PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork

"Nightmares, especially ones caused by trauma, not only disrupt your sleep but can also leave you exhausted and distressed. With in-depth information on the nature of nightmares, author and psychotherapist Linda Yael Schiller shows you how to turn distressing or heart pounding dreams into resources for spiritual growth. Armed with effective techniques, you can address conscious and unconscious fears to safely heal post-traumatic nightmares and their root causes. Linda teaches the Guided Active Imagination Approach (GAIA), a method she developed based on best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination principles. You will learn how to apply integrated and embodied dreamwork techniques as well as somatic, narrative, and psychospiritual approaches. PTSDreams helps you transform nightmares into a new story: one of hope, healing, and life-affirming images"--
Nightmares, especially those caused by trauma, not only disrupt your sleep but can leave you exhausted and on edge, haunting your daylight hours. With in-depth information on the nature of nightmares, international speaker, author, and psychotherapist Linda Yael Schiller shows you how to turn anxiety-filled or heart-pounding dreams into resources for spiritual growth. Her four decades of experience in both dreamwork and trauma treatment provide the reader with guidelines for turning PTSDreams into PTSG: Post Trauma Spiritual Growth. Armed with effective techniques and Linda’s warm compassionate voice, you can learn to safely heal post-traumatic nightmares and their root causes. She teaches the Guided Active Imagination Approach (GAIA), a method she developed based on best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination principles. Through compelling case descriptions and thoughtful exercises, you will learn how to apply a multiplicity of integrated and embodied dreamwork techniques as well as somatic, narrative, and psycho-spiritual approaches. Combining neuroscience, healing, mysticism, and creativity, PTSDreams helps you transform nightmares into a new story: one of hope, healing, and life-affirming images.