Taking the Stairs: A Journal of Self-Discovery STEP ONE: This is where the healing begins
Publisher: Scipioni Enterprises LLC
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1734214708
ISBN 13: 978-1734214703
Welcome. This is where the power begins.
Very few of us escape unscathed as we navigate this strange and wonderful thing called life, but there is a force within us that we can access, a drive that lifts us out of our pain and ushers us toward a brighter day.
This is the force that Julie Scipioni discovered as she healed from her trauma of a lifetime of abuse. In Taking the Stairs she shares it with you.
This force is the power of awareness.
No one can give you awareness. You can’t buy it, which means it is absolutely free to all who want it. Awareness is what you gain when you keep a journal. It’s hitting the pause button long enough to look around you, to examine where you’ve been and where you want to go. It is the lens through which you can dissect the choices you’ve made and consider the ones you’ve yet to make.
Awareness transforms you from victim to victor.
Taking the Stairs is not written by a therapist. It doesn’t dissect and discuss trauma and its ramifications in a detached or clinical way. It is the actual diary of a real woman - a woman like you - who spent years trying to "fix" her life until she finally learned to set herself free through the power of her own awareness.
In Taking the Stairs, Julie Scipioni shares the intimate details of her day-to-day experience of healing and self-discovery – through a process of recovery that is common across all kinds of trauma.
In Taking the Stairs, Julie exposes and reveals her most intimate and formidable struggles and her deepest fears as she faces divorce, emotional trauma, unemployment, poverty, and loneliness - all while answering critical questions for herself about life and love.
Who is Taking the Stairs for?
If you are longing to get out of an abusive relationship, but don’t feel strong enough, or are too afraid to step into the unknown, this book is for you.
If you have already found the courage to take that first step but need to know that you are not alone in your struggle, this book is for you.
If you are struggling with or seeking to heal from any kind of emotional or physical trauma, and you need to know that others have walked the path and made it through safely to the other side, this book is for you.
If you are in a helping profession, or if someone you love is facing or has faced abuse, this book will open your eyes to their struggle in new ways that will enable you to be truly empathic and supportive.
In the pages of Taking the Stairs you will find wisdom, poetry, humor, and encouragement for your own quest to create greater love and happiness in your life, free from abuse and ready to begin again.
It all started with a dream - you won't believe how it turned out.
"Julie Scipioni is an exceptionally gifted writer. Her word pictures and analogies are brilliant. She reaches deep into the heart and soul of the reader and touches even the most secret places." ~Writer's Digest Magazine