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A Roadmap to Healing from Pain to Create the Life You Want
Coming Back to Life
Rebeccah Silence, MS
PRAISE FOR Coming Back to Life
In Coming Back to Life, Rebeccah Silence shares her gut-wrenching challenges and miraculous overcomings. She lovingly imparts wisdom and insights born of experience as a world-class healing leader and offers unique and powerful tools for your positive growth. Ive known Rebeccah for a long time. She longs for a world of love and dreams coming true, realized one act, person, or relationship at a time. With this writing, she gently but firmly encourages us to heal our trauma and pain so that we commit to living our most inspired life. I wholeheartedly recommend this bookand taking its advice to heart.
Ken Streater, bestselling author of Be the Good and The Gift of Courage
Coming Back to Life is the book that the world needs in this moment. It will illuminate what has been invisibly holding you back and give you a clear path to feeling good and getting what you want. If you are ready to release the suffering and step into possibility, Rebeccah is here as a trusted coach, guide, and friend to take a stand for your healing. The spiritual medicine offered in this book will open your heart, transform your pain, and give you a whole new relationship with life itself. You will be moved by Rebeccahs incredible story, inspired by the inner reflections she offers you, and changed by the journey she leads you through in this powerful work. The world is about to be deeply moved by Rebeccahs gripping testimony of coming back to lifemake sure you dont miss the miracles waiting for you inside!
Stephen Lovegrove, Americas Life Coach
Coming Back to Life is a must-read if youre ready to take your life and power back. Rebeccahs story will help you connect to your story and uncover the patterns that have been blocking you. She provides real solutions to feeling better about any past traumas and offers us hope-filled possibilities that are absolutely life-changing.
Heather Burgett, award-winning publicist and visibility expert
Coming Back to Life: a story of triumph and victory. Rebeccah Silence, gifted coach, speaker, facilitator, and author, offers her experience through stories, coaching, and challenges of living when all seems lost. The lessons and stories in this book will move you to believe, get up, step forward, and free yourself as you free your emotions. I have been blessed to know and work with Rebeccah for over a decade. Witnessing her commitment to life, love, and people is a breath of fresh air in tough times. Allow Rebeccah to lift your spirits and share with you (from being there) what it takes to truly live!
Heather Steele, founder of Integrative Holistic Coaching
To my husband, Mark, and to my daughters, Madison Louise and Seneca RoseMarie, who taught me how to love and have made my life a dream come true.
Preface WHY THIS BOOK
We are in an epidemic.
Now more than ever before the world needs healing, emotional healing. Mindset work and inspiration are not enough to help people emotionally heal. Millions of Americans are self-medicating, suffering from mental health diagnoses, and are not getting the support that they need to function, heal, and lead healthy lives. Coming Back to Life is a road map that offers real tools, strategies, and support that will allow readers to get to the root of their pain patterns, while also giving them hope, encouragement, and access to the light at the end of the dark tunnel that they may be stuck in or living in.
This book is timely and, I believe, could save lives. My expertise as a coach and practitioner of Emotional Healing Release work with clients and audiences for more than fifteen years needs to be given to the world en masse. I have lived through hell as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, and cancer. I have beaten the odds. Now its time to teach people how to stay in the game of their lives and how to pick up the pieces so that they can live healthy, happy, and free. The goal is to help people see how their unhealed past is impacting their lives and the experiences they are having today. From there they learn steps to begin to heal and confront unhealed emotional wounds so that they can design a clear and healed future for their life. We cant change circumstances, diagnoses, or make anything that hurt us go away after the fact, but we can learn to feel how we want to feel and live how we want to live now.
The problem with the personal growth and mental wellness industry is that its built on statistics and is largely dependent on people consuming information and being dependent on therapists, coaches, and mentors, instead of learning how to navigate and trust their own internal guidance system. While there are many excellent therapists out there, I work with people every day who have been in therapy for decades, working on the same problems. Then they work with me, and in one coaching intensive they heal that thing they thought they couldnt heal and would have to live with forever, and then were onto the next issue. Ive created the Healing Is Possible movement and am writing this book so that people can pick and choose what they want for themselves instead of buying into statistics and relying on what someone else tells them they need. No one knows what other people are going through or what they need. My goal is to teach each reader of this book how to connect to that part of themselves that knows themselves. That trusts themselves. That loves themselves and their lives. And that has the power to live fully.
Im not knocking therapy and yet I do think that the therapeutic model is flawed. I offer tools and strategies and insight that allow for true breakthroughs, meaning life is never the same again and pain patterns are absolutely healed. People are drowning and this book is a life raft. The key differentiator in my work with people is that they are the expert. They become their own healer. And they are already healed and whole; they just may not believe or know it, yet. Ive beaten the statistical odds and so can anyone who wants to, or, at the very least, they can die trying.
I admit that this book doesnt solve or heal everything. It does, however, create an opening to possibility and life. My courses, retreats, podcasts, and coaching services are there to support people deeper after they read the book if they so desire. The tools, strategies, and methodologies that I offer are proven to work, heal and change lives, starting with mine. How you feel is 100 percent based on how healed your past is. You never have to feel powerless again and that is a promise.
Introduction
T he darkness is realand so is the light. I would know. I know horror. I know terror. I know what it means to think Im going to die and defy the odds. I know how to live with the pain, to endure, and to live in spite of the hell that I was waking up to and going to bed with every day. Childhood trauma and sexual abuse that began when I was only four years old left me lost, hopeless, and in the deepest hell of shame, for decades. I thought I was too much. I thought it was my fault. I thought I could have done things differently to change people and outcomes. Very young I took on the job that it was my responsibility to have been the one to stop the abuse cycle that I grew up in. I thought if I could be good, make a difference, and make others nicer, then my familys pain would stop. As a kid I would try not to move in bed thinking that maybe, just maybe, if I could hold still and stay awake, I wouldnt get hurt that night or the next day. I would wake up in the morning and plaster a fake smile on my face and not talk, because I had decided that talking could and would make everything worse. Then I would go through the motions, a shell of a person. I have been a martyr. A victim. A lost soul. And have emerged victorious. Who knew that childhood trauma could heal? I didnt know if it could or not. But I had a dream that it could and, for me, that dream came true. This book is for those of you who want to defeat your emotional pain and personal hell so that you can emerge victorious, and finally live free.