Unlocking the Secret Power of Awe: How Wonder Transforms Trauma into Healing
Walker is a keen observer of the field of counseling, and her early experiences of being undervalued, pathologized, and stigmatized as someone seeking help from practitioners in that field inform this book and set it apart. “What people didn’t understand about traumatic stress,” she writes, “is that it stuck around like shreds of shrapnel in our neuromuscular system, our reflexes, and biochemistry. Little was known at that time about the neurological damage of trauma.” She digs into all of this here.
