Linda Yael Schiller - Ptsdreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma Through Healing Dreamwork

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PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork 2022 by Linda Yael Schiller.

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First e-book edition 2022

E-book ISBN: 9780738770574

Book design by Christine Ha

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Editing by Rhiannon Nelson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Yael Schiller, Linda, author.

Title: PTSDreams : transform your nightmares from trauma through healing

dreamwork / Linda Yael Schiller.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications,

[2022] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: Nightmares,

especially ones caused by trauma, not only disrupt your sleep but can

also leave you exhausted and distressed. With in-depth information on

the nature of nightmares, author and psychotherapist Linda Yael Schiller

shows you how to turn distressing or heart pounding dreams into

resources for spiritual growth. Armed with effective techniques, you can

address conscious and unconscious fears to safely heal post-traumatic

nightmares and their root causes. Linda teaches the Guided Active

Imagination Approach (GAIA), a method she developed based on

best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination

principles. You will learn how to apply integrated and embodied

dreamwork techniques as well as somatic, narrative, and psychospiritual

approaches. PTSDreams helps you transform nightmares into a new story:

one of hope, healing, and life-affirming images-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022021668 (print) | LCCN 2022021669 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738770475 (paperback) | ISBN 9780738770574 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Dreams--Therapeutic use. | Nightmares. | Post-traumatic

stress disorder--Treatment. | Dream interpretation. | Cabala. |

Dreams--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Classification: LCC RC489.D74 Y345 2022 (print) | LCC RC489.D74 (ebook) |

DDC 612.8/21--dc23/eng/20220716

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Acknowledgments

My heartfelt appreciations to all my colleagues, friends, and clients who so generously shared their dreams and nightmares with me. Thank you for your trust. When I put out the APB that I was writing this book and looking for nightmares, I received countless dream missives containing your anxiety, fear, and distressing nightmares. I hope the act of sharing them with me and making them available to help others will also provide solace to these dreamers in their knowledge that they are furthering healing in the world. All client and colleague names have been changed to protect their anonymity unless they have specifically requested to use their own name, and personal information has also been altered for further privacy.

Big personal thank-yous to beloved friends and colleagues Jason DeBord, Julie Leavitt, Sara Levine, Betsy Magidson, and Jill Vetstein, for their dream-sharing. Additional special thank-yous to my long-term ongoing dream circle for their generosity and willing to share their dreams and our process over so many years: Joy Weider, Joyce Friedman, Marcia Post, Mia Woodworth, Ruth Silverstein, and Starr Potts. My other cheerleaders and supporters and dear sister/friends during this whole process include, as always, Diane Pardes, Beth Rontal, Lynn Roberson; all the Torah group women: Lorel Bar Kessler, Matia Angelou, Lynda Danzig, Julie Leavitt, Diane Pardes, Lori Silverstone, Joyce Friedman, Belle Halpern, Marilyn Stern, Janie Hodgetts, and Liza Stern; and my 35-year-long personal dream circle women: Lisa Kennedy, Marcia Lewin-Berlin, and Suzie Abu-Jabber.

IASD, the International Association for the Study of Dreams, has been my go-to place for all things dreamy for more than fifteen years. Special thanks to Jean Campbell, always a source of help and information and support; dear friend and dreamer Lauren Schneider, whose Taropy reading helped launch both my books; Jason DeBord xvi and Steve Ernenwein for their wonderful podcast interview on Dreaming My Daughter Home on their podcast Dreams That Shape Us ; and to colleagues Bob Hoss, David Kahn, Tzivia Glover, and Kim Mascaro for their support over the years.

Many thanks to Amy Glaser, Kat Neff, and all the staff at Llewellyn Publishing for their support, encouragement, and endorsement of my work. Big thank-yous to Rhiannon Nelson for her careful and thoughtful editing and her supportive comments along the way. Their patience, expertise, and warmth has made it a true pleasure to work with all of them.

Finally, love and thanks to my daughter Sara for giving me permission to share parts of her life, consulting on wording, and making me belly laugh. And this book could not have happened without my husband Steve being my first reader and wise editor, holding up the fort at home, feeding me, taking care of the infrastructure, and supporting my vision.

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Contents

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Chapter : The Difference Between a Dream and a Nightmare: The Narrative and the Emotional Stories