A Spectacular Dawn: Recovery from Incest Through Painting My Story (Book Three)

By Gabriel Orion Marie

Reviews:Gabriel Orion Marie's paintings have touched my soul. I encouraged her to follow her heart and give her paintings and story a place in the world where others may find encouragement and perhaps even hear the cry of their own souls in the mirror of her paintings. - Marilyn Van Derbur, author Miss America By DayA Spectacular Dawn is the final in this series and here Gabriel Orion Marie takes you into the heart of her healing, her conscious reclaiming of her sanity, her soul, her life and her joy. In this volume she shares extensively from her correspondence with Dr. A. and we are allowed to witness the depth of respectful, professional love thatwas a key ingredient in the thoroughness of her healing. "It was when I realized that Dr. A. respected me more than my father despised me and loved me more than my father hated me that I felt the certainty that my whole recovery was possible. Only respectful love can permanently undo the damage of hatred. And his love was expressed by unwavering commitment, impeccable boundaries, and unconditional acceptance and respect. Period. That was critical for my whole resurrection. Anything less would have amounted to symptom management and I didn't want that, I wanted Healing!" As part of honoring the YWCA Annual Week Without Violence Campaign, a selection of Gabriel Orion Marie's paintings were displayed in an exhibit entitled "Strength from Brokenness" in Kampen, Netherlands in Nov 27-Dec 13 2012. She is a featured artist with the foundation Art out of Violence in the Netherlands (kunstuitgeweld.nl).A number of Gabriel's paintings have been used in presentations promoting sexual abuse awareness at the Awakenings Foundation in Chicago, Illinois - a foundation created to help victims of violence who have used art as a path for recovery. She will have an exhibit at the Awakenings Foundation Gallery in October of 2013.About this SeriesThere are many themes in the areas of wounding and healing from sexual abuse, incest, and torture, and for my books, I have chosen themes that were most prominent in my journey. I created over 325 paintings and drawings during several years of my therapy and have arranged selections of them by themes for chapters. I tried to choose paintings in each topic that I felt would communicate best what I am trying to share.These themes and paintings are divided into three books, each sharing the subtitle Recovery From Incest Through Painting My Story:This White House (Book One)Chapter 1 A Legacy of Shame: A Brief AutobiographyChapter 2 First Revelations: Beginning TherapyChapter 3 Child Pornography/Child ProstitutionChapter 4 MultiplicityChapter 5 Inner Deaths: Borderline SeriesChapter 6 Obesity and MeasurementChapter 7 Spirituality and GuiltGoing Sane (Book Two)Chapter 1 The Therapeutic RelationshipChapter 2 Establishing My InsanityChapter 3 Tortured: Segreto Oscuro (Dark Secret)Chapter 4 The Penis QuestionChapter 5 The Fiercest TabooChapter 6 SensationsChapter 7 Some of My SelvesA Spectacular Dawn (Book Three)Chapter 1 Choosing ConsciousnessChapter 2 GrievingChapter 3 Letting GoChapter 4 ForgivenessChapter 5 A New BeginningChapter 6 The Dawn and IChapter 7 Only Now

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482617846
• ISBN13: 9781482617849
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"