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Severed Soul; One Woman’s Journey Through Post Traumatic Stress
Author J.L. Vallee

Between the trauma from car accidents, emotional abuse, and death, Amy Howard begins to unravel in shock of flashbacks from a shattered life. How far will Amy go to keep her sanity? What force will keep Amy safe? Life is going to take her for a ride that includes deceit, pornography, adultery, abuse and the grief of the worst betrayal ever. The last chapter includes reflections and resources about Post Traumatic Stress.
The release of this book will help people understand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. People will be able to feel Amy’s pain and understand the cause and effect of trauma and abuse. Domestic Violence issues and Spirituality are also woven into this novel through the twists and turns of Amy’s story. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a haunting, silent scream, in a sound mind. This is a survival story and a story that may challenge you to question the issues of Post Traumatic Stress that it is a human illness; it has no prejudice on age, race, or gender.
As a reader you will feel the brokenness of Amy’s spirit, the eternal terror she experienced and her soul severed as she reaches for hope.
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I reserve the name Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for clinical use. I use the term ‘reality shift’ in place of PTSD.
Primary topics :

- The concept that war can create in a soldier a deep anger/hatred/shame of the human race for using war to resolve issues. The self anger/hatred/shame that can be felt by the veteran for being a part of the human race and participating in the savagery of war and taking of human life. That this internalized response to war may drive a soldier into such spiritual darkness and despair that a brutal disconnection from life occurs leaving the veteran with a sense that suicide is the only solution. For many other veterans, it may condemn them to a life of misery.

- That a soldier/veteran may not be able to identify the origins of this most base anger/hatred/shame in/of/for the human race. This leaves the veteran in spiritual/emotional darkness, caught between an experience the veteran cannot understand and a lack of understanding to resolve those experiences. This results in total disconnection from the greater beauty of all life.

-These issues are discussed through my own experiences with war.

-Also discussed are the limits of reality imposed by humans through religion, society, education and family. I explore how these limitations may result in stigmas and the inability to think beyond human rules and regulations to the broader connection to all life.

-I explore the history of humans at war, the development of our personal and social regard/respect for life and how these affect our ability to understand/justify our participation in war. This discussion focuses on how we think/understand our reality formed as a continuation of the human (ancestral) experience/thinking throughout history.

- Graphs, which are intended to help give a visual perspective to aid in understanding the experience and reality shift of war are presented to visually explain how life is a series of reality adjustments : War is one of these reality adjustments on a very severe level.

-One of the main topics covered is the idea that humans can understand how to emotionally and spiritually process and resolve the experiences they have created in their lives.

- Interviews with professors and combat veterans who offer experience and knowledge to the discussion are also included.

-Spirituality, diet, the arts, physical/mental exercise and other ideas central to my experience with “Reality Shift” of war are also covered in depth.

- I refer to my book Souled Out, A Memoir of War and Inner Peace and the experiences covered and explained therein.

Author: Michael S. Orban
Publisher : Silver Rings Press (an imprint of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9767581-1-2
ISBN-10: 0-9767581-1-3
Format: Trade Paper
Page Count: 200
US Price: $17.00

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