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Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma + Recovery
"In Mending Broken Teresa Mateus (previously Teresa B Pasquale) goes where only the bravest writers to the deepest and most true layer of experience. She takes this journey with honesty, insight and grace. You will learn things about yourself in these pages, which is what I always hope for in a book.”
Michele Rosenthal, author of Before the World Intruded + founder of www.healmyptsd.com
After four years in the darkness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Teresa woke up--in slow and painful fits and starts. Like a process of birthing and with the sensation of tearing wide open, she was given life again.
The essays and reflections in mending broken form a brief composite; with the eye of a therapist who has studied the academics and mechanics of trauma for years, and with the personal experience of a survivor, like any other, Teresa takes you on the journey of one woman trying to find her way out of painful darkness, and into the light of healing and recovery.
" This book is so helpful as it speaks from the heart. Reading this you'll emerge knowing you can be whole and fully alive, no matter what has happened in the past. We are blessed when people like Teresa B Pasquale, offering us the intimacy of their story, courage and healing - it shines light on the path of our journey. Teresa contributes a great deal by introducing us to her unlikely guides and teachers. Mending Broken will guide you to your own light and then you'll shine it for others too."
Durga Leela, BA, CAS, PKS, RYT-500, founder of “Yoga of Recovery”
Michele Rosenthal, author of Before the World Intruded + founder of www.healmyptsd.com
After four years in the darkness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Teresa woke up--in slow and painful fits and starts. Like a process of birthing and with the sensation of tearing wide open, she was given life again.
The essays and reflections in mending broken form a brief composite; with the eye of a therapist who has studied the academics and mechanics of trauma for years, and with the personal experience of a survivor, like any other, Teresa takes you on the journey of one woman trying to find her way out of painful darkness, and into the light of healing and recovery.
" This book is so helpful as it speaks from the heart. Reading this you'll emerge knowing you can be whole and fully alive, no matter what has happened in the past. We are blessed when people like Teresa B Pasquale, offering us the intimacy of their story, courage and healing - it shines light on the path of our journey. Teresa contributes a great deal by introducing us to her unlikely guides and teachers. Mending Broken will guide you to your own light and then you'll shine it for others too."
Durga Leela, BA, CAS, PKS, RYT-500, founder of “Yoga of Recovery”
116 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 4, 2012
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About the author
Teresa Mateus
4 books8 followersTeresa Mateus, LCSW, E-RYT 200 (she/her/hers) is a trauma therapist, meditation & yoga teacher, author and speaker. She is the co-founder and ED of The Mystic Soul Project & co-founder of TRACC4Movements (trauma response and crisis care for movements). Her previous books are Mending Broken: A Journey Through the Stages of Trauma + Recovery & Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma.
Her current book coming out through Mystic Soul Press is Going Naked: The Camino de Santiago & Life as Pilgrimage set for release in October 15, 2019.
She also has a work in progress titled Micro-Aggressions of My Youth: Life at the Intersection of Ethnic & Cultural Identities as an Indo-Latinx Adoptee (forthcoming 2020/21).
Her current book coming out through Mystic Soul Press is Going Naked: The Camino de Santiago & Life as Pilgrimage set for release in October 15, 2019.
She also has a work in progress titled Micro-Aggressions of My Youth: Life at the Intersection of Ethnic & Cultural Identities as an Indo-Latinx Adoptee (forthcoming 2020/21).
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