This is an excerpt from Book 2: The Search
GROWING UP WITHOUT THE GODDESS is my spiritual memoir written in three parts. In Book 1: Breakdown, the author is in her mid-thirties when she experiences a sudden wobble in her psyche. She senses something old and destructive from the past is re-emerging and will destroy her stable life. She begins to explore the darkness within herself, and in Book 2: The Search, she goes on a journey through her past and takes the reader through a coming-of-age story with a wild-child who returns to the South as an intuitive adult to uncover secret wounds and a secret abuser. In Book 3: Revelations, haunting memories, dreams, and visions disclose her secret abuser and lead to shocking revelations for all who grow up in a culture that does not honor the goddess.
I live in Southeastern North Carolina where I write, practice and teach Healing through Touch and Aromatherapy, and lecture about recovering from sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. In my book GROWING UP WITHOUT THE GODDESS, I share what my journey through sexual abuse has taught me about the cause of sexual abuse and about healing: • Cultures, which do not acknowledge the Divine Feminine, create abusers and groom women to be vulnerable to sexual abuse. • “Where one or two who are gathered together,” they may awaken another’s dormant, divine healing powers. • All healing is self-healing. • Healing is lifelong. My healing journey has taught me that we can activate the Divine Feminine within us and heal ourselves daily through heart-centered and intention-centered practices, as well as through energy body practices. Such practices include: • Healing Touch, meditation, prayer, soul retrieval, Qigong, psychotherapy, dream journaling, yoga, and • Aromatherapy, acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology, and Reiki, among many, many others. Read more on my blog http://GrowingUpWithoutTheGoddess.blogspot.com/
