, written over a four-year period, emerged from moments of silence. They give voice to that which otherwise might remain lost or hidden. They reflect her previously unexpressed emotions underlying life’s traumatic experiences. The voices within compelled her to bring them forth on her healing journey “A debut collection details the the way poetry can transform pain into hope and healing. The author is particularly good at demonstrating the way in which psychic pain lodges in the body how mental strife has physical effect . She makes readers feel the shortness of her breath and the churning in her gut. But even in such struggle, there is hope, and her verse also testifies to the possibility of recovery... Her moving book is an invitation a well - one those suffering from trauma would do well to accept...Touching poems that show reader both the storm and the calm that can follow.” — Kirkus Review of Books “A soulful, well-written and sincere narrative uniting us all in our common vulnerability. The collection can be easily read in any order, each entry connected and yet able to stand alone. The writing speaks openly from one heart to another, leaving you in a better place at the end of the journey.” — Kathryn Castelli