Rebuilding the Garden: Healing the Spiritual Wounds of Childhood Sexual Assault
Another valuable book in assisting us through the journey to wholeness is Karla McLaren's REBUILDING THE GARDEN: Healing the Spiritual Wounds of Childhood Sexual Assault (Laughing Tree Press, $11). Sensitive writing and concrete exercises help us to deal with a range of molestation issues that affect our physical health, emotional well-being, and consciousness of oneness. Often we are not in touch with the underlying traumas that keep us from a sense of being unified in mind, body, soul, and spirit. We feel, McLaren says, as if we are not inhabiting our body, and when that split-off state exists, true healing eludes us. Our vital energy stays hidden.The restoration of our beloved essence, our evolving Self, is McLaren's wonderful gift. --Science of Mind Magazine, February, 1998