Have you ever experienced something so intense that it plays like a never-ending loop in your mind? Maybe it was shocking, terrifying, or left an emotional and physical mark. Or perhaps someone you care about has gone through something similar.

If this resonates with you, you're not alone. Author Catherine Brooks invites you on a journey of healing and growth. In this book, she shares personal stories and insights from others, diving deep into the trauma experience and offering practical tools and resources to help along the way.

You don’t have to carry the weight of the past any longer. You have the power to break the cycle and prevent trauma from impacting future generations. Healing is hard work, but it’s transformative. As you turn these pages, you’ll find education, empowerment, and encouragement to embrace the healing process.

AUTHOR

Catherine Brooks grew up in rural Pennsylvania and was a farmer’s daughter. After completing her master’s degree at The Pennsylvania State University in 1992, she and her sled dog headed north to Alaska. Catherine worked various jobs in interior Alaska over the next three decades, including a youth development specialist, business owner, nonprofit director, tourism operator, office assistant and manager, lab technician, professor, and local government specialist. She especially loved her time teaching at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development. Catherine swears she had the best students in the world in the program. She was honored with emeritus status in May 2024. Her husband has been beside her for the majority of the journey. They have been blessed with three wonderful children and three incredible grandchildren. They currently own Write22 together, where she loves to encourage, empower, and educate people. Her husband creates beautiful antler jewelry inspired by his Alaska Native heritage and growing up in a subsistence lifestyle. She and her family call Fairbanks, Alaska, home but spend most of the summer on the Yukon River at her husband’s family fish camp, where skills and traditions are shared with the next generation.