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Pastor and author Nancy Kraft writes: "The time we spend on this earth is more than a series of events marking our lives like headstones in a cemetery. Beneath our stories lies a depth of meaning waiting to be uncovered. And beyond that meaning lies an even deeper truth that connects us to the divine Story we share with one another and all creation." Kraft is a self-proclaimed "meaning-maker" who is always sifting through the tangled mess of her life to find threads of meaning. That tangled mess includes the trauma of viewing her father's corpse when she was six years old, a disastrous marriage to a bigamist, and pastoring a congregation committed to boldly supporting LGBT folks in the buckle of the Bible Belt. More than simply recounting events from her past, Kraft pulls meaning from her experiences, both the marvelous and the mundane, all within the context of her relationship with God, often drawing from the Biblical story to inform her own story. A surprisingly honest spiritual memoir, Threads follows Kraft as she struggles through her sometimes naïve (and often just plain stupid!) mistakes and learns the power of forgiving herself, embracing community, and choosing to love instead of judge. Tackling topics like homophobia, racism, aging, and atheism, this book paints a grace-drenched portrait of what it means to be authentically human as it inspires you to examine your own life story for the deeper meaning it holds.

The Moon, the Hare, and the Pearl: An Intuitive Guide to the Therapist-Client Relationship is an unconventional, archetypal guide to the practice of psychotherapy. This book invites the reader to bring the power of her or his intuition, curiosity, and imagination to this profound practice. If you are just beginning this journey as a student, intern, or newly licensed clinician, this book offers practical advice for walking a deeply feminine and intuitive path. If you are an experienced clinician, you will find a home here in the light of reflection, confirmation, and humor. And for non-clinicians who want a deeper understanding of their inner being, this book will open longed-for doors.This book diverges from traditional texts on “how to do” therapy. Instead, it suggests ways in which the therapist can access her intuitive capacities in service to both herself and her client. My personal practice of Zen Buddhism and my study of Jungian psychology form the basis for my work. I have deep faith in our capacity as human beings to move toward wholeness and individuation. We are always in flux, and how we navigate difficult and challenging passages moves us ever more deeply into connection to soul. In my therapeutic work, I rely on creativity through art, sand tray work, and dreams to being forth healing images from psyche. I also use EMDR as a healing modality for trauma in conjunction with imaginal process.The book is based on my 33 years of clinical practice in both private practice and agency work.  Supervision of interns throughout my professional life was the instigation for this book and for sharing fundamental truths and methods.Once I was in a cab in New York. The cabby made a sudden right turn and went right through a gas station parking lot at lightning speed, and into a lane of traffic moving swiftly in the opposite direction. My heart dropped! “This is one of those tricks of the trade you learn after you’ve been driving as long as I have,” he said, laughing.  After catching my breath, I also laughed.I took his statement as affirmation for my book, as I had just finished the early chapters entitled “Tricks of the Trade.” The only way you know some things is through practice, practice, and more practice. You gotta live through it! However, there is light and guidance along the way. In that vein, this book is also part memoir and lays down the stepping-stones of observation, imagination, and metaphoric and symbolic process for increasing awareness.How do you, as a therapist, relate to your client? How do you move into more depth-oriented therapy? How do you engage the client in a more internalized process and move toward resolution and growth that feeds the soul as well as the mind?  These evocative questions form the basis of this book. The book also explores how the therapist walks with the client, and how her own development is intimately connected to that of her clients.  

Kate Barnes is fourteen years old when she first experiences the strange gifts she has inherited from her grandmother's side of the family. She has a vivid waking dream, a memory of an earlier life centuries before in the small Somerset village of Oakey Vale when she was murdered by an angry mob who believed her to be a witch.Her grandmother decides the time is right to reveal to Kate some family secrets, including the ancient cave which houses the family tomb. However, just as Kate is learning to develop her second sight, her education with her grandmother is interrupted when her father insists she return to London. He is determined that Kate forget her grandmother's teachings and get a job in order to help support their growing family. But nothing will keep Kate from her destiny: to take her grandmother's place as local wise woman and guardian of the mysterious cave . . .