To Be You Again is dedicated to all who suffer because their power and well-being have been violently stolen from them.
In this deeply empowering guide to healing, author Patricia Drury Sidman draws from both her personal experience dealing with the trauma of being raped and the insights she has gained as a professional life coach and spiritual counselor. Taking a down-to-earth conversational approach, she addresses this difficult subject with uncommon openness and grace.
Sidman briefly shares her own story before launching a discussion about cultural attitudes and emotional responses, emphasizing the essential point that becoming the victim of violence is never your fault.
She goes on to address issues pertaining to your body, such as the importance of a healthy lifestyle and the ineffectiveness of "numbing out," adding that tools like journaling and positive self-talk illustrate the power of words. And to nurture spiritual healing, Sidman suggests a number of helpful strategies that include meditation, prayer, and gratitude.
With chapters on getting help, letting go, dos and don'ts for friends and family, and perspectives on becoming you again, Sidman offers the practical advice and encouragement that make this book a powerful aid to finding your own path to recovery.
About the Author: Patricia Drury Sidman draws from her experiences as both a professional with coaching and spiritual training and a determined rape survivor for her book To Be You Again, an uplifting guide to the healing and recovery processes for victims of violence.
Holding a BA in philosophy and an MBA with a focus on the nonprofit and public sectors from Stanford University, Sidman has worked as a health care policy analyst, business consultant, and manager.
An urge to help others in need of healing led her to become an ordained Gnostic priest in 2002 and gain certification as a professional life coach from the Coach Training Institute in 2006. Since then, she has provided life, health, and spiritual coaching to hundreds of clients, many of whom have also been survivors of violence.
Sidman lives with her husband, Bob, in Lafayette, Louisiana, where she continues to coach clients.
