Forget Me Not: 7 Steps for Healing Our Body, Mind, Spirit, and Mother Earth - Softcover

Kalayjian, Dr. Ani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627471324 ISBN 13: 9781627471329

Publisher: Sojourn Publishing LLC, 2017

Synopsis

Forget me Not, is a book about your self-care. Everyone seems to think they have been caring for themselves for a very long time. This book will guide you to another level of caring which will support and enrich the healthy practice that you already have. It will aid you in prevention of disease and promotion of holistic health, educating the mind and the heart, and finally, sharing concepts like Horizontal Violence and Generational Transmission of Trauma, which are integral parts of self-care. Remember that healing is just like peeling an onion. The next layer may burn your eyes, cause a temporary distress, but as you continue taking layer and layer off, you find the core inside. Then you find the gem, the jewel and the diamond that is you. If you want to feel, experience, or see your inner-authentic healing gifts and wisdom, then this book is especially for you. There are seven sections that tell the story. Part I, deals with the Authors childhood, the root of her issues and traumas that guide her to the integrative healing modality. In Part II she shares her adolescence and the gender discrimination she endured before her immigration. In Part III she shares her immigration experience to the United States of America, one of hopes and dreams of being free and able to receive a good education, find a good occupation, and the freedom to exercise her human rights. Part IV is about the transformation from trauma to meaning-making, as she begins reaching out to help humanity around the globe. In Part VI the author shares her story about healing another layer of herself and the 7-Step Integrative Healing Model successfully transforming victims to victors. In the last part, Part VII, the author provides the reader valuable information that the reader can use to print, post, frame, and use for their daily emotional and health needs. In reading each part, you the reader will find yourself reflecting on your own childhood and your relationships with your parents and siblings, considering your sibling order—what it means to you, and what it meant to your parents and other members of your extended family. Open your heart and apply these wonderful principles to your life, make it your own.

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About the Author

Dr. Ani Kalayjian is living proof that there is a reason people from all over the globe choose to immigrate to America. It was her desire to come to this country with the hopes and the dreams of being free, to receive a good education, find a good occupation, and exercise her human rights. While transcending adolescence and gender discrimination in her former country, she has found a higher level of caring and healthy practices for the prevention of disease and promotion of holistic health, educating the mind and the heart. Her analogy of peeling an onion describes how she found her inner core, the gem, the jewel and the diamond that is her. 
She uses her life lessons and her insights related to trauma, reaching reach out to help humanity around the globe through the Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention, the Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress & Genocide, and Meaningfulworld, organizing more than 100 humanitarian relief missions to address human suffering from the mind-body-eco-spirit perspective. 
She reaches thousands of people around the world, with the 7-Step Integrative Healing Model. This model,  used in more than 45 countries,reaching more than a million people, has helped others to survive many human-made calamities such as incest, domestic violence, and physical and emotional abuse on the individual level, as well as political wars, genocide,terrorism, and other state-sponsored violence on the national level. Her 7-step model has also been used in natural calamities such as earthquakes, hurricanes,tornadoes, cyclones, tsunamis, and floods. Last but not least, her model has been used by and effective with six different religious belief systems--Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Jainism--with enormous success. Her life is a testament to how she overcame and uses her experience to help everyone on this planet if they so desire, to transform from victim to victor,her way of giving back to the world.

Review

Dr. Kalayjian's 7-Steps for Healing Our Body, Emotions, Spirit and Soul is three things: a powerful memoir, an enlightening self-help book and an immeasurable gift to bestow upon your loved ones and yourself.--     Dr. Susan Furhman, President of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

This book comes from Ani Kalayjian's heart. Its message is a memorable and practical blend of the personal and professional.  Dr. Kalayjian is a world-class expert on the immediate and trans-general effects of trauma, loss, and victimization. She brings to these topics a readable and knowledge-based presentation based on an adult lifetime of hands-on experience.  She has conducted workshops, trained others, and helped people on sight at most of the world's mass disasters - nature caused and human caused - for over the past quarter century. This includes helping victims of war, earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods. The book begins with a brief (and very relatable) description of the traumas she faced coming from a family that survived mass killings.  As the book makes the transition to the longer, substantive material based on her professional work in the field, it explains helpful ways to experience trauma, face it without faking it, and come through standing vertical on the other side of the process.  Highly recommended for all who care.-- Raymond F. Paloutzian, Ph.D.Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CACo-Editor Forgiveness and Reconciliation.

Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a force of nature, and her new book is a reflection of the passion, depth, and wisdom she brings to the world. Forget Me Not is a small reader-friendly volume that imparts essential guidance about caring for oneself across multiple dimensions -- the body, the psyche, the spirit. A unique integration of wisdom from the world's thought pioneers, ancient and contemporary, combined with insights and processes innovated by Dr Kalayjian make this an essential handbook for anyone who has suffered trauma, was born into systemic trauma, or works with others who are affected. Nested within some of Dr Kalayjian's own powerful story, the guidance strikes us as immediately credible, applicable, and offered in resonance by one who knows.--Suzi Tucker, author of Gather Enough FirefliesFamily Constellation facilitator and teacher 

This book is deeply personal and offers insights into how Dr. Kalayjian has become one of the foremost voices on trauma, healing, and growth. Dr. Kalayjian takes the reader on a journey of healing, supported by rich experiences, teaching, and research in literally dozens of cultures. Her 7-step model might easily be one of the most widely-used approaches to post-traumatic healing, and this book provides an easily accessible and highly relevant approach to this process. It further contains wisdom on empathy, forgiveness, meaning in life, and so much more. As a colleague of Dr. Kalayjian's for a decade, I am a firsthand witness of the transformative work she does and her positive impact on the world. I heartily recommend this book to those who are hurting and equally to those who simply seek a more peaceful and meaningful life. --  Loren Toussaint, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

Edition details

• Publisher: Sojourn Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1627471324
• ISBN 13: 9781627471329
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 166