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Releasing Your Authentic Self

12/27/2017

Are You a Survivor
of Child Abuse or Trauma?
If so, this Book
was Written for YOU!

Releasing Your Authentic Self

A Daily Guide to Help
Child Abuse and Trauma Survivors
Rediscover Themselves

by Svava Brooks

$14.95 Paperback (live Amazon link)
$9.95 Kindle ebook (live Amazon link)

(381 pages)

Child abuse teaches you to disconnect from your “authentic self.” It’s the only way to survive the trauma of abuse. Because of that, adult survivors need to dig deep to reconnect with who they truly are, because their real identity has been hidden for decades.

And that’s why I wrote Releasing Your Authentic Self. I wanted to give you a very special tool to help you do just that!

In this life-changing book for child abuse and trauma survivors, you’ll receive a tiny piece of your “truth” every day for 365 days. Each truth is followed by two questions, which encourage you to dig deep enough to rediscover your beautiful, authentic self.

Feel free to write your answers to these questions directly in the book like a workbook. I’ve left plenty of room after each question for you to do that.

These questions were created to bypass the resistance of your conscious mind and reveal your toxic core issues. Every time you eliminate a core issue, you’re one step closer to releasing your authentic self.

If you’re ready to do the deep, hard work of emotional healing, Releasing Your Authentic Self is the tool you’ve been searching for. Nothing is more exciting than rediscovering that incredible, unique, awesomely wonderful person you were destined to be. Much love to you on this amazing journey!

What Are Readers Saying About Books by Svava Brooks?

“Journey to the Heart is a well-written, supportive, and gentle work to help anyone with trauma in their past learn how to live a thriving life in the present.” (E.K.)

“I am grateful for Journey to the Heart and its author, Svava Brooks. This book is filled with so much compassion and understanding that only another trauma survivor is able to put into words. Bought a copy for myself and gave a copy as a gift to my therapist to share with her other clients. I highly recommend this book.” (A.)

“This woman totally gets it. Bottom line, this author will hold your hand as you work through the dark places, and you will KNOW that those feelings cannot hurt you now, so you are free to develop into the person who has been struggling to show itself!” (D.)

Isn’t it time you began living your life
as the happy, healthy person
you were always meant to be?

Order this Life-Changing Book TODAY!

Releasing Your Authentic Self

A Daily Guide to Help
Child Abuse and Trauma Survivors
Rediscover Themselves

by Svava Brooks

$14.95 Paperback (live Amazon link)
$9.95 Kindle ebook (live Amazon link)

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Are you a survivor of abuse or trauma? Are you struggling with your healing journey? I can help! If you are ready to start "Thriving" I have just the support for you. If you are ready to do the deep, hard work of healing and create lasting change, succeed by joining a community of people just like you working through the RYAS book, one day at a time. You are worth it! Follow this link to learn more

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Do You Believe You Can Heal?

6/6/2017

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Recently, I heard there are 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. That number is probably much higher, because some survivors never tell anyone about their abusive past.

Most survivors spend years (maybe decades) thinking about the past before we find the courage to tell someone about it. When the brain continually focuses on the trauma from an abusive past, it just makes the pain worse. It’s the major cause of our suffering.

That’s why to heal from the past you have to believe you can heal.

Yes, feeling the pain, sitting with it, acknowledging it, allowing it to express itself in a healthy way, and releasing it from your body is one of the first steps on the healing journey. Until you do that, you’ll never completely heal.

However, you can’t remain in this step forever. At some point, your heart will let you know it’s time to move forward to the next step on your healing journey. If you don’t, fear will take over and try to convince you that you’ll never heal. To conquer this fear, you must believe healing is possible.

And that’s my question for you today. Do you really, honestly believe you can heal?

We can never go back and undo the trauma from our abusive past. The damage is done. But you can move forward to the next step on your healing journey. You do that by choosing to heal.

Everyone’s healing journey is unique. We all move forward at a different pace. Some steps on your healing journey will come easily for you, and you’ll accomplish them quickly. Others will take weeks or months to work through. Everyone is different.

The best way to defeat your fears and continue moving forward is to use your own life as proof. Look back to where you were a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago. You’ve come a long way, haven’t you?

Yes, you can heal! Just look at your life. That’s all the proof you’ll need.
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Are you stuck on your healing journey? Do you feel like you’ve plateaued out, and you’re not moving forward anymore? If so, I can help. Just follow (this link) or call 619-889-6366 to reserve a one-hour coaching session with me ($100 per hour). Let me help you heal your life. Reserve your spot TODAY!

Have you read my bestselling book, “Journey to the Heart”? If you’re ready to heal from the effects of abuse or trauma (depression, anxiety, PTSD, allergies, chronic pain, etc.), this book is for YOU!! You’ll find it at Amazon in paperback (link) or Kindle (link). Enjoy and happy reading!

