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Child Abuse and Family Violence Healing

Transformational Journaling Transformed my Life
Now it can transform yours, too.

Hello, I’m Debra Wingfield and I am an incest survivor... 

As an adult, I turned my experience into an opportunity to help others as I was helped to heal. 

The primary tool that helped me heal was Transformational Journaling. Transformational Journaling was the key to recovering my soul from being sexually abused by my father.  I want to tell you how I found out about Transformational Journaling and what it did for me. 

Although I always remembered the incidents of sexual abuse, I never faced the impact on my life until I was in my 30s and coming out of my second divorce.  I didn't realize how much the abuse affected every area of my life. 

I started attending Al-Anon meetings when I was married to my second husband.  I went to Al-Anon to learn about alcoholism because I was clueless about my second husband's drinking.  I wanted to know how I could help him to stop drinking. 

Of course, the first thing I learned was I couldn't stop him from drinking. 

The only thing I could do was look at the choices I was making in my life. As I worked the 12-steps, it quickly became apparent to my sponsor and other people in the group that I had issues unrelated to the alcoholism.  I shared with my sponsor about the sexual abuse in my childhood and she encouraged me to use the 12-steps to heal.  The more I wrote using the 12-steps as a guide, the more I realized I needed additional information.

By this time I was separated from my second husband.  I listened to various teachers about codependency and dysfunctional families.  I devoured books written by authors on these subjects.  The more I learned, the more I wrote in my journal.  As I drew from various authors guidelines for what I needed to address, I slowly transformed myself from being a victim to being a survivor of sexual abuse/incest.  Eventually, I re-created my life.

As a trained counselor, I realized there were many abuse survivors who were looking for the same kind of help that I discovered.  I decided to take everything I learned to help myself and develop a program for abuse survivors and other people from dysfunctional family systems.  I started my program in 1988 and attracted many survivors and codependents.  I shared the Transformational Journaling techniques I used with my clients. 

 

Now, those techniques are available for your clients through
From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey
Transformational Journaling for Healing Souls™ --Step 1
Because I lived through the process of healing my soul and re-creating my life, I decided to pass on the techniques I used for your clients. 

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