Knowing Acts: Engage in Healing

Knowing Acts-Engage in Healing is a customizable workbook and calming practice for emotional balance. It includes 100 pages of full-color beautiful illustration and over 30 easy, pleasant-to-do exercises with music, art, mindfulness, poetry, haiku, and more. There are selections of brave books, websites, podcasts, personal anecdotes, and free resources. Rich with original healing art by Maine watercolorist Linden O'Ryan, Knowing Acts presents a positive new approach for personal healing journeys. Created by trauma survivor Heidi Love on her own healing journey, and thoroughly reviewed, endorsed, and enhanced by numerous trauma experts, Knowing Acts combines art, psychology, and personal experience to support rising above trauma and living life to it's fullest."This inspiring book is a touchstone, a safe harbor to return to again and again as we navigate the courageous journey toward healing." Anne Hallward, MD, Founder and Executive Director, Safe Space Radio, Former Faculty Harvard Medical School, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University Medical School, Exemplary Psychiatrist Award Recipient by the National Alliance of Mental Health.Knowing Acts offers engaging ways to create a calming practice for those suffering from overwhelming emotions and encourages readers to ACT before spiraling down in unhealthy ways. It helps to defuse deep sadness, grief, shame, rage, anger, and feelings of numbness and loss, through an automatic response. It uses a stopgap measure to help trauma, sexual assault, and domestic violence survivors, and those experiencing hardship and loss, move from PTSD, suicidal ideation, or debilitating emotions to places where they can feel calm and restored, and seek professional help. Created by trauma survivors for survivors it includes a customizable workbook to create a plan of ACTS to use during the sudden onset of intrusive thoughts and overwhelming feelings.Thoroughly reviewed and endorsed by trauma and counseling experts, including Dr. Anne Hallward, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Tufts University Medical School, and Dr. Susan Newman Manfull Social Psychologist, it is hailed as a lifesaving resource. If you or someone you know is seeking a healthier approach to overwhelming sadness, grief, anger, rage, or numbness, or recovering from PTSD, suicidal thoughts, trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence, or other hardships, Knowing Acts offers a calming approach to emotional balance and healing."Thoughtful, sensitive, and practical with spot-on personal solutions, this workbook is an exceptionally valuable resource." Dr. Susan Newman Manfull, Social Psychologist"In Knowing Acts Heidi Love has really given survivors of trauma a simple, grounding tool. I absolutely believe the this workbook will be a helpful and perhaps life saving resource for those in crisis." Wendy Hoge LCSW, Therapist"While Heidi's words and understanding create a safety net for a healing journey, the beautiful artwork by Linden O'Ryan adds vibrational energy to truly nurture my soul. As a sexual assault survivor, I am grateful for this workbook and wish that this resource had been available to me when I was in the deep dark recesses of my healing journey. I know that these two women have created an incredible supplement to use in tandem with traditional therapy." Sexual Assault Survivor in Maine"My personal experience as a survivor of violence, and working with hundreds of women over the years, all provided me with a true understanding of how long and hard the road to recovery can be for some. I can see how incorporating Knowing Acts in one's recovery process would be a valuable tool, and of great benefit." Denise D'Amboise, Former Outward Bound Women of Courage Program Manager and Instructor, and former Domestic Violence Advocate Read more