When Wounding Strikes the Soul

When Wounding Strikes the Soul

A Gentle Journey Toward Embodiment and Wholeness After Spiritual Trauma

by A. C. Seiple

When Wounding Strikes the Soul
Paperback
$20.99
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.5 in
  • Published: April 20, 2027
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9781514018521

A Compassionate Companion for Healing from Spiritual Trauma

Spiritual trauma or harm doesn't just live in your mind. It settles into your body, your emotions, and your sense of self. When Wounding Strikes the Soul offers you a warm, therapeutic pathway to access, process, and move through that pain, however your healing journey unfolds.

Written by therapist A. C. Seiple, this book draws on both clinical insight and personal experience to gently meet you where trauma actually lives: in your gut, your emotions, and your embodied experience. Through raw personal reflections, therapeutic poetry, and invitations to embodied practice, Seiple gently guides you toward reconnecting with your body, reclaiming your voice, and cultivating hope and wholeness.

What you'll find in When Wounding Strikes the Soul:

  • Therapeutic poetry written to help you access your emotions
  • Embodied practices designed to reconnect you with your body
  • A trauma-informed approach offering insight from both professional and lived experience
  • Reflection questions designed for individual contemplation or group discussion


When Wounding Strikes the Soul is your invitation to reconnect with your body's wisdom and gain practical tools for your healing journey. If you've felt stuck in your healing process, disconnected from your own body or emotions, or silenced by spiritual harm, this book offers you a gentle place to begin again.

CONTENTS

Before You Begin
Grounding Practices to Enter and Exit the Pages Ahead

Part I: Pain Makes Her Way to the Surface

Opening
Invitation: Exploring Structured and Free Movements

Everyday Reminders
Invitation: Linking and Unlinking Cues

Waves of Grief
Invitation: Invoking Voice

Part II: The Voices We Trust

Emotions Are Honest
Invitation: Authentic Expressions

Our Bodies Haven't Been Trusted
Invitation: Parsing Through Mixed Messages

Who to Listen to?
Invitation: Choice and Consent

Part III: When Control Is in the Fabric

Looking Back
Invitation: Both-And

Levels of Control
Invitation: Releasing Control's Grip

The Underbelly
Invitation: External and Internal Forms

Part IV: Responding to Harm

Reactions
Invitation: Was I Seen?

Bridging Then and Now
Invitation: Connecting with Our Younger Selves

Holistic Health and Harm
Invitation: Nourishing Neglected Bodies

Part V: Unraveling

Left to Pick Up the Pieces
Invitation: Construct and Reconstruct

Still Practicing and Done
Invitation: Embodying Internal Conflict

Autonomy, Shame, and Doubt
Invitation: Tapping into Inner Wisdom

Part VI: New Light

And Still, It Hurts
Invitation: Exploring Lost and New Supports

Survival and Safety
Invitation: Titrating to the Warmth of Safety

Whole-Bodied Connection
Invitation: Whole-Body Freedom

[Closing Poem]
Afterword
Additional Resources
Notes
Reflection Questions
Resources for Continued Exploration

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Anna C. Seiple

Anna Christine (A. C.) Seiple is a licensed counselor, retreat leader, and researcher. She holds two master’s degrees—one in clinical mental health counseling and one in ancient languages—and is the author of The Sacred Art of Slowing Down. She is currently a postgraduate researcher at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, exploring ancient contemplative practices and present-day mindfulness interventions.