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Healing Myself: A Hero's Primer for Recovery from Trauma
If you are suffering from pain. . .If someone you love is suffering from pain. . .If you'd give anything to be able to overcome that pain, without drugs. . .If you need inspiration from someone who has "been there". . .This book is for you. In 1982, Gari Carter's old life abruptly ended. A head-on car crash destroyed much of her face. Ahead were almost ten years of operations that gradually rebuilt her jaws, cheek-bones, nose, and gums. Ahead lay months of helplessness, pain, anxiety, and depression. Ahead lay overwhelming fear of pain. But ahead lay much more. Healