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When Wounding Strikes the Soul
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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:
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.
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