’88 Days: Road to Recovery from Trauma’
88 days: Road to Recovery from Trauma is a unique ‘grief model of change’. To renew our passion for life after trauma we must travel through four quadrants, or stages, on our journey. The road is as long or as short as you need. Help is here now in a step-by-step guide in this beautifully illustrated devotional-style chronicle.
Ponder. Perceive. Breathe.
Wendy Manzo’s books are available through Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle eBook versions. She has a passion to inspire you!
After a decade of writing John Fairfax & Sons magazine group Sungravure, Wendy spent 30+ years creating beautiful bespoke jewellery and original paintings, returning to her journalistic origins in 2018 to publish several books. ’88 Days’ is her third book and the first collaboration with her husband, Andrew H Smith.
In its first days of publication ’88 Days: Road to Recovery from Trauma’ was voted Amazon #1 Bestseller in its category.
Reviews:
“LOVED this book so much both for myself and my family and it’s currently featured at my workplace as a daily meditation piece 🥰 Beautiful large images that draw you in and insight with clear guidance and wisdom from trusted people this book is a treasure to nurture the spirit towards wholeness! ❤️” A.K. ~ Australia
“This compilation of digital art is a creative devotional of dealing with unresolved pain and trauma. The art is amazing and powerful. It touches hidden parts of one’s soul. In one word: Brilliant!” T. ~ Europe
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88 days: Road to Recovery from Trauma. It may be 88 hours or 88 weeks, the pathway is the same. When something traumatic happens that disrupts our ‘normal’, there are processes we must travel through to recover our passion for life.
’88 Days: Road to Recovery from Trauma‘ presents a four-stage sequence of the journey from shock to recovery. Based on Andrew H. Smith’s Grief Model of Change© these four stages can be used by anyone, anywhere, in almost any situation that requires us to process trauma and manage change.
Traumatic Event – Safety Zone – Acceptance – Accommodate
We must travel through these quadrants –and not remain in them.
From the initial reaction to the ‘traumatic event’ at Stage One, we hesitantly breathe again in the ‘safety zone’ of Stage Two, until we begin venturing out to try a new life, with new ways, in the ‘acceptance’ of Stage Three. Finally, we fully live again in the Stage Four of ‘accommodate’, stable and able to participate in a new life, having moved through the trauma to recovery. If we try to skip ahead in the sequence, we find ourselves re-traumatised or simply plain stuck. Frozen in time. Some people stay caught in their trauma for much longer than needed. Life is too short. Help is here now. Help for healing, clarity, and direction. We do not have to be imprisoned or ‘triggered’ by our traumatic events, we can choose when to trade-in our grief and change our life.
Writing from both lived experience and in-depth study in psychology and neuroscience, Andrew H. Smith turns the “psychobabble” into “real” talk for us. He speaks directly to our hearts bringing healing to our wounds.
Wendy Manzo, artist and writer, includes beautifully digitally illustrated affirmations in a devotional-style chronicle that allows you to absorb each stage and move through the journey to recovery at your own pace.
Ponder. Perceive. Breathe.
About the Author
Artist, writer, and jewellery designer, Wendy Manzo is a creative entrepreneur on a quest to inspire. After a decade in journalism, Wendy spent 30+ years as owner and master-designer at Wendy Manzo Diamonds and 10 years pioneering live worship painting with DaySpring Church, Sydney. Wendy currently runs the Creative Hearts Art gallery and paints prophetically. Her passion is mentoring and releasing artists and writers in their full creative potential. She is the author of several books and a blog, The Prophetic Artist. Wendy enjoys academic study and traveling with the love of her life, her husband Andrew. Together they have three adult children presently living on three different continents.
