A Clearing: Transcending Trauma

By Tiffany Dawn Solter PhD

When Dawn drives away from her marriage in the middle of the night - her dog Loki riding shotgun, her cat Zena in the back seat - she has no map for the life she is about to build. Only the keys to a run-down cabin in the woods, a fierce, fragile hope, and two animals who never stopped believing in her even when she could not believe in herself.
A Clearing is the story of a woman who had been slowly erased - by fear, by control, by a decade of learning to make herself small - and the hard, quiet, luminous work of finding herself again. In the solitude of a forest clearing, Dawn rediscovers painting, planting, laughter, and trust. She builds friendships and a home, and slowly begins to excavate the woman she had been before and imagine the woman she might yet become.

But healing is not a destination. It is a garden. You tend it, season after season, until one day you realize you are rooted - and blooming.

Tender, honest, and ultimately radiant with hope, A Clearing is for every survivor who has ever wondered: Is there life on the other side? Dawn's answer is yes. Beautiful, hard-won, and completely your own.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZD9SH3Q
• ISBN13: 9798195158910
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"