Christine Hibbard PhD - The Heart of Healing: From Trauma to Health and Harmony

THE HEART OF HEALING

From Trauma to Health and Harmony

CHRISTINE HIBBARD, PHD

Copyright 2017 Christine Hibbard, PhD.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-7000-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-7001-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-6999-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016919548

Balboa Press rev. date: 12/09/2016

Contents

Praise for the Heart of Hea ling

On this pilgrimage of spirit and service, Chris Hibbard learns transformational lessons of acceptance, surrender, and love. And we, her fellow travelers, learn them along with her.

James S. Gordon, MD, author of Unstuck , and founder and executive director for the Center for Mind-Body Medi cine

Chris Hibbard has written a wise and tender account of her quest to understand, experience, and offer healinga journey that has taken her across the globe. If you are on your own journey of spiritual growth and healing, you could not ask for a more experienced, compassionate, and loving guide and companion than Chris in this beautiful me moir.

Rev. Diane Berke, founder and spiritual director, One Spirit Interfaith Semi nar y

The Heart of Healing is both wise and literate. I couldnt stop reading it! Through a set of powerful stories with profound insights, we meet real people and actual situations that leave us with unforgettable lessons about life, death, and mea ning.

Mark Gerzon, president of Mediators Foundation and author of The Reunited States of America: H ow We Can Bridge the Partisan Di vide

Dr. Chris Hibbard, a skilled trauma therapist, invites us to read her compassionate stories from traumatized people of war zones. She includes her own personal journey in trauma recovery and artfully leads us toward meaningful insights about healing. Read this book and gently engage your own healing while you are generously supported by Chriss distinctive voice for transformational wisdom in our own lives and around the w orld.

Diane Poole Heller, PhD, author of Crash Course , trau ma therapist and tTrainer, and creator of D ARe

In this remarkable book, Dr. Chris Hibbard has opened her heart and mind with deep spiritual insights that help us do the same. Her personal story is woven in and out with the stories of real people around the world who are dealing with the pain and suffering of war to bring healing. As she lives with her own pain and does her own healing, she helps those she works with as they bring light, love, and hope to people in war-torn parts of our world. Dr. Hibbard has written this book with such compassion and understanding that we, the readers, see that now there is hope for the world and that light always overcomes darkness. This book really needs to be read at this time.

Gladys McGarey, MD, author and founder of the Foundation for Living Medi cine

Chris Hibbard is a master storyteller. The stories she weaves in The Heart of Healing have the power to shock us, push and expand our boundaries, and ultimately, inspire us with the resilience of the human heart. She begins at her home, where a child struggles with a speech impediment, then takes us to regions devastated by war. Her mission is to help relieve trauma. At times she collapses in tears, but in the end, shes sustained by the love that transcends borders and regions. This is a journey you wont fo rget.

Sara Davidson , author of Loose Change , The December Project , and JOAN: 40 Years of Life, Loss, and Friendship with Joan Di dion

I cherish this book, The Heart of Healing , not only for its compelling wisdom and inspiration, but also because I cherish its author, Dr. Christine Hibbard. I know Chris to be a person of depth, a person surrendered to compassion, a person engaged in her commitments. Chris is also a fun and joyous person. These qualities and values coalesce to inspire a foundation of gifts that flow abundantly throughout this wonderful work. This is a book of depth and impact, clearly reminding us all that, ultimately, it is the heart that reveals the healing energies and pathway for a life that works and matters.

Dr. Roger Teel, Spiritual Director, Mile Hi Church, Author of This Life is Joy; Discovering the Spiritual Laws to Live More Powerfully, Lovingly And Hap pily

Chris Hibbards pilgrimage is like no other. If you allow yourself to accompany her, she will guide you from the most elegantly beautiful, beatific moments, and then, with similarly natural ease, confidently and naturally shepherd you down a rocky slope of unimaginable human suffering. All the while, she remains fiercely honest about the paths that are being cut into her own soul as she goes. And she will invite you to do the same. For this radically extreme tension between heart-shredding anguish, and moments full to overflowing with immeasurable grace is the most truthful representation of this experience we all share, this thing we call life.

Wayne Muller, Founder, The Center for Living Sabbath, Bread for the Journey, Bestselling author of Sabbath , and A Life of Being, Having and Doing En ough

This tender, compelling memoir of love without borders is a treasure of hope and healing. Prepare to laugh, cry, and open your heart to miracles.

Joan Borysenko, PhD, New York Times best-selling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

In this moving memoir, Chris Hibbard takes us on an inspiring journey toward gaining inner peace and profound lessons through courage to embrace healing and offer assistance to others in desperate places around the world. Read these amazing stories and gift yourself with her honest self-revelations for transformation.

Jack Canfield, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

The Heart of Healing communicates the code of life-giving love, brilliance, wisdom, and the spirit of everlasting courage. Chriss heartfelt memoir is based on life and love enough to carry us through anything that life can offer. This book is everybodys best friend.

Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Conscious Evolution , futurist, and founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution

Joan Borysenko, PhD

Its true what they tell you. Nature is profligate in the wake of a fire. You never know what seeds lie dormant in the dark folds of the blackened earth, patiently waiting to make a run for the light.