title: Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past
author:  Kathleen Sullivan 
description: Kathleen Sullivan has a private practice in dream work/counseling and has her own show on public radio. She resides in Pacific Grove, CA. She is the author of Recurring Dreams: A Journey to Wholeness.
zlib_text: Title:  The Icon Effect
  Author: Darren Sugiyama
   
  Copyright: 2012
  ISBN:  978-0-9892619-2-0
  www.DarrenSugiyama.com
   
  Publisher’s Note:
  The characters, companies and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual
  persons, companies, or events is coincidental.
   
  
  Chapter 1:  My First Encounter With The Icon
   
  It was 5:03 a.m. and my alarm clock was set to go off in 57 minutes. 
  I was exhausted and wired at the same time, which didn’t seem possible,
  but having my wife leave me didn’t seem possible either.
  My mind was racing.
  I barely got any sleep that night, tossing and turning, nightmare after
  nightmare.
  Sometimes, I wished I could retreat back into my nightmares because
  they were far less painful than my actual life. 
  My therapist told me that the pain in my heart would decrease over
  time, but the knot in my stomach seemed to grow bigger as the days went
  on.
  What did I do to deserve this? 
  I gave her everything I had, but apparently, that wasn’t good enough.
  I thought 