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What’s the Big Surprise on the Healing Journey?

1/2/2017

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Last week’s blog post about “oneness” touched many of you, so I wanted to continue this week by exploring another aspect of that theme.

As you practice oneness, you begin to realize we’re connected not only to each other but also to God (Divine Love). Suddenly, it makes perfect sense that we’re here to learn about love and to experience love. However, you can only experience love when you’re connected. Why? Because love is an active process: you’re either giving love or receiving love or both.

Child abuse disconnects you from love. You were hurt by those who claimed to love you. You were hurt by those you loved. Because love hurt, we distanced ourselves from love to survive the abuse.

The healing journey is all about learning how to reconnect with love. We do that by reconnecting with ourselves, others, and God.

But that’s easier said than done, isn’t it? Disconnecting from love makes you feel unlovable, and this toxic thought cripples your adult relationships. For example, I was married for 12 years before I could trust my husband enough to believe he wasn’t going to leave me. Sad, but true.

Before I could learn how to trust and connect with him in a loving way, I had to trust and connect with myself. The only way to do that was to connect with my inner child.

Yikes! Not an easy task for me. I didn’t like her. I didn’t know what to do with her. How was I supposed to love this needy, angry, hurt child? I was clueless.

But I kept working on it, practicing self-love and self-compassion. Slowly, I began to accept the parts of myself I felt were unlovable. This helped me connect with other people. I could see we’re all struggling in one way or another. I’d never realized that before. I thought I was the only one. Now I know I’m not.

Safe relationships in support groups or with loved ones help us practice these new oneness skills. They teach us to take responsibility for ourselves in our relationships.

And that’s one of the big surprises on the healing journey. Think about it. When we were children, abusive relationships hurt us. As adults, safe relationships heal us. Wow. Who knew, right? Surprise!

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Are your relationships driving you crazy? Are you having a difficult time applying the concept of oneness to your personal relationships? Don’t worry. I can help! Just follow (this link) or call 619-889-6366 to reserve a one-hour coaching session with me ($100). Let me help you heal your life. Reserve your spot NOW!

Don’t have time for a coaching session? No problem! My book, JOURNEY TO THE HEART, was created to be a coaching session in book form. How cool is that?! You’ll find this Amazon #1 bestseller in paperback at: http://amzn.to/2gm7DSx or in Kindle at: http://tinyurl.com/jzuq5u7

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I Just Made Your Healing Journey Easier!

12/19/2016

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Now that my first book, Journey to the Heart, is published and on sale, I’ve been asked to talk a little about why I wrote it. Actually, I had three reasons for writing this book, and YOU were the inspiration for each one!

First, many of my coaching clients have asked me what I would do or have done when I faced the really hard parts of my healing journey. Healing from trauma and abuse is always messy. We often wish we had someone to hold our hand, tell us what to do, and guide us through the tough stuff. Now you do. That’s what Journey to the Heart is about.

Second, thriving is an important part of healing. But when I got to that point, I didn’t know what to do. Thrive? What’s that? Thriving is a lifestyle. Like all abused children, I’d never been taught this valuable skill. Journey to the Heart shows you all the steps I took to teach myself how to thrive. Now you have the roadmap that I never had.

Finally, healing from trauma and abuse isn’t a straight line. It’s a circular, organic process. It’s made up of hundreds of little truths we must absorb to continue to move forward on our healing journey. This doesn’t happen overnight. You have to keep coming back to those truths and absorbing their message, until they sink deeply into your heart and soul. This is how you transform your life. Journey to the Heart gathers all those truths together for you in one, handy, convenient place.

And that’s why I wrote this book: I wrote it for YOU! When I found a way to heal from trauma and abuse, I vowed I would show other survivors how to heal, too. There’s no need for you to spend years searching for answers like I did. Now the answers are in one place, and it’s called Journey to the Heart.

If you don’t have a copy yet, here’s where you’ll find it!

Kindle ebook: (link)
Paperback: (link)

By the way, I’ve been hearing from people around the world, who have bought the book (US, UK, Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, etc.). I’m charting its worldwide path on a map. What fun, right? If you buy the book, send me an email or a Facebook message and tell me which state and/or country you live in, and I’ll add you to the map!

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Are you a survivor of abuse or trauma? Are you tired of struggling alone on your healing journey? If so, I can help! Just follow (this link) or call 619-889-6366 to reserve a one-hour coaching session with me ($100). Let me help you heal your life. Reserve your spot NOW!

Are you on my email list? If you’d like to receive my empowering monthly newsletter and an email with a link to my weekly blog post, click here: http://www.educate4change.com/

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