Transforming Wounds into Wisdom: Change Your Attitudes and Save Your Life

We cannot escape life’s wounds. They come with the normal wear and tear of human existence.

In this engaging and eye-opening book, you will discover how you have been impacted by early experiences with primary caregivers who provided either Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right emotionally. Transforming Wounds into Wisdom: Change Your Attitudes and Save Your Life makes it clear, however, that whatever unhealed emotional injuries you sustained as a result of hurtful childhood experiences are not life sentences—they are opportunities for ongoing personal growth.

More specifically, Jolyn Davidson shows you the way to heal those old emotional wounds and to change the self-defeating attitudes that have arisen from them. She offers valuable and useful tools that will help you free yourself from the tenacious ties that have been binding you to your painful past. The empowering resources she provides will make it possible for you to generate new attitudes, which will then lead to deeper, more satisfying relationships with your family, friends, and yourself.

Ultimately, this profound book is about Hope—Healing—Wholeness. It is a road map that will arm you with not only greater understanding but also an enhanced ability to transform your emotional wounds into wisdom both by dismantling old attitudes and by fashioning new ones. And the wisdom, strength, and capacity to care for your needs in healthy ways that you have acquired on your heroic journey will make it possible for you to create a more meaningful and richer life.

JOLYN DAVIDSON, a graduate of the University of Washington (Seattle), is a licensed psychotherapist who has been in private practice for over thirty years in the Greater Los Angeles area.

She holds a BSN in nursing, an MSW in clinical social work, and an MA in social science. In addition, she holds diplomates from the National Association of Social Workers and the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. She has also served as a faculty member at both Biola University and Azusa Pacific University, where she (as Associate Director) was instrumental in developing an international Human Resource Leadership MA Program.

Jolyn provides clinical consultation to healthcare practitioners from a variety of disciplines and is a contributing author to psychotherapy books focusing on the treatment of emotional traumas sustained during early childhood. In addition, she has been a trainer for, and a consultant to, leaders in profit and non-profit organizations-both here and abroad.

In Transforming Wounds into Wisdom, Jolyn draws upon her broad-based and comprehensive experience as a clinician who has spent decades deeply immersed in her clinical work and study of the human psyche.

Through in-depth, relationally oriented therapy, she has helped children, adolescents, and adults change the dysfunctional attitudes and relationship patterns that have resulted from the early emotional injuries they have sustained. Her focus is on promoting psychological healing and integration-mind, body, and spirit. Jolyn is passionately committed to supporting others on their courageous journeys from woundedness to wisdom.