title: The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma: Reaching the Divine Through Nature's Healing Symbols
author: Ellen Macfarland Phd
description: Ellen Macfarlands book <i>The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma</i> is a fascinating and insightful exploration of the healing power of Nature in experiences of trauma.<br />from the foreword by Dr. Robert Romanyshyn, author of <i>The Soul in Grief</i><br /><br />Dr. Macfarland elegantly weaves the reciprocity between the individual and nature. This dance between the individual and nature is the delicate tao that is essential to the very survival of the human soul and the fragile planet that we inhabit.<br />Ashok Bedi, MD, Jungian analyst and author of <i>Path to the Soul</i> and <i>Awaken the Slumbering Goddess</i>
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  Devastation
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  A Beastly Tale
  
  
  Part 3
  
  
    
  
  
  M.J. Haag
  
  
  Devastation
  
  
  Copyright: Melissa Haag
  
  
  Published: August 25, 2015
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-943051-99-1
  
  
  Cover Design: Melissa Haag
  
  
    
  
  
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  publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
  
  
  transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical,
  
  
  photocopying, recording or otherwise without express written
  
  
  permission from the author.
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  The tattered remnants of the world I’d held
  
  
  so dear drifted from my mind. Anger and hate clouded my
  
  
  thoughts.
  
  
  I shook fiercely but refused to give in to
  
  
  the tears that so desperately wanted release. My stomach cramped
  
  
  from the recent abuse and the restraint to contain myself, and my
  
  
  face ached from the blows Tennen and the baker had delivered. Yet,
  
  
  the pain did not distract from the lingering feel of that
  
  
  grotesque, vile man as the carriage rumbled toward the Water. My
  
  
  skin 