Introduction xiii

Part I The Fracture 1
Chapter 1 A Good Girl in God's House: The Trauma of Original Sin 3
Chapter 2 The Silencing of Self: The High Cost of Belonging 13
Chapter 3 Trauma in the Name of Holiness 29

Part II The Awakening 41
Chapter 4 The Body Remembers: How Pain and Panic Became My Path 43
Chapter 5 Sacred Rage and Sovereign Grief 51
Chapter 6 From Shattered to Whole: Meeting Your Parts 59
Chapter 7 Returning Home 69
Chapter 8 The Woman They Misunderstood 83

Part III The Becoming 93
Chapter 9 The Spiritual Connection Between Psychedelic Therapy and The Body's Wisdom 95
Chapter 10 The Grace of Going Away 111
Chapter 11 Coming Home to Yourself 135

Part IV The Call 143
Chapter 12 The Cave, the Conch, and the Calling 145
Chapter 13 The Body as Oracle 163
Chapter 14 Living the New Story: When One Woman Remembers, the World Shifts 173
Chapter 15 No One Benefits When You Hate Yourself 187

Acknowledgments 211
About the Author 213
Index 215