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    Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle, An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse
    Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle, An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse
    Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle, An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse
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    Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle, An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse

    By Claire Cappetta

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    Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle shows there are alternative ways to heal from trauma and abuse. People who are Domestic Violence, rape or stalking survivors are looking for simple answers to daily anxiety or depression issues, from learning meditation, reflexology, even crystals to help them. With busy days, we don't always have time to research simple methods which are based on healing from abuse, which is included in this book.It is based on positivity, love and helping to find that inner sparkle so many of us lose.
    We find it difficult to see the light but we can find it! There are days when we can hardly pull ourselves out of bed, let alone put some music on or go for a walk, but it really is these simple things that rescue us.
    You are reading this, therefore, you breathe, blood courses through your veins, sometimes it feels like fire. The anxiety and depression try to extinguish it but we know all it needs is rekindling, a spark. Once your spark is found you can sparkle again!
    You don’t need anyone’s permission to be you, to find you. The perfectly imperfect you.

    Know you are loved, you are beautiful and you are awesome!

    You can rekindle your inner sparkle!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaire Cappetta
    Release dateJan 21, 2016
    ISBN9781311384638
    Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle, An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse
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    Claire Cappetta

    Claire is an author, life coach, cognitive behavioral therapist, and advocate. Her early life was spent in Yorkshire, England. She retired from the financial world to concentrate on the dream of publishing a first novel, based on her journey through relationships, abuse, and domestic violence through to inspiration and empowerment.Understanding that rape, abuse, and domestic violence are difficult topics to cover but rather than looking at it as a deep, dark subject, wants to throw light and empowerment at it, to show people there is 'Light at the end of the tunnel'. That the journey they have been through will forever change them, but it also made them stronger and they should be proud to say they survived instead of trying to hide it.Claire has been a speaker on Domestic Violence at various events: Barrier Free Living, Moving Beyond Shame, Shattering the Silence Tour in NYC. She has also appeared on various Blog Talk Radio shows including Freedom Talk Radio with Andy Peacher in the UK, also contributing posts to See the Triumph Organisation, etc. Her work has been endorsed by various professionals including Carol Senior of the American Screenwriters Guild, Audry Hardy of The Hope Healing House Foundation, Ohio. She is a certified Life Coach and Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, and holds diplomas in Psychology and Mental Health.

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      Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle, An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse - Claire Cappetta

      Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle

      An Alternative Way to Heal from Trauma and Abuse

      By Claire Cappetta

      Copyright 2016 Claire Cappetta

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      Dedication

      This little book of Alternative Healing is dedicated to all the survivors of Trauma and Abuse

      Mary of the band Simply Mary, showing joy and recovery through music

      And the Freedom Bound album/

      CONTENTS

      Introduction ~ Welcome to Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle

      Chapter One ~ Relaxation and Meditation

      Chapter Two ~ Simple Yoga Exercises to Heal from Trauma and Abuse

      Chapter Three ~Food using Spices and Herbs to Calm the Mind

      Chapter Four ~ Using Crystals to Help Clear the Mind

      Chapter Five ~ Aromatherapy Oils to Soothe and Calm

      Chapter Six ~ Reflexology Points for Stress Relief and Anxiety

      Chapter Seven ~ Music is the Voice of the Soul

      Chapter Eight ~ Keeping a Journal, is it right for you?

      Chapter Nine ~ These Boots Were Made for Walking

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      Welcome to Rekindle Your Inner Sparkle.

      My journey towards healing started eight years ago. I was finding it very hard and frustrating as to why I had memories missing of my teenage years and beyond. They were like these gaps, small black holes in which no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t fill them. I just thought I was crazy, unusual, quirky_ quirky seemed to fit the description of myself perfectly.

      I would startle when people called my name and sometimes, which people found very frustrating was the way I would start saying something, only for my mind to go completely and utterly blank. At these times of nothingness, I would quietly, patiently wait for my mind to re-boot itself, rather like a computer, which had suddenly crashed and then sparked back into life.

      My husband found it completely exasperating. There was nothing I could do but utter the usual apology, I’m sorry, but when it happens_ it happens! What more could I say?

      One day the idea struck of writing a journal, just a short one. It was to start in my teenage years and go from there. This journal went on for a while, writing slowly memories came back, which in turn led to panic attacks. I’d had them in the past but they were, I told myself part of my quirky nature…

      The journal was slow, over a period of four years. At one point my husband and step-daughter suggested I publish it… The answer had always been a resounding no. Who would want to read about a teenager who was raped? Who then fell into an abusive marriage? Who escaped only to find herself in a relationship which would have her held hostage, run for her life and lose her children? Not exactly fluffy bunnies and rainbows, right?

      The thought had started, quietly nagging in the back of my mind. What if this story helped someone else? I took a work respite from the financial world, warned everyone I worked with, that come January 1st I was embarking on a new hobby, the hobby of publishing a book.

      A few months later it was released through self-publishing, A Broken Ring. A year later I published Stalking Liberty. I had started a blog, made new friends, who were as quirky as me and I researched, from nine in the morning, through to eleven in the evening. I did take a break for an hour for dinner with husband. I know, I was bad. All these hours were enlightening, though.

      I discovered I had been raised by a narcissistic, abusive mother and an enabling father. I discovered it wasn’t my fault I was raped, that I wasn’t evil because I had bounced from man to man, or resembled an evil witch for losing my children, I wasn’t even quirky!

      I was a survivor who had PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome). Some people develop this from a one-time traumatic event, some people have started to class long time trauma as C-PTSD (Complex- Post Traumatic Syndrome) as they say these days Who knew?

      Through the journeys of the books, I was swept with various emotions of crying, laughing, and at times just being downright hysterical but I kept telling myself I was a survivor.

      If you have bought or been given this book it’s no doubt that you too are a survivor, a warrior who is either battling or has battled and so far you have won! You might not feel that way right now, but you are winning! You are still

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