Donald Altman's Blog - Posts Tagged "healing"
Story Behind Travelers
I want to share the story behind why I wrote my novel Travelers.
Having worked in psychiatric clinics, I wanted to reveal the inner workings of the mental health system, where patients are all too often seen through the lens of pathology and a diagnostic code—rather than their innate sense of wholeness.
I believe that there are other ways of understanding mental illness that can awaken us to our wholeness and the mysterious divine that exists all around us. In Travelers, I wanted to explore spiritual initiation as a form of healing that can arise even from the darkness of grief and depression.
Lacking this broader understanding of who we are, I can only wonder if are we destined to become soulless machines? Travelers shows how awakening to our true selves and the beauty of each moment opens the door to love, healing, possibilities and miracles.
PS-- there's a Travelers Giveaway happening through the end of Jan. 2023.
Having worked in psychiatric clinics, I wanted to reveal the inner workings of the mental health system, where patients are all too often seen through the lens of pathology and a diagnostic code—rather than their innate sense of wholeness.
I believe that there are other ways of understanding mental illness that can awaken us to our wholeness and the mysterious divine that exists all around us. In Travelers, I wanted to explore spiritual initiation as a form of healing that can arise even from the darkness of grief and depression.
Lacking this broader understanding of who we are, I can only wonder if are we destined to become soulless machines? Travelers shows how awakening to our true selves and the beauty of each moment opens the door to love, healing, possibilities and miracles.
PS-- there's a Travelers Giveaway happening through the end of Jan. 2023.
