Reclaiming Trust

Reclaiming Trust- is a therapeutic storytelling that contains key questions about your trust levels designed to lead the reader to find renewed trust after experiencing trauma. This story is thirteen chapters transforming my past. In my childhood, I learned things about relationships that were not absolutely true. I made decisions as a child that shaped my mind and caused me to create, and re-create again the drama and dysfunction from my childhood into my adult life. Each chapter in...
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Reclaiming Trust- is a therapeutic storytelling that contains key questions about your trust levels designed to lead the reader to find renewed trust after experiencing trauma. This story is thirteen chapters transforming my past. In my childhood, I learned things about relationships that were not absolutely true. I made decisions as a child that shaped my mind and caused me to create, and re-create again the drama and dysfunction from my childhood into my adult life. Each chapter in Reclaiming Trust is split into two parts. One part lived experience and one part healing where I deconstruct and discard decisions about my previous experience. I think I have balanced the writing with love and humour. Reclaiming Trust - A Personal Journey Out of Family & Domestic Violence is a story about a journey from traumatic experience to trust and self-love. This book explores the question: How to find self-love and trust again?I don't think any one sets out wanting FDV. Before COVID-19 It was expected that FDV would cost the Australian economy $15.6 billion in 2021-22 (DCP, 2014, p. 9). During covid19 globally FDV has risen by 30%.In my opinion, FDV is an intergenerational issue. FDV is handed down through generations, FDV happens over lifetimes: repeated. Writing is a wonderful healing art and I have used writing to make right, I have changed the names in my writing to protect the people and changing my own name and choosing a characters name served to disassociate from old storylines that were not helpful or empowering. Instead of having therapy sessions, I trained in Natural Therapies that I found helpful, such as, Breath work, Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). I have included these learning experiences in this writing. Through the use of breath work, Hypnotherapy, NLP, dancing, creative imagination and other natural therapies Anna discovers herself. She finds that she is not a victim: she can change her mind and move towards a life of trust, accomplishment, creative expression and joy. This story is thirteen chapters of Anna transforming her past through family and self-exploration, connecting her thought processes consciously and unconsciously. In all sorts of adventures Anna moves into her memories and firmly held beliefs to discover that she learned things and made decisions in her childhood that shaped her mind and caused her to create, and re-create again the drama and dysfunction from her childhood into her adult life. Each chapter is split into two parts. One part lived experience and one part healing where she is deconstruction and discarding decisions about experience, both parts interwoven into the story line. The healing sessions in each chapter include Breath work, hypnosis, dancing, and creative imagination, all embedded in a story and balance with light and humour because life always brings those qualities. The Author, Jennipher McDonald has trained in Natural Therapies for the past 30 years. She is a Breath worker, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Neuro Linguistic Programming Trainer and Life Coach, as well as a facilitator of Theatre for Living (a social justice theatre practice). Jennipher has healed her past and is currently studying and researching her PhD at Curtin University, Perth Western Australia. titled "Reclaiming Agency through Embodied Performance: After Intergenerational Family and Domestic Violence." The key question driving both the performance and the exegesis asks: How can "Theatre for Living" (TFL) techniques and Somatic Practices transform the oppression that comes from the lived experience of Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) into self-agency and performance?