The Journey of a Wounded Healer by Carol L. Chambers

This is a brave and courageous book, written by a woman who navigated the unknown lands of undiagnosed mental illness for over 6 decades. Her experiences of despair and hopelessness throughout those years eventually left her in a place of anxiety and depression that nearly took her life. With insight and self-compassion, she reveals a journey of a terrifying childhood, cycles of profound depression and anxiety, anorexia, addiction, spiritual anguish, and eventual diagnoses. From all this arose a profound yearning for coherence, wholeness and healing. Her spiritual explorations were many; and, she speaks honestly of her troubled relationship with conservative Christianity and, decades later, her discovery of the freedom of Energy Healing, the practice of Reiki, the wonders of the supernatural world of Celtic mystery and magic, and the profound sacred transformation of the restorative practices of ancient Shamanism.