Literature Link for Nov.28, 2021-Healing from Trauma
· The Healing Power of Telling Your Trauma Story: Six ways revisiting painful memories can loosen their grip. [article] However, our trauma memories can continue to haunt us, even — or especially — if we try to avoid them. The more we push away the memory, the more the thoughts tend to intrude on our minds, as many research studies have shown. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-act-be/201903/the-healing-power-telling-your-trauma-story
· You Were Never Broken: Poems to Save Your Life by Jeff Foster. [book of poems] Poems for accepting all that you are―including those parts of yourself that you wish you could disown. “Give yourself permission/ to rest, and be silent,/ and do nothing.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Were-Never-Broken-Poems/dp/1683645596
· “Daddy, You’re My Hero” by Ashley Rain. [poem] “I remember the day I was at work, scooping ice cream full time, smelling like a waffle cone constantly. / 15 years young, when I received the text from my Father, /asking if I would like to buy some pills from him” https://allpoetry.com/Ashley_Rain
· The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar [novel] Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. “The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing — one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances.” For an excellent review, summary, and comments: https://www.amazon.com/Return-Pulitzer-Prize-Winner-Fathers/dp/0812985087
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