The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life

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I felt that those who came to these retreats, having read the description and knowing that the retreat would be conducted in silence, were drawn in part by this knowledge. PATH is a culturally adapted program that incorporates a trauma model, positive psychology, and resilience. The adoption process was unexpectedly lengthy and delayed the finalisation of ISRCTN registration, confirmed on 26 July 2011. The subgroup analyses found no evidence of interaction effects between treatment and age, site and setting ( S3 Table). women recruited (78 in shelter/refuge, 185 in community), 2 withdrew (1 community, control group; 1 intervention, refuge group), 1 was excluded from the study for protocol violation (community, control group), 130 in intervention and 130 in control groups.

He consults Tibetan and Chinese physicians, noted psychologists, including Lawrence LeShan, and takes part in an Indian sweat lodge ceremony. Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is a common violation of human rights that damages physical and mental health. Optimal cut-off score for diagnosing depression with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): a meta-analysis. I bought this book as a used paperback, idly curious after having liked Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life, and I’ve actually highlighted and starred sections, something I don’t normally do to my books. Anyone who is or has been seriously ill, knows someone who is, or simply loves good writing, could appreciate this book.

Of the 120/130 participants in the SPA group for whom we have information on adherence, 54 (45%) attended fewer than four sessions, and 66 (55%) attended four or more, which we pre-specified as reflecting adequate adherence. Latino youth (N = 16) recruited from an urban community clinic participated in PATH with their caregiver. Those who came knew that the meals would be eaten in silence and that everyone would be encouraged to maintain a spirit of silence throughout the weekend. If you are going to read a few books about working through your pain/hurt issues, you should put this book on the top of the stack.

Hearing his story of trauma and how he not only survived but thrived in life is incredibly encouraging.As specified in advance for the primary analyses at 12 months, we analysed groups as randomised, conducting linear regression analyses for continuous, and logistic regression analyses for binary outcomes. DVA can be physical, sexual, psychological and economic, perpetrated by a partner, ex-partner or adult family member. Men and women living in the surrounding villages would follow these solitary seekers into the desert and ask to receive from them a “word. The surprising thing is that the intimate healing that spirituality brings into our lives is often hidden in the muck and mire of the very things about ourselves we wish were not true. The meanings of cultural competence in mental health: An exploratory focus group study with patients, clinicians, and administrators.

Both groups remain stable around the initial reductions over the intervening eight months, suggesting that intervention participants sustain the relative improvement ( S1 Fig).

Does stage of change predict improved intimate partner violence outcomes following an emergency department intervention? As you continue on this way, I hope that you will continue to discover, in all sorts of unexpected ways, that you are becoming a healing presence in an all-too often traumatized and traumatizing world. Not sure where I will go with this book in terms of leaders and servants in the flock, but it surely deserves a broad reading as it is still relevant 20 years after its writing.