Walking the medicine wheel
Subtitle: healing trauma & PTSD
By: David R. Kopacz MD & Joseph Rael MA (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
Contributors: Rael, Joseph, author
Publisher: Pointer Oak; Millichap Books/Pointer Oak
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781937462321
Subjects: Mental health; Psychic trauma; Traditional medicine; Indians of North America; Veterans; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Treatment; Medicine; Popular works
Other titles: Healing trauma & PTSD; Healing trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
Description: The authors--a psychiatrist and holistic and integrative medicine physician and a Native American visionary--present how to use the circular pathway of the medicine wheel to re-train the nervous system of our returning veterans suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Table of contents: title: War, trauma, and PTSD. War ; Dimensions of trauma & PTSD ; Innovations in treating trauma & PTSD ; Joseph Rael's view of trauma & PTSD; title: Healing trauma & PTSD with the medicine wheel. The healing circle of the medicine wheel ; The wheel of life creation ; Medicine wheel & wheel of life creation exercises ; The role of suffering in initiation and healing ; Soldier's heart ; Walking the medicine wheel and healing PTSD; title: Returning home to peace. Coming home to peace ; Ceremony ; Community and caregiving ; Return to the held-back place of goodness.