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    Trauma and Recovery: Healing Through Traumatic Experience : A Guide for Light Workers and Healers
    Trauma and Recovery: Healing Through Traumatic Experience : A Guide for Light Workers and Healers
    Trauma and Recovery: Healing Through Traumatic Experience : A Guide for Light Workers and Healers
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    Trauma and Recovery: Healing Through Traumatic Experience : A Guide for Light Workers and Healers

    By Sheri-Therese Bartle

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    The words “trauma” and “recovery” have become laden with complex and often contradictory layers of meaning. In order to minimise confusion, I have attempted to define all terms used in this book in detail and to clarify which meanings are intended for the words employed. I have often found it necessary in these pages to use the term “traumatic experience” in place of “trauma,” since the latter technically refers to serious injury such as a physical wound in particular. Likewise, the term “healing” has been used in place of “recovery” to distinguish the metaphysical ideas explored here from the psychiatric or medical definition of “recovery,” a loaded word that implies the existence of purely mythical “diseases” that affect the mind or brain, or which refers to the overcoming of so called “addiction” to substances. Heal the mind, and the body will follow. This principle of mind over matter underlies the entire field of metaphysics, and must be the foundation for any mystical study of healing recovery. Materialistic philosophy and its outgrowths in medical science and popular thought must be deconstructed in our minds before we can find our way to the true recovery that arises out of love and harmony with the universe and spiritual awakening.

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    PublisherSheri-Therese Bartle
    Release dateSep 10, 2016
    ISBN9781370597017
    Trauma and Recovery: Healing Through Traumatic Experience : A Guide for Light Workers and Healers
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    Sheri-Therese Bartle

    Your author, Sheri-Therese Bartle, has spent most of her adult life as a spiritual teacher, practitioner and speaker. Living on beautiful Mount Tamborine in Queensland, through meditation, she works with esoteric and practical methods to help heal the emotional, physical and mental self. Her works are practical guides for you to use as the vehicle you can use to “go home”, to visit the place where you originated, the path you can travel to bring yourself into the realisation of “home” and "self", to awaken your consciousness to its true nature, to bring you a deeper level of healing, confidence and understanding by using your mind and emotions to effect positive change in your physical world.​ She openly invites you to join her as we celebrate everyone’s uniqueness and lovingly acknowledge that we all have a life purpose and she is blessed to become a part of your life journey into spiritual awareness.​​

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      Trauma and Recovery - Sheri-Therese Bartle

      Trauma & Recovery

      Healing Through Traumatic Experience

      A Guide for Light Workers and Healers

      By Sheri-Therese Bartle

      Copyright 2016

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      Cover Design by Sheri-Therese Bartle

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      How Can We Define Trauma?

      What Does Recovery Entail? The Healing Process

      Trauma as Initiation : The Dark Night of the Soul

      Physical Trauma

      Emotional Trauma

      Spiritual Trauma

      Mental Trauma

      Spiritual Survival and The Warrior Path

      Change Your Attitude : Change Your Life

      How do You Define Reality? : Language as a Mind Control Device

      Pitfalls on the Path to Recovery

      The First Pitfall: Psychiatric Help Can't Always Help You

      Dissociative Disorders, Satanic Cults and Other Myths

      Pitfalls: Boundaries Between Healers and Clients

      Ways of Healing Trauma: Therapists as Healers

      Healing Therapies: Divine Intervention and Magical Rejuvenation

      Healing Therapies: Meditation and Visualisation

      Discussion: A Living Philosophy of Love

      About the Author

      Introduction

      The words trauma and recovery have become laden with complex and often contradictory layers of meaning. In order to minimise confusion, I have attempted to define all terms used in this book in detail and to clarify which meanings are intended for the words employed. I have often found it necessary in these pages to use the term traumatic experience in place of trauma, since the latter technically refers to serious injury such as a physical wound in particular. Likewise, the term healing has been used in place of recovery to distinguish the metaphysical ideas explored here from the psychiatric or medical definition of recovery, a loaded word that implies the existence of purely mythical diseases that affect the mind or brain, or which refers to the overcoming of so called addiction to substances. Heal the mind, and the body will follow. This principle of mind over matter underlies the entire field of metaphysics, and must be the foundation for any mystical study of healing recovery. Materialistic philosophy and its outgrowths in medical science and popular thought must be deconstructed in our minds before we can find our way to the true recovery that arises out of love and harmony with the universe and spiritual awakening.

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      How Can We Define Trauma?

      Trauma can be divided into four basic categories. These are: physical trauma, or bodily injury; emotional trauma, or psychic injury; psychological trauma, or mental injury; and spiritual trauma, or injury to the spirit.

      However, since this book has been written from a metaphysical and not a medical point of view, we will mostly be dealing with the psychological aspects of any given traumatic experience and its aftermath. Once we understand trauma from a mental point of view, we’ll be better able to find the hidden lessons and higher meanings that lie within all types of experiences that might be considered traumatic. Keep in mind that, in accord with the idea of personal sovereignty, we have some control over our own experience. Though we cannot always decide whether or not we will experience some kind of injury, we can choose how to think about what has happened to us.

      Our minds, through their inherent power to create meaning and purpose, can provide the alchemical means by which any injury can be transformed into a tool for obtaining complete awareness and higher consciousness.

      Everyone in our world experiences some form of psychological trauma, even if only of a secondary nature. For example, seeing a dead body filmed on television can be psychologically traumatic and have detrimental effects on the mind of the viewer. Children are especially vulnerable to the effects of psychological trauma. This is why most mental injuries take place early in life, before the mind of an individual has become hardened by repeated exposure to psychologically harmful events and stimuli. Martha Stout in The Myth Of Sanity (2001) explains, All of us are exposed to some amount of psychological trauma at some point in our lives, and yet most of us are unaware of the misty spaces in our brains left there by traumatic experience, since for the most part we experience them only indirectly. In other words, most of the traumatic experiences to which we are exposed actually happen to other people. We read about these tragedies in the newspaper or see them on television.

      Civilization with its modern conveniences shelters us from the harsh conditions of life that prevail in the majority of earthly human situations even today. Privileged members of the industrialised middle class would probably feel psychologically traumatised by the simple conditions of everyday life that less fortunate people (i.e., the majority of humans on this planet) must accept. Martha Stout continues in this vein in The Myth Of Sanity (2001): Seldom do we ponder the traumatic events in our own lives, let alone the frightening hardships and life or death struggles that were the daily lot of people as close to us, in terms of time, as our great‐grandmothers, or even our grandmothers. The harsh conditions that prevailed in the lives of our own ancestors in previous generations still prevail in most parts of the world for most people. She also tells us, If we travel a little way from the developed world, we find that more than one fifth of the global population still lives in extreme poverty and life expectancy in some of the least developed countries is forty three years. At least one billion people now living on our planet suffer from chronic hunger, and a human child dies from malnutrition every four seconds. The World Health Organisation reports that half of humanity still lacks regular access to the treatment of common diseases, and to the most basic medicines.The physical hardships that we face in our own daily lives seem insignificant when meditated upon in the light of the much harsher conditions to which others are subjected.

      When we realise that everyone has hardships and troubles to face in life that equal or exceed those that we

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