Daring to Heal: Growing Beyond Trauma Through Awareness, Acceptance, and Action

"Trauma" is one of those buzzwords most people don't truly understand, let alone know how to process. It touches each of us in small ways and some of us in deeply profound ways. There are plenty of books on the subject of trauma, but Laura Stearns, author of Shattered: Exposing the Open Secret of the Children's Theatre Scandal, bravely tackles it with understanding, vulnerability, humor, and a keen sense of how trauma lives in the body. She shares her knowledge through relatable and personal experiences, illustrating step by step how, over decades of practice, she has developed a process of healing that has taken her from a place of suffering to one of peace and acceptance. Daring to Heal is a beacon, a guide through the darkness to the light of personal truth that can free us from shame and behaviors that keep us tethered to our trauma. Though her personal trauma stems from childhood sexual abuse, the RITE Thinking Process shared in this book is a universal tool that can be applied to healing no matter the source of the trauma.