Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma

“This book is medicine for anyone who wants to free their mind, body, and soul from the past.” —Dr. Joe Dispenza,New York Times bestselling author of You Are the Placebo and Becoming Supernatural
 
Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018, she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasn’t thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet, as she began her journey to healing, this is exactly what she discovered.
 
If you’ve experienced trauma—whether through the helpless terror of a life-altering event or through the subtle victimization of an ongoing hardship—it might feel as if the very foundation of your well-being has been irreparably shaken. Yet we now know that trauma, when healed and integrated, can in fact make us more resilient and dynamic. With Trusting the Dawn, Mary Firestone presents an inspirational guide for turning our traumas into the very things that crack open a new, intangible, rapturous, magical dimension of life.
 
Throughout the book, Firestone draws from both her own healing journey and her background in clinical psychology to offer a radical, integrative handbook for not only healing from trauma but awakening to even more empowerment, joy, and meaning because of your experiences. Stories of triumphant survival and interviews with experts bring to life an extensive resource guide and holistic tool kit filled with pathways to healing, including reframing with language, energy and movement practices, acupuncture, aromatherapy, breathwork, and more
 
Trusting the Dawn is an invitation to see that you are more complex, multidimensional, connected, and powerful not in spite of what you’ve been through but because of what you’ve endured.

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Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma

“This book is medicine for anyone who wants to free their mind, body, and soul from the past.” —Dr. Joe Dispenza,New York Times bestselling author of You Are the Placebo and Becoming Supernatural
 
Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018, she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasn’t thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet, as she began her journey to healing, this is exactly what she discovered.
 
If you’ve experienced trauma—whether through the helpless terror of a life-altering event or through the subtle victimization of an ongoing hardship—it might feel as if the very foundation of your well-being has been irreparably shaken. Yet we now know that trauma, when healed and integrated, can in fact make us more resilient and dynamic. With Trusting the Dawn, Mary Firestone presents an inspirational guide for turning our traumas into the very things that crack open a new, intangible, rapturous, magical dimension of life.
 
Throughout the book, Firestone draws from both her own healing journey and her background in clinical psychology to offer a radical, integrative handbook for not only healing from trauma but awakening to even more empowerment, joy, and meaning because of your experiences. Stories of triumphant survival and interviews with experts bring to life an extensive resource guide and holistic tool kit filled with pathways to healing, including reframing with language, energy and movement practices, acupuncture, aromatherapy, breathwork, and more
 
Trusting the Dawn is an invitation to see that you are more complex, multidimensional, connected, and powerful not in spite of what you’ve been through but because of what you’ve endured.

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Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma

Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma

by Mary Firestone
Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma

Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma

by Mary Firestone

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“This book is medicine for anyone who wants to free their mind, body, and soul from the past.” —Dr. Joe Dispenza,New York Times bestselling author of You Are the Placebo and Becoming Supernatural
 
Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018, she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasn’t thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet, as she began her journey to healing, this is exactly what she discovered.
 
If you’ve experienced trauma—whether through the helpless terror of a life-altering event or through the subtle victimization of an ongoing hardship—it might feel as if the very foundation of your well-being has been irreparably shaken. Yet we now know that trauma, when healed and integrated, can in fact make us more resilient and dynamic. With Trusting the Dawn, Mary Firestone presents an inspirational guide for turning our traumas into the very things that crack open a new, intangible, rapturous, magical dimension of life.
 
Throughout the book, Firestone draws from both her own healing journey and her background in clinical psychology to offer a radical, integrative handbook for not only healing from trauma but awakening to even more empowerment, joy, and meaning because of your experiences. Stories of triumphant survival and interviews with experts bring to life an extensive resource guide and holistic tool kit filled with pathways to healing, including reframing with language, energy and movement practices, acupuncture, aromatherapy, breathwork, and more
 
Trusting the Dawn is an invitation to see that you are more complex, multidimensional, connected, and powerful not in spite of what you’ve been through but because of what you’ve endured.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683649120
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/23/2022
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mary Firestone
Mary Firestone is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MA in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. Her own transformative epiphanies led her, along with her sister Lucy, to found their company Firestone Sisters in 2012, with the aim of providing others with healing and growth opportunities. She’s been featured in Goop, Well+Good, and Forbes. She resides in California. Learn more at firestonesisters.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1 Transformation 7

Chapter 1 My Story 11

Chapter 2 The Mind, Heart, and Body in Trauma 19

Chapter 3 The Reframe, and Why Now? 25

Part 2 Healing Modalities 43

Chapter 4 Move It! Movement Therapies 47

Chapter 5 Nature! How to Heal Yourself with Scents, Flowers, and Plants 61

Chapter 6 Chinese Medicine 73

Chapter 7 Let's Get Clinical 87

Chapter 8 Into the Great Wide Open! How to Heal Yourself with Mystical Therapies 115

Chapter 9 Integrating Trauma's Gifts 153

Chapter 10 Radiant You 161

Acknowledgments 167

Resources 169

Notes 171

About the Author 177

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