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Summary: How To Heal Yourself
Review: "She Who Dreams" is an insightful overview of a life that brings us to a solid realization of the power of choice in our own lives. This is especially true when life threatening illness knocks us out of complacent routines and makes those choices actual life or death decisions.
Wanda Burch has put a spotlight on how necessary--indeed essential--it is that we participate in our own healing.
Furthermore, she has sketched out ways in which we may participate in our own healing by using dream imagery to bring the energy and healing power of deeper levels of our being to bear on our everyday choices.
Burch's techniques may appear deceptively simple, but --as the author proves again and again from her own experience--the potential of dreamwork to heal even the most chronic conditions--whether physical or emotional--is vast.
This book is a "must read" for anyone battling serious illness. The dream imagery guidance it offers on how to be a prime participant in one's own healing could make a life or death difference.
For all of us, this book is a valuable guide to living more fully, to healing the wounds which living inevitably brings, to avoiding many pitfalls before we become enmeshed in them, and to finding certainty that the enrgy and power to see us through is there--and spelled out on the "neon sign" of our dreams.
Paying attention to dreams, actively working with dreams, is part of a successful formula for living, through good times or bad. Applause for this brave author in baring her rough road through illness to health, and for showing us all how to do it using our own dreams as our best "consultant."
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Summary: A Skeptic Won Over
Review: I confess that I came to this book as something of a skeptic. To my rational, scientific mind, the idea that one's dreams can affect or predict the future seemed pretty iffy. Yet it is hard to deny the truth of personal experience. Wanda Burch has a fascinating story to tell, and I was drawn in by it. She describes her life-and-death experiences in vivid detail, with honesty and insight that leap out from the page. The author is more than a survivor; she is clearly a woman of extraordinary courage.
For anyone who has struggled with special health challenges, or anyone who has wondered what their dreams mean, or for that matter anyone who just enjoys a good original biography, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: She who dreams: a real wake up call
Review: I just finished reading "She Who Dreams" and enjoyed it thoroughly. In this honest and sensitive book of personal dreams, illness, challenges, and recovery, the author shows us how she honored and utilized her dreams to battle a lethal breast cancer. Through her openness, I felt like I had known her for ages and am sure I wasn't the only one who felt that way. With the combination of modern surgery and chemotherapy, topped with her fascinating dreams, the trinity of the healing medicine reversed her path to death. As the small triumphs and wondrous healings took places, doubts about her unknown future also persisted. The life affirmation came from an amazing BIG dream, in which she was allowed to re-negotiate her soul contract. I can't imagine anyone's life be the same again after such an eye-opening dream: it actually gave me chills! Whether facing a serious life challenge or leading a mundane life, reading this book encourages one to pay more attention to personal dream messages and integrate them into waking life. I highly recommend this inspirational book to anyone who needs to dream which includes us all.
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Summary: A Guide for Healing and Dreaming
Review: I truly enjoyed reading Wanda Easter Burch's excellent new book, She Who Dreams. This is a book you definitely want to read if you or someone you love is trying to heal from cancer or any serious illness. It's also one you want to read even if you're not in that position because it's an amazing chronicle of the healing power of dreams. With genuine Southern charm and deep spiritual insight, Wanda takes us through the experiences, in waking and sleeping, that presaged her disease, helped her get a correct diagnosis and proper medical treatment and supported her through the intense physical, emotional and mental roller coaster of treatment to recovery. I found myself buoyed by her honesty and humor in the face of such an immense personal challenge. I especially loved reading it at bedtime, just before I entered the dream world myself. I'd go to sleep full of wonder at the possibilities for healing and guidance available in dreams because Wanda's experiences are sparkling examples. With help from her long-time friend and mentor, shamanic dream counselor, Robert Moss, Wanda has developed a healing path for others to follow into the dreaming. I highly recommend this book for anyone from teens on up.
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Summary: She Who Dreams: A Journey into Healing through Dreamwork
Review: She Who Dreams is a beacon of hope, a lighthouse on a cloudy day. In the pages of this book you will find a personal triumph over breast cancer, hard fought and sustained by a combination of medical and dream therapies. We are urged to listen and respond to our own dreams, as the author did during her diagnosis and treatment. Wanda Burch opens her life to us--doubts and fears, as well as successes. Her honesty is a rare attribute in today's world. I recommend her book for those who wish to dream a healthier future for ourselves and our communities. Along with her friend, the renowned dream teacher Robert Moss, Wanda shows how we can use our dreams in an active process of sharing, re-entering and re-shaping. They offer us guidelines and proven techniques for improving our physical and spiritual health. In the end we understand, like Wanda, that dreaming is a lifelong and lifesaving process.
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Summary: She Who Dreams: A Journey into Healing through Dreamwork
Review: She Who Dreams is a beacon of hope, a lighthouse on a cloudy day. In the pages of this book you will find a personal triumph over breast cancer, hard fought and sustained by a combination of medical and dream therapies. We are urged to listen and respond to our own dreams, as the author did during her diagnosis and treatment. Wanda Burch opens her life to us--doubts and fears, as well as successes. Her honesty is a rare attribute in today's world. I recommend her book for those who wish to dream a healthier future for ourselves and our communities. Along with her friend, the renowned dream teacher Robert Moss, Wanda shows how we can use our dreams in an active process of sharing, re-entering and re-shaping. They offer us guidelines and proven techniques for improving our physical and spiritual health. In the end we understand, like Wanda, that dreaming is a lifelong and lifesaving process.
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Summary: A Book For Everyone
Review: SHE WHO DREAMS is a powerful book. Wanda Easter Burch gives us a beautiful portrait of a life lived on many levels - as we all live - and, by offering the harrowing and hopeful details of her life, inspires us to look at our own lives with the same degree of curiosity and compassion.
