Wounded Healer: Surviving Childhood Trauma - Paperback

Lyttle, Lee: - About the AuthorTwenty-four years of professional and personal experience with addictions and mental illness have led Lee Lyttle to the conclusion that we are all imperfect... and that is a-okay. His memoir, Wounded Healer traces his healing journey through childhood trauma, addictions, and mental illness. His hope is to share how creativity and imagination, music, and art, can help people cope in a positive way with trauma of any nature, and he aims to support other male survivors of child sexual abuse, childhood trauma, addictions, or mental illness.In Wounded Healer, Lee shares his raw personal story and truths he's learned about healing from traumatic experiences. It demonstrates how his insights into creativity and the power of the imagination enabled him to take difficult experiences and lean into them, a process, which set him on a path of continually seeking and reaching new edges in life. Lee believes tremendous healing occurs the minute we share our stories honestly with others who have experienced similar difficulties, and that expressing our true identity is the greatest medicine we can ever find. With 10 years of experience working as a therapist for people who have suffered traumatic brain injury, Lee's insights and training into psychology and behaviour-amplified by his artistic endeavours-have given him the ability to explore trauma healing from a variety of perspectives: experientially and academically, as well as vocationally. Combining insights from western mainstream psychology and Traditional First Nations wisdom and practice through the concept of "Two-Eyed seeing" allow Lee to bring clients to a place of wholeness and wellness. Lee extends his healing work with various methods of healing he has learned through 12-Step support groups, religion, and various aspects of spirituality. Lee received a Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Behavioural Sciences from McMaster University.