Life can feel incoherent, chaotic, and painful when you're first diagnosed with a dissociative disorder due to chronic childhood trauma. The road ahead may seem frightening or uncertain, and you may think of yourself as incompetent, unworthy, or even crazy. But what if, instead, you pictured yourself as a hero about to embark on the most difficult but rewarding journey of all? What if you focused on forgiving yourself and the trustworthy people in your life, rather than following society's common advice to forgive your abusers?

This approachable and insightful workbook will equip and empower you for the long, arduous road to recovery, with or without forgiving your perpetrators. Rather than embark on a potentially harmful mission to forgive those who have hurt you, you'll embrace your inner drive to heal, set your healing intention, and ride the Healing Wheel© into a whole life.

Healing Without Forgiving includes real-life stories as well as exercises to challenge and affirm you on your demanding but fulfilling healing journey. Believe it or not, you are the hero of your own story!

Lyn Barrett is the author of Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory, a memoir, and the founder of Dissociative Writers, a vibrant community of writers with dissociative coping strategies. Diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder in 1992, Lyn is a retired teacher, school principal, and pastor. In addition to writing about the topic of chronic childhood trauma, she teaches Memoir 101 for Dissociative Writers, speaks in a variety of settings, and hosts a weekly blog and newsletter. Lyn has walked the hero's journey to a happy, healthy life and seeks to normalize dissociation as a coping strategy. She lives with her husband in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She has four children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren scattered across the country. You can connect with Lyn on her website at www.lynbarrett.com.