With the quality of pacing and skillful foreshadowing that a seasoned novelist would offer, the author lays out her personal story. On one level it follows her roots in the American South to travels in Africa, important interactions with the Mohawk tribe and her home in a rural New York hamlet. We follow her struggle with cancer including her mastectomy, the emotional despair her chemotherapy induces and, ultimately, her path as one who heals. On another level it follows the story of her dreams. Her childhood is guided by a grandmother who understood the power of dreams to foretell and bring healing. Her adult life is blessed with the incomparable friendship of well-known author and dream explorer, Robert Moss - whom she first met in a childhood dream. The author's dreams insistently foretell of a cancer her doctors repeatedly ignore. As insistently, her dreams predict her death at age 43.
By actively following guidance her dreams provide, the author is led - and leads us - through a healing process that proves, beyond a shadow of doubt, the power of the spirit and the mind. And, even more profound, it leads to a rewriting of a life contract that, in its extension, offers us a writer whose unfolding talents provide unique inspiration that inside each of us lies the ability for our dreams to reveal our own infinite wisdom. Reading SHE WHO DREAMS may well change your life.
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Summary: She Who Dreams--Superlative and Active Dreamwork
Review: She Who Dreams: A Journey into Healing Through Dreamwork by Wanda Easter Burch is a deeply inspiring story of a woman's brave battle with breast cancer, an illness first revealed in dreams and later healed through dreams. She sets the stage early on with rich imagery of her experiences as a southern child whose beloved grandmother is a locally famous healer and dream appreciator. Later in life, Wanda Burch draws on the strength and wisdom of this childhood training as she journeys far and wide in her waking world and her dreamtime. Mystical experiences on an African sojourn precede her passage through the difficult medical treatments she faces, a journey in which four men play important roles as fellow travelers and guides--her dream appreciating husband and son, her deceased father, and her mentor and dream-sharing partner and friend, the well-known author and teacher Robert Moss. We accompany Wanda Burch on a treacherous healing path, and we empathize as she honestly discloses her fears and feelings--her dread of impending death that a recurring dream portends, her anger at delayed medical interventions and her bouts of deep depression. Yet these stormy seasons of her soul are tempered with an indomitable will to be healed at all levels of her being. Experiencing surgery and then chemotherapy with its dreadful side-effects never stops her from turning to her dreams for help and healing, and she recounts dreams, her ways of sharing and working with them, and using the wisdom she reaps from them. Tested to her depths, she emerges as a beacon to others, a Wounded Healer whose example offers the greatest hope of all to those of us who face life challenges. Her illness may have stolen her breast, but it didn't harm the caring heart beating beneath it, nor her sharp mind, nor her glowing spirit all of which are put to use as she rewrites her life contract and now walks on a new path as a Dream Guide and Dream Bringer to others. I highly recommend this book and its practical and purposeful exercises and advice, as well as the forward and appendix by Robert Moss, reminding us that we can heal ourselves and reach out to help others and our world if we follow the wisdom and guidance our dreams bring each and every night. ...
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Summary: She Who Dreams--Superlative and Active Dreamwork
Review: She Who Dreams: A Journey into Healing Through Dreamwork by Wanda Easter Burch is a deeply inspiring story of a woman's brave battle with breast cancer, an illness first revealed in dreams and later healed through dreams. She sets the stage early on with rich imagery of her experiences as a southern child whose beloved grandmother is a locally famous healer and dream appreciator. Later in life, Wanda Burch draws on the strength and wisdom of this childhood training as she journeys far and wide in her waking world and her dreamtime. Mystical experiences on an African sojourn precede her passage through the difficult medical treatments she faces, a journey in which four men play important roles as fellow travelers and guides--her dream appreciating husband and son, her deceased father, and her mentor and dream-sharing partner and friend, the well-known author and teacher Robert Moss. We accompany Wanda Burch on a treacherous healing path, and we empathize as she honestly discloses her fears and feelings--her dread of impending death that a recurring dream portends, her anger at delayed medical interventions and her bouts of deep depression. Yet these stormy seasons of her soul are tempered with an indomitable will to be healed at all levels of her being. Experiencing surgery and then chemotherapy with its dreadful side-effects never stops her from turning to her dreams for help and healing, and she recounts dreams, her ways of sharing and working with them, and using the wisdom she reaps from them. Tested to her depths, she emerges as a beacon to others, a Wounded Healer whose example offers the greatest hope of all to those of us who face life challenges. Her illness may have stolen her breast, but it didn't harm the caring heart beating beneath it, nor her sharp mind, nor her glowing spirit all of which are put to use as she rewrites her life contract and now walks on a new path as a Dream Guide and Dream Bringer to others. I highly recommend this book and its practical and purposeful exercises and advice, as well as the forward and appendix by Robert Moss, reminding us that we can heal ourselves and reach out to help others and our world if we follow the wisdom and guidance our dreams bring each and every night. ...
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Summary: The Power and Magic of the Dreaming
Review: This exquisitely written book is a "must read" for anyone even slightly interested in dreams. The author's honest and open writing style, make this a pure joy to read and one feels intimately connected to her by book's end. The courage she exhibits in dealing with a life-threatening disease foretold many years prior in her own dreaming, is both awe-inspiring and deeply moving. Robert Moss, the internationally-renowned author, teacher and shamanic pioneer in the field of Active Dreaming, writes a most beautiful foreword. His amazing friendship with the author is a magical and powerful story in its own right. We are offered, in this one volume, so many riches, that I found myself ordering copies for everyone on my holiday gift list, and thus sharing the beauty of the experience. Guarnteed to become a classic in the literature of dreams.
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