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Reclaiming
Wholeness

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Reclaiming Wholeness is Iya Rev. DeShannon’s insightful new book on Spiritual Injury. She offers compelling examples from her own life as well as stories from communities often ignored. Components of healthy spiritual communities and leaders are explored and a guide to healing from spiritual injury is offered. The accompanying guidebook goes deeper into supporting people in their process of healing while discovering how to move in the world with spiritual authority.

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Reclaiming Wholeness

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Reclaiming our Wholeness is the ongoing process of choosing freedom by expressing the full totality of who we are.

Whale - Courage

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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~ Audre Lorde

Turtle - Community

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True community is based upon equality, mutuality and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.
~ Pauli Murray

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Frog - Transformation

Wholeness is a state of embodied awareness that supports people living as fully integrated beings.

 

~ DeShannon Barnes-Bowens

Jo Anna Hunter, Iyanifa 

Reclaiming Wholeness is a brilliant, original must read for those in search of a spiritual community, and for those who are already in a community. Iya Rev. Barnes-Bowens provides powerful tools to help us evaluate if a spiritual place is a healthy space for learning, growth and belonging!

Resounding testimonies, to the power of
Reclaiming
Wholeness

— Author of My Journey to Aganjú: The Òrìsà so Hard to Find.

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Excerpts from the book...

“Spiritual Injury is our direct experience or witnessing of any intentional or unintentional act that offends, damages or hurts our relationship to what we consider sacred or divine.”

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RECLAIMING WHOLENESS:
Healing Spiritual & Religious Injury

Professional  Development 
Training & Workshop

This workshop is for any community, group, or organization who needs tools and support to heal from harmful behaviors done in the name of any spiritual path or religious tradition.

 

Reclaiming Wholeness is ideal for anyone who has experienced religious or spiritual injury and those who work to support them.

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