Running Through Darkness offers reflections from hundreds of painful narratives I was privileged to hear and the modes of treatment that were most critical to my client’s healing.  I include wisdom gained from reviewing an abundant collection of personal journals, books, articles, and handouts collected at conferences and trainings I attended and facilitated throughout the years.  As the words for this book worked themselves out of me, I found myself flooded with my own memories of the fear, pain, loneliness, and narrow escapes.  I took many sharp turns toward safety and healing that would become part of the journey that is my life.   Instead of writing one more how to book for clinicians, I was compelled to tell my own story.

My prayer is that those who read this book will be inspired to hope, to not give up on themselves and know that there are many different paths of coming into and achieving wellness.  To know that no matter what they have experienced as survivors of trauma, they can heal. 

And finally, this book offers a message to all who care about survivors of sexual trauma and the professionals they seek out for help and support.  Do know there are many practices and modalities that can be useful to those searching for healing. The most significant tool, however, is within the actual survivor.  I am a living witness of the possibilities of healing, renewing, and reclaiming that which has always been ours–our wholeness.