Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World: My Life-Changing Journey Through a Shamanic School (Book 1)

by Weam Namou

Overview

Life has an odd way of bringing to you what you need when you need it most. Author Weam Namoulearns this through her experience with Lynn Andrews shamanic school.

When one day Namou sits down to write her next book, she feels resistance in her fingertips and a void in her spirit. She soon realizes that years of struggling in her writing career, witnessing the war in her birth country, Iraq, and juggling her responsibilities as a housewife and mother has caused her to lose her literary voice.

On a quest to once more find her voice, she comes across Writing Spirit, a book that rejuvenates her love for her career. When she calls the author, Lynn Andrews, for some literary advice, she has no idea that the one-hour call will lead her to four years of training in Lynn s shamanic school without walls. Here, she will face her innermost fears and heal her deepest wounds, in order to be reborn into a state of new potential.

Namou's story reveals how to track the events in your life that lead you to your individual truth. As you take her journey through Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World, you see yourself in each page and you witness how ancient teachings helped transform the life of a twenty-first century writer, wife, and mother.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780977679041
Publisher:	Hermiz Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	02/04/2016
Series:	Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World , #1
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Weam Namou is an award-winning author of 12 books - three novels, one poetry book, the Iraqi Americans Book Series, and a 4-book memoir series about her experience with Lynn Andrews' 4-year shamanism school. For nearly ten years, she has been a journalist for the Chaldean News and is a reporter and ambassador of Arab America. Formerly, she was a columnist for the Macomb and the Oakland Observer, a contributor for the Gazette van Detroit, and a feature writer for the St. Clair Shore Times. She is the ambassador to Arab America, where she is also a regular contributor.

Namou received her Bachelor's Degree in Communications from Wayne State University. She studied fiction and memoir through various correspondence courses, poetry in Prague and screenwriting at MPI (Motion Picture Institute of Michigan). She writes for several local newspapers and her essays, articles and poetry have appeared in national and international publications including World Literature Today, Mizna, Gargoyles, Acumen 59 [England], the Transnational [Germany], MultiCultural Review and numerous other literary publications, including a chapbook called Lettre Savage.

As the co-founder and president of IAA (Iraqi Artists Association) and Ambassador of Arab America, Namou has given poetry readings, lectures and workshops at numerous cultural and educational institutions such as Madonna University, Wayne State University, Oakland Community College, and RAWI Conference at the Arab American National Museum, and Allied Media Conference. In 2012, she won a lifetime achievement award from E'Rootha.

Namou studied Sikkim from one of her teachers, a Native American man who lived with the Tibetan monks. She is a certified Reiki Master, and a graduate of Lynn Andrews' 4-year shamanic school.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Meeting a Modern-Day Shaman 1 Chapter 2 America, My New Home 11 Chapter 3 Welcome to the Mystery School 21 Chapter 4 This Land Once Belonged to the Natives 33 Chapter 5 Receiving Wisdom from a Mentor 43 Chapter 6 My Food Addiction Begins 59 Chapter 7 A Conversation with My Dead Father 69 Chapter 8 The World of Fat Girls 81 Chapter 9 To Chase or Not Chase a Dream 93 Chapter 10 The Hurrieder We Go, the Behinder We Get 103 Chapter 11 The Art of Stalking 113 Chapter 12 Original Training with Natives 129 Chapter 13 Self-Worth Issues 143 Chapter 14 Women Giving Their Powers Away 161 Chapter 15 Death of a Parent 171 Chapter 16 Writing Away Retreat 183 Chapter 17 The Great Nurturing Mother 199 Chapter 18: The Creative Rainbow Mother 215 Chapter 19 The Responsibility of a Writer 235 Chapter 20 Baking a New Me 253 Chapter 21 The Sacredness of Everything 267 Chapter 22 Magicians 283 Chapter 23 Freedom Christian 291 Chapter 24 A Lifetime Achievement Award 305 Chapter 25 The Old Iraq 313 Chapter 26 A Catholic Nun in a Previous Life 321 Chapter 27 Letting Go of a Dream 333 Chapter 28 Personal Evaluation Paper 339 About the Author 343 Other books by Weam Namou. 344 Attributions 347

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly Review:

Spiritual coach Namou (The Flavor of Cultures) describes her personal journey in this first volume of her four-part memoir. It begins with a phone conversation between Namou and author Lynn Andrews that was an essential part of Namou’s development; quotes and themes taken from this conversation are woven throughout the book, which recounts how Namou processed and came to terms with her childhood arrival in Detroit, Mich., after emigrating from Baghdad at the age of nine. Andrews encourages Namou to participate in the Mystery School, a lineage of learning based on Native American shamanic teachings, and this brings Namou a sense of release from the traumatization of being suddenly uprooted at such an early age to move to a vastly different culture. This thorough and descriptive first installment includes a deep look into her Iraqi past and Chaldean Christian background, and explores how that spiritual upbringing has influenced her present life. Spiritual terms and symbols that could be new to some readers are explained well throughout the book. Readers interested in personal journeys of faith will be eager to follow Namou along her spiritual path.

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