Remember Me: How My Soul Connection With Animals Helped Me Recover From A Severe Brain Injury - Softcover

Nations, Linda Nija

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1984944304 ISBN 13: 9781984944306

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

When a woman suffers a massive brain injury, she discovers she has an incredible ability that may just transform her life. Linda Nija Nations loves her work as a successful psychotherapist. With her extensive counseling experience, including specializing in treating PTSD, she never dreamed she'd become her most challenging patient. But when a horrific fall from a horse leaves her with severe brain trauma, she’s forced to rebuild her entire life piece by piece. Scared that she’ll lose everything familiar to her, Linda’s single strand of hope arrives when she learns to focus on the moment. When her friends, family, and husband force Linda to forge on alone, she develops an amazing two-way ability to communicate with animals. As her suffering makes her question why she returned from the brink of death, will Linda’s unique connection create a new life with a completely different brain? In this moving memoir-come-inspirational guide, professional psychotherapist Linda Nija Nations shares her own inspirational journey of hope, healing, and spirit that will motivate anyone on a challenging path to recovery. Remember Me: How My Soul Connection with Animals Helped Me Recover from a Severe Brain Injury is a remarkable true story. If you like heart-opening conversations, spiritually moving moments, and powerful lessons, then you’ll love Linda Nija Nations’ incredible tale of healing. Buy Remember Me to embrace a beautiful tale of survival today!

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About the Author:

Linda Nija Nations worked for almost three decades as a psychotherapist, helping humans make dramatic life changes when a life-altering fall from her horse (Sestina) led her to work with animals as an intuitive. Among her repertoire, she has assisted both humans and animals healing from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She reports that animals change much more quickly than humans, having less ego through which to wade. She is the creator of an experiential workshop called WOMEN: The Rebirth of Soft Power, which is currently being adapted for men. She coaches humans on their personal and spiritual growth, teaches animal communication workshops, and presents to audiences on animal consciousness. She believes humans and animals are all an equal and integral part of the same vast universe. Through storytelling, she relates actual experiences she’s had with animals. She hopes these tales will enhance human understanding of all life forms. She lives on the western slope of Colorado with her husband Victor, their dog Ellie, and cat Sierra.

Review:

Nothing is as riveting, nor compelling, nor enlightening to a heightened understanding of our own existence as listening to a survivor tell about their restoration from major brain damage. Linda Nija Nations, in her highly personal and touching memoir, Remember Me, adds to the automatic interest stirred by such a devastating event (caused by falling from a horse) with a fascinating adjunct to her own long-term recovery: a life-altering new ability to connect with and understand animals - their messages, their guidance, and the meaning their own lives have for humans. Lest this sound too "flaky" or "new-agey," keep in mind that the author possesses pre-fall, real-world, professional credentials to establish credibility and competence in assessing the nature of her own restoration. She is also candid and forthright in her telling. And besides, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio .." Linda Nija Nations' own explanation for her new connection comes quickly in Remember Me: that she is forced by her severe condition to live exclusively in the moment, something wisdom seekers strive relentlessly to do, and that animals by their very nature already do. A more immediate, non-verbal comprehension occurs in such a state that allows for direct communication between those in it. But this part of Ms. Nations' immensely readable account is not the meat of what she has to say. As the reader begins to live the author's renewable life, she comes to sense and understand much deeper revelations about what it means to be alive, to have identity, to have relationship to other beings, to access conscious choice for creating change; all things most of us fail to appreciate but still rely on for establishing our own worlds. Including, of course, those of any species who might be here to help. -Joel R. Dennstedt for Readers' Favorite

Do you remember that song "If I could talk to the animals?" I do. In fact, as a child I was mesmerized by the possibility of "Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee." But even if my little dog seems to be limping along with me when my osteoarthritis flares, I would probably laugh if someone were to suggest he's feeling my pain..that is until l read Remember Me by Linda Nija Nations. This author makes you wonder about and question any beliefs you hold about all other creatures who share our world. When Linda Nija Nations suffered a dreadful brain injury following a fall from her horse, the road to recovery was a very diffi 뺭 廠恀 @cult one. No longer able to do what we all take for granted, like daily multi- tasking or walking and talking simultaneously (as just the act of walking required full concentration on foot placement), Linda was forced to forge on alone after she recognized how little her husband cared about her. Still weak, and often disoriented even for months following surgery, Linda had to tend to the maintenance of her farm and animals by herself. Though she occasionally thought she'd be better off dead, with a dogged determination, she slowly regained her strength and developed a new one, that of being able to communicate on a very deep level with her beloved animals. This skill brought her back to full acceptance of what had happened in her life, and opened her up to a new career of helping others, both humans and animals, to heal after traumatic events. Linda Nija Nations "believes humans and animals are all an equal and integral part of the same vast universe." Because she believes this so deeply, she does a good job of convincing those of us who are skeptical, or too rooted in reality, to open up our minds and think outside the box. Through the beautiful, sometime humorous descriptions Linda gives readers of her exchanges with owls, birds, even a skunk, but especially through her tender moments with her horses and dogs, she touches our souls. If readers are receptive to Linda's stories, they will come away from Remember Me acknowledging we still have so much to learn about life and this earth that we share with our animal friends. Nations has offered us a chance to suspend our doubts just long enough to consider alternatives. Embrace the opportunity to do so. -Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite

Remember Me: How my soul connection with animals helped me recover from a severe brain injury by Linda Nija Nations is the author's memoir of the aftermath of a fall from Sestina (later reverting to the original name Rose), a beloved horse, that resulted in a traumatic, life altering injury. Nations' story highlights how this damage, which had her learning how to walk and talk again, cost her friends, family, her marriage, and altered every facet of her day to day living. Despite this, she found a unique source of hope, help, and inspiration: guardian angels in spirit, human, and animal form. Nations was able to connect with the animal guides on a level that most would have trouble grasping, let alone conferring with, but through love, compassion, and mutual respect, a world unknown to all but a special few revealed itself to Nations and brought her more than just physical healing. Remember Me by Linda Nija Nations might be a memoir, but it reads more like an absorbing novel. For me, the most beautiful story (of many told) is the one of her connection to Barney, an abused horse who was able to convey the offenses against him through a "photo" projected to Nations. This enabled her to let Barney's new human companion, Candace, understand the full scope of what they were dealing with. Nations states, "The animals that allowed me to connect with them have been my teachers. Through them I have gained an immeasurable understanding of their nature." The healing she embraced for herself as well as the animals and people who surround her lend weight to her story. I would absolutely recommend this book to all animal lovers, individuals who are overcoming hardships, and anyone interested in a beautiful tale of survival. -Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1984944304
• ISBN 13: 9781984944306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292