Your Own Wheeling to Healing: A Guide to Healing Yourself and Groups of People Who've Experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

by Reverend James Encinas, Mary L Holden (Editor), Linda Chamberlain PhD (Foreword by)

Overview

James Encinas's first book, Wheeling to Healing...Broken Heart on a Bicycle: Understanding and Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) built a foundation of hope for healing embedded memories of trauma from childhood. The second book, a companion, Your Own Wheeling to Healing, offers readers a way to own their process of healing, and to share it with others.

Selling Points:

• Information and exercises in each of the 26 chapters offer hope for healing in support of the thesis of Encinas's first book, Wheeling to Healing.
• Your Own Wheeling to Healing offers permission to form healing communities and empowers lay persons to create positive change in society.
• Making the essence of ACEs science useful to individuals and informal groups is the motivation behind Encinas's work as a change-maker and thought leader.

Audience:

All readers of Wheeling to Healing who desire a way to put into place a gentle, yet dynamic way to foster healing in people with embedded childhood memories of trauma. Adolescents to senior citizens will find the descriptions and practices accessible and practical whether they use the book as a self-help guide or a curriculum to lead a community group.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946054128
Publisher:	Wheeling to Healing
Publication date:	07/01/2018
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

A former actor and grade school teacher, now a parent education specialist, teacher trainer and public speaker, James Encinas uses his creative skills in experiential workshops to instruct participants about the impact of trauma on childhood development. The non-judgmental space he creates allows probationers to engage in healing their emotional damage, learn about prevention of future child abuse and domestic violence, and to educate teachers to work with students who live in unsafe environments. James wrote Wheeling to Healing...Broken Heart on a Bicycle: Understanding and Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences, a book and a 26-week curriculum. He is a Fellow from the first class of Aspen Institute's Teacher Leaders, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and an activist for healing.

Mary L. Holden has some favorite words: Letter, word, sentence, paragraph, reading, writing. These nouns and gerund forms of verbs represent her life's work, play and passion. Mary's goal as an editor is to uphold a writer's voice on the page and get them to see their manuscript in its best light. Mary offers developmental editing, line and content editing, ghostwriting and proofreading. As a self-employed freelance editor and writer, she's on the editorial staff of the MiniBuk company, and is a co-founder and partner of new72media in Oregon as well as Drafting Your Future in Arizona. She believes in supporting her community through volunteer work and is a member of Local First Arizona. Every year, Mary takes on certain editing projects pro bono. Several of her clients have learned English as their second language, and it has been her honor to assist them as they've developed and published their written work.

Dr. Chamberlain, an epidemiologist specializing in childhood exposure to violence and brain development, is the founding director of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project and a consultant for the Family Violence Prevention Fund. An internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr. Chamberlain is known for her ability to translate science into practical information with diverse audiences. Her passionate belief that everyone can make a difference conveys a message of hope and opportunity. Dr. Chamberlain holds faculty appointments at the University of Alaska and Johns Hopkins University. She earned her public health degree from Yale School of Medicine and her doctorate from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Chamberlain has published extensively and is editor for the e-journal, Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice. She serves on the National Advisory Board for the Institute for Safe Families. Awards and recognition for her work include a National Kellogg Leadership Fellowship. Living on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her husband and dog team, she has developed a highly innovative lecture series on leadership and teamwork called "Lessons from the Trail" and teaches a graduate course on public health and leadership. For her first book, Arctic Inspirations, she traveled from Alaska through the northern Canada and on to Siberia to gather stories of women starting businesses in the Arctic. She is currently working on a book on "Mushing the Mail on the Iditarod Trail."

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword 5

Introduction 7

Creation of Safe Space 11

Brain Development and Function 21

Overview of the ACE Study 27

ACEs and Resilience 35

The Needs and Wants under the Feelings 43

The Power of Observation and Awareness of What’s Hidden 49

Attachment Styles 55

You Are Not Your Traumas 63

Narrating the Future for Your Generations 67

Recognizing Loss and the Process of Grief 75

Kintsukuroi: To Repair by Using Gold 81

Change Is a Process, Not a One-Time Event 85

Heal, Healing, Healed 91

Nonviolence 97

Creativity as a Path to Self-Awareness 103

The Five C Words 111

Culture and Implicit Bias 115

Two Tasks, Two Masks 119

Creating a New Mask 125

Trauma and Theater 129

Role Play Mirror and True Self Mirror 135

You, and You in Relationship 139

Healing with Humor by Seeking Your Clown 143

Lights, Camera, Action, and… Shadow 147

Your Spiritual Truths 155

Past, Present, Hope, Healing 163

Editorial Reviews

In Your Own Wheeling to Healing, a master listener and storyteller provides insights, tools, and exercises that enable you to realize all lives have meaning. The 26 stories teach you to listen, share the story of your path to healing, and acquire skills to help others.

~ Christopher Poulos, 2007 Connecticut Teacher of the Year, Aspen Institute Teacher Leader Fellow, Instructional Leader for the Humanities at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, CT

Understanding and maximizing our human potentials requires being able to recognize and generate a narrative of life's experiences. Here’s a method to unlock the mystery of those experiences—trauma and resilience—to produce healthier individuals and communities.

~ George D. Patrin, M.D., Colonel U.S. Army (Retired), Pediatrician, Healthcare Advocate

Your Own Wheeling to Healing gives people a path to actual healing...not just talking about it or thinking about it, but actually getting to the business of experiencing it. Healing is a journey. This workbook helps make that journey a bit less intimidating! If you’re serious about moving towards healing, this workbook is for you.

~ Mercedes Samudio, LCSW, author of Shame-Proof Parenting, speaker

Your Own Wheeling to Healing meets the needs of tens of thousands of people who manage trauma's effects without access to adequate mental health support. It provides tools and examples to process your life's difficult experiences and get on a path of healing. I believe this book will save lives.

~ Celine Coggins, Ph.D., Lecturer and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education

This guide is a revolution. Use it to inform your healing journey. If you are a leader, create a group to explore how information, tools, and exercises in Your Own Wheeling to Healing creates community.

~ Nora Mackey, paralegal, Los Angeles, CA

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