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    Touching Stories
    Touching Stories
    Touching Stories
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    Touching Stories

    By Dr. Erica Goodstone

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    Healing happens when we feel safe, supported and enabled to face our life. When we acknowledge our self doubts, insecurities, fears and anxieties as well as our strengths and love, we are then ready to share our strength and love with others. In a supportive and caring environment, we can slowly heal from the inside out. Real stories of real people show us how we can heal through loving touch.

    Our body does not lie. When we listen to the messages we receive from our body (aches and pains, injuries in specific organs, discomfort, dis-ease), we discover what we really want and need in our life. Once we know, with certainty and clarity, we can go out into the world fearlessly living with our integrity intact. We can then share loving relationships with others.

    In this book, we explore the healing potential of body therapy which includes talk, often known as body oriented psychotherapy or body psychotherapy. The healing is revealed through stories of real people's lives. These stories are excerpts of actual case histories, therapy sessions, emotional responses, and eventual healing that took place in my office. Names and identifying personal characteristics have been altered to protect anonymity. None of my clients will be able to say with certainty, "That's me!" Yet, as we read these stories, each of us may recognize something familiar within ourselves.

    We meet with our body psychotherapist at the level of our soul. There is no judgment, shame, good or bad, weak or strong. There is only love, truth and pure connection. The forces that have kept us in a state of fear seem to miraculously lose their power and disappear. Once we have experienced soul connection in a private body psychotherapy session, we can then go out into the world transformed, seeking that same soul connection with others.

    Our body reveals us to the world, to each other, and to our self. Through our energy and through touch, with or without words, we are known. As we discover that hiding is an illusion, we begin to relax our defenses. We discover that we are all longing to be accepted and loved. Scientists who study the universe, from the tiniest particles to the vastness of infinity, ultimately discover that love, attraction and repulsion rule the universe. Through body psychotherapy, as we learn to love and accept our self and others, intimacy becomes our natural way of being.

    Our body does not lie. The way we hold and move our body is the key to understanding our self and reaching our full human potential. When we recognize and express our deepest feelings, the cells in our body respond accordingly. Our tissues soften, our posture lengthens and widens, and we view our world with greater clarity.

    In body psychotherapy, both therapist and client are on a sacred healing journey together. We not only touch each other, we also explore together the deeper psychological, symbolic and interpersonal meanings in our life. When we are touched, we are no longer the person we pretend to be, want to be, or perceive our self to be. Feelings sometimes intensify, but over time the intensity gradually diminishes. We build a solid base of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-love.

    Body psychotherapy is about life, your life, my life, and our lives together on this earth. Being willing to feel and express our raw emotions, we have the rare opportunity to release the pain and anguish inherent in the human condition. We can actually live the remainder of our lives in a state of peaceful joy, more readily willing to acknowledge, accept, and love our most intimate partners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Erica Goodstone
    Release dateAug 6, 2014
    ISBN9781310975394
    Touching Stories
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    Dr. Erica Goodstone

    Dr. Erica Goodstone, is a Spiritual Relationship Healing Expert Helping Men and Women Heal Their Bodies and Their Relationships through Love. She believes “Where There Is Love There IS A Way” and “If We Feel Loved and Loving We Cannot Choose To Hurt or Harm Anyone Else.” Dr. Erica’s life work is about creating love, healing through love, and sharing her insights, research and wisdom about what it takes to love and be loved in return. As an Author, Seminar Leader, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Marriage Therapist, Board Certified Sex Therapist, Somatic/Body Oriented Psychotherapist, and Personal/Life and Health/Wellness Coach, Dr. Erica has helped thousands of men and women to get back that loving feeling and sense of personal worth. As a former Professor of Health and Physical Education at FIT/State University of New York and having trained in a variety of body therapy and body mind therapeutic methods, Dr. Erica knows a lot about the way the body functions, the way our mind influences our body and how our body reveals our inner thoughts whether we listen or not. A perpetual student of spirituality and higher consciousness, Dr. Erica has gradually developed a comprehensive understanding of the mind/body/spirit connection. In her work with individuals and couples, heterosexual and homosexual, she has been a catalyst for relationship transformation. Her goal is to create a space in which clients feel accepted, acknowledged, appreciated and safe enough to express their deepest fears, reveal their own unique magnificence, and acknowledge their true desire to love and be loved. Selected as one of the Top 20 Showcased Authors out of 400,000 authors at Ezinearticles.com: http://budurl.com/Top20EzineAuthor. former Official Guide to Intimacy at SelfGrowth.com, and featured in Who’s Who in Poetry 2012, Dr. Erica has been featured as a Top Recommended Professional on CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX. Her very popular book: Love Me, Touch Me, Heal Me: The Path to Physical, Emotional, Sexual and Spiritual Reawakening is available as a complete book, a complete E book, 4 smaller books and ebooks as well as 12 smaller Kindle and Smashword books. Hire her to speak: http://www.DrEricaGoodstone.com Read her blogs: http://www.CreateHealingAndLoveNow.com/blog Create loving relationships with her virtual courses: http://www.drericagoodstone.com/courses/ Schedule an appointment: http://www.DrEricaWellness.com

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      Touching Stories - Dr. Erica Goodstone

      Title

      Touching Stories

      Healing Through Touch

      Body Psychotherapy

      The stories herein are excerpts of actual case histories, therapy sessions, and emotional responses, focusing on the healing potential of body psychotherapy, where healing took place

      Author:

      Erica Goodstone, Ph.D., LMHC

      Smashwords Edition

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      CreateHealingAndLoveNow.com Publishing

      ISBN: 9781310975394

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      Acknowledgment:

      The Love Me, Touch Me, Heal Me book series was inspired by my teachers and mentors

      Ken Keyes, Jr., author of The Handbook to Higher Consciousness and director of the Cornucoipa Center Living LoveTrainings

      Ilana Rubenfeld, one of the first female conductors, author of The Listening Hand, and creator of the life changing Rubenfeld Synergy Method of talk and touch which became the framework for all of my counseling and healing work.

      Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, innovators and creators of the original Sexual Therapy Trainings and

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