Reclaiming Trust: A Personal Journey Out of Family & Domestic Violence

By Jennipher McDonald

Reclaiming Trust- is a therapeutic storytelling that contains key questions about your trust levels designed to lead the reader to find renewed trust after experiencing trauma. We have all experienced trauma at some time in our lives. This is my personal story about finding my way back to self love and trust after my experience with Family and Domestic Violence.

This story is thirteen chapters transforming my past. In my childhood, I learned things about relationships that were not true. I made decisions as a child that shaped my mind and caused me to create, and re-create again the drama and dysfunction from my childhood into my adult life.

Each chapter in Reclaiming Trust is split into two parts. One part lived experience and one part healing where I deconstruct and discard decisions about my previous experience.

This is a story about a journey from traumatic experience knowing yourself on a deeper level. How to find self-love and trust again?

Family and Domestic Violence is handed down through generations, Family and Domestic Violence happens over lifetimes: repeated.

I trained in Natural Therapies that I found helpful, such as, Breath work, Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). I have included these in this writing. Through the use of breath work, Hypnotherapy, NLP, dancing, creative imagination and other natural therapies Anna discovers herself. She finds that she is not a victim: she can change her mind and move towards a life of trust, accomplishment, creative expression and joy.

Jennipher McDonald has trained in Natural Therapies for the past 30 years. She is a Breath worker, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Neuro Linguistic Programming Trainer and Life Coach, as well as a facilitator of Theatre for Living (a social justice theatre practice). Jennipher has healed her past and is currently studying and researching her PhD at Curtin University, Perth Western Australia. titled "Reclaiming Agency through Embodied Performance: After Intergenerational Family and Domestic Violence." The key question driving both the performance and the exegesis asks: How can "Theatre games and Somatic Practices transform the oppression that comes from the lived experience of Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) into self-agency and wholeness?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08T6Q1127
• ISBN13: 9798594246850
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"