Healing the Great Divide

N.E.C. Iankowitz

Description

Much like Aesop's Fables and tales by Hans Christian Anderson, Healing the Great Divide delivers powerful messages that delight readers in search of truth.
Healing the Great Divide delivers poignant messages and truths designed to facilitate self-healing. The reader is encouraged to embrace self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-love. Through analogy and metaphor, the author validates the reader, offering avenues of respite utilizing short stories to help traverse obstacles to personal growth. Characters decode the complexity of life, strengthening our ability to be courageous enough to challenge secret struggles and inner conflict. Exquisite poetry offers skills to cope with division caused by family estrangement, encouraging the reader to unabashedly reframe choices that interfere with relationship success. Healing the Great Divide inspires inner balance and heartfelt happiness – in particular, to those whose self-esteem has been negatively impacted by childhood trauma. Essays empower us to dissolve shame and boldly engage in gentle self-reflection. Short stories nurture confidence to unearth differences between self-care and self-sabotage. Pages of poetry create a safe space to assess the destructive nature of self-absorption, emotional unavailability, bitterness, and entitlement. The reader learns how to dissolve that which distracts from personal satisfaction, gratitude, harmony, and love. Negativity in its many forms is exposed. The author offers interventions to neutralize that which interferes with effective communication. Characters journey fearlessly in their pursuit of inner peace and joy. Each page helps the reader build personal confidence to heal internal wounds. Short stories and poetry insightfully illuminate time's perpetual debate between misery and joy. Validation resuscitates the reader’s ability to fulfill unique potential. Spiritual growth is palpable. As honest self-reflection is mastered, we begin to own our right to set safe, healthy boundaries. Intertwined throughout the pages of this book are awakenings capable of repairing a soul that suffers in silence.

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 06 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665563253
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Healing the Great Divide
 
 
 
 
N.E.C. Iankowitz
 
© 2022 N.E.C. Iankowitz. All rights reserved.
 
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Cover Artist: Eitan Iankowitz
 
 
 
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6326-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6325-3 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022911564
 
 
 
Published by AuthorHouse 07/05/2022
 
 
 
 

Other Books by This Author
Marcy and Her Friends
Conversations with Our Daughters
Tales of The Soil
Shadows of The Soul
Other Articles & Essays by This Author
Feeding Positive Energy Throughout the COVID-19 Holiday Season
Hunkering Down During COVID-19
The Stress and Strain of COVID-19 on Relationships
Parenthood: a Continuing Journey
Finding Your Joy
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Approach to Self-Care
The Deep Dive for Love
Second Childhood - The Intangible Spirit
How Your Hobby May Heal You
Holiday Health and Wellness
Relationship Gone Sour: Parents and Adult Children (Getting Back on Track)
Building Lasting Relationships
Protecting Our Children from Our Anxiety
Congestive Heart Failure: A Functional Medicine Approach
Lifestyle Tools That Become Lifelong Lifesaving Gifts
Caring For Aging Parents
Refilling the Empty Nest with Dignity and Grace
When the Foods You Love Don’t Love You Back
You Are Probably Dehydrated If . . .
Safety in the Summer Sun
Dedication
With heartfelt gratitude for investment of time, energy, editorial comments, support,
and so much more, I dedicate this book to . . .
Eitan , for your original artwork, personal fortitude, and inspiration – all of which made this collection possible. Our journey continues; Mom and Dad, for decades of spiritual guidance – you have always been and continue to be present and encouraging; Jess , for your mentorship, friendship, strength of character, and perspective. I would be lost without you.
Foreword
This book, unlike most literary works, is best read not from cover-to-cover; but rather, by initially reviewing the ‘Table of Contents’ to see what calls out to you. Among the myriad thoughts presented, go first to that which speaks to you in that moment, as that is the initial piece for which your spirit is ready. If you allow it, this book will speak truth to your soul. If you’re a skimmer or headline reader, I suggest you begin with the poster section at the end.
This is a journey of healing; powerful, penetrating, poignant and wonderful. Long needed and now available, this is a book of therapeutic insights and poetry for the ages – a companion on any therapist’s desk.
A Note about The Reader’s Guide at the end . . . to my therapist colleagues, it offers various sections grouped for particular therapy goals. For couples struggling with emotional unavailability, it serves as a therapeutic guide; to the Researcher/Therapist, it deals with the human condition.
~ Dr. Daniel Cohen, APA life member, Fellow RSMH (Eng.), Director Emeritus N.Y. Testing and Guidance Center (1962-1990)
Preface
Among the tasks assigned to this collection, Healing the Great Divide is intended to provide inspiration to each reader. With original works never before published, as well as a few selections from Tales of The Soil, Shadows of The Soul, and Illusion: Redefined , this book is offered with sincere hope that it brings comfort, validation, peace of mind, and centeredness of spirit. Connection with inner truth cleanses the soul. When positive energy flows, joy charges our essence. Potential is fulfilled when happiness is victorious over misery during internal battles. When we live our truth, we choose love over isolation, and see the world through the lens of acceptance, compassion, and gratitude. Please check the self-help guide at the end, particularly for tools to heal relationships impacted by adults who survived childhood trauma.
Thank you for your time and interest. My most fervent prayer is that you, and all lives you touch, experience and pay forward healing as a result of one or more selections within this book.
                                                         Namaste,
                                                          N.E.C. Iankowitz DNP, RN, FNP-BC
                                                         ANCC Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
                                                         Holistic and Integrative Healing LLC, Director
Contents
Perspective
You’ve Arrived . . .
Taming The Horned Viper Within
Gifts of the Soul
Don’t & Do
Leaving Toyland Behind
New Love
Battle for Your Soul
Beware the Enabler
Fury In My Gaze
Absent
Starting Over
Just Fix It
Finding Your Joy
The Way
Acceptance?
Unclenching
Unfolding
Spirit Speak
Newlyweds, Again
Glimpses Through the Tapestry
Journey
Forever
Longing
Date Night in The Blend
A Magical ‘Patch of Woods’
Angel Song (Part 1)
Angel Song (Part 2)
Today
Happy Birthday Mom
Happy Mother’s Day
On a Child’s Passing
Father and Son
Over, Around, or Through
RepairingRelationships
Sailing Through Time
On Love
Growing Together
When It’s for Love
Finally, Me
Reawakening
The Lens
Magic Reclaimed
Reinventing Our Life
Counseled by The Universe
The Path
Crystal Vase
Second Time Around
Balance
Recipe for Communication
Onward Together
Used / Abused
How to See
Conflict Resolution – Achieved or Missed?
A Mother’s Prayer
Always Successful
The Elephants In Your Head
Treasure Vibrations
Paths We Take –What We Forsake
Changing Seasons
Questions
Introspection
Centering of Spirit
Flying From the Nest
Reaching Through the Clouds
Now We Can Begin
Free to Be Me
Dissolving Illusions
Secrets Unearthed
Surviving a Toxic Childhood
Living With a Survivor of Childhood Trauma
Twisted
Brainwashed
The Dark Room
The Beauty Salon
Speak Your Truth
Humiliation
The Carpenter
Father’s Shame
Wooden Nickel
Rage Mountain
Looking Back
Recall & Repair
Clear Eyed
All Families Are Made Up of Complex Personalities
Our Journey Back to Us
This Is Now
Becoming
Wisdom From the Pond & Creatures Beyond
Beyond the Hatching
Destiny
Of The Meadow
I Am Enough
Each Has a Place in The Meadow
Tadpole and Fish
Earthworm and Caterpillar
Butterfly and Honey Bee
Ori
Feeling You’re Still Here
Spiral of Time
Posters
General Topics – Readers’ Overview
Childhood Trauma – Impact on Adult Life
The Author’s Retrospective


You’ve Arrived . . .
When the days you wonder if you should get out of bed
are met by you with courage, and you face the world instead . . .
When distracting strands of toxic thoughts invade your mind,
but you take charge, collect yourself, and discipline you find . . .
When events that threaten joy can’t overtake your mood . . .
When you keep perspective though you’re blamed by those who brood . . .
When you hold yourself to standards higher than the rest;
regardless of who’s watching, you still do your very best . . .
When the words of strangers who spew hatred don’t offend . . .
When you trust your instincts to unmask those who pretend . . .
When you choose to live your truth, with both eyes open wide . . .
When you can be your best friend without a need to hide . . .
When you can be generous, yet keep some for yourself . . .
When you give and know when to put ‘giving’ on the shelf . . .
When your guide is honesty; you look you in the eye . . .
When you have the valor to dissolve each self-taught lie . . .
When you disagree with someone who’s dear to your heart,
then you self-reflect whether together or apart . . .
When you pay each blessing forward and don’t advertise . . .
When you listen deeply and don’t gossip or advise . . .
When you know your value yet stay caring, kind, and humble . . .
When your hand, extended, lifts another who may stumble . . .
When your heart is open chakra, thoughtful, honest, fair . . .
When you’re cautious – just enough, yet strong enough to dare . . .
When you can be ‘present’ even when you walk away . . .
When you have the courage to trust ‘vibes’ through what ‘they say’. . .
When you’re not ‘entitled’ but still know what you deserve,
and temper your emotions clinging to that last raw nerve . . .
When you realize you broke the heart of one you love
and make it your priority: repair; both rise above . . .
When you recognize your tendency to self-abuse –
then toss out noxious patterns you no longer need to use . . .
When you view the ones who traumatized your years of yout