Tara Hunt offers her story of healing from trauma as a gift to others who are on a healing journey. She presents the most helpful tools and concepts she has applied in her own healing work. Her stunning illustrations capture the essence of each chapter, for example:

Loving Ourselves; Slowing Down; Touching; Writing Ourselves; Reaching Out

Tara’s aim for her book is to present the tools and concepts for healing from emotional wounding in a logical sequence that builds on itself. To create in one place the resource she wishes she’d had access to back when she started her journey of recovery from emotional trauma.

Visual artist Gillian McCulloch knows well the healing trauma journey and praises Tara’s step-by-step approach, which guides the reader from creating safe space and boundaries to reconnecting to and reclaiming one’s body and then how to slowly move out to fully engage in the world again.

Adult literacy specialist Lise de Villiers in the Foreword praises Tara for her courage in writing this book: “She has been brave enough to be vulnerable, always writes from a place of truth, and is inclusive enough to be fair in her analysis of others.”

Lise found the chapter entitled “Slowing Down” instructive for showing how we can reclaim our emotions, become aware of and accept our woundedness, and undo our conditioning.

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Tara Hunt has an Honours’ Bachelor of Science in Biology, and completed her coursework for a Master's degree in Communication. Following Jack London's advice to aspiring authors to,” first, lead an interesting life,” Tara lived in different parts of North America, studied with various spiritual teachers, and worked at many jobs, including: college writing Instructor, national park naturalist, museum curator, freelance photographer and writer, library assistant, store clerk, house painter, bricklayer, clam digger, cook, waitress, leather worker, and finally, started her own business designing and creating jewelry, leathercrafts, and art. She and her husband, Keith Spears, live by the ocean in rural Nova Scotia, and keep their home-based business going by selling at a local Farmer's Market, and at a few local fairs and stores. You can contact Tara at: tara.hunt@gmail.com

A touching book that takes the reader through the stages of pain to healing. With gentleness and courage, the author offers insights and experiences that helped her journey from trauma to a healthier and happier life. Using words and beautiful art, she helps us understand generational trauma with compassion for ourselves and others. - Jamie Alcorn, Ginner Food Systems Administrator, Truro, Nova Scotia

The book is lovely, the art is incredible, and the author gives so many varied tips and tools for the healing journey. The book has it all, and is delivered with love, experience, and cultivated wisdom, which results from following the process of healing the heart. - Kathi Ryan, Registered Massage Therapist, NIA Dance Instructor, Country Harbour, Nova Scotia

A refreshingly frank discussion of a healing trauma journey. The author gives us step-by-step suggestions for trauma healing, from creating safe space and boundaries to reconnecting to and reclaiming one’s body, and then how to slowly move out to fully engage with the world again.

- Gillian McCulloch, Visual Artist, “Nipped in the Bud – Healing from Childhood Sexual Trauma”