Knowing Acts: Engage in Healing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781737552802)

Knowing Acts-Engage in Healing is a customizable workbook for your personal journey of healing. It includes 100 pages of full-color beautiful illustration and over 30 easy, pleasant-to-do exercises with music, art, mindfulness, podcasts, poetry, haiku, and more. There are selections of brave books, websites, podcasts, audio books, and free resources. Rich with original healing art by Maine watercolorist Linden O'Ryan, Knowing Acts helps you create your own calming practice for emotional balance. Created by trauma survivor Heidi Love on her own healing journey, and reviewed, endorsed, and enhanced by numerous trauma experts, Knowing Acts combines psychology, experience, and art to help you rise above trauma and live life to it's fullest.

Knowing Acts offers engaging ways to create a calming practice for those suffering from overwhelming emotions and allow readers to ACT before spiraling down in unhealthy ways. It helps to defuse deep sadness, grief, shame, rage, anger, and feelings of numbness and being lost, through an automatic response. It uses a stopgap measure to help trauma, sexual assault, and domestic violence survivors move from PTSD, suicidal ideation, or debilitating emotions to places where they can feel calm and restored, and seek professional help. Created by trauma survivors for survivors it includes a customizable workbook for you to create your own plan of ACTS to use during the sudden onset of intrusive thoughts and overwhelming feelings.

Thoroughly reviewed and endorsed by numerous trauma and counseling experts, including Dr. Anne Hallward, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Tufts University Medical School, and Dr. Susan Newman Manfull Social Psychologist, it is hailed as a lifesaving resource. If you or someone you know is seeking a healthier approach to overwhelming sadness, grief, anger, rage, or numbness, or recovering from PTSD, suicidal thoughts, trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence or other hardship, Knowing Acts offers a calming approach to emotional balance and healing.

"This inspiring book is a touchstone, a safe harbor to return to again and again as we navigate the courageous journey toward healing." Anne Hallward MD, Founder and Executive Director, Safe Space Radio, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University Medical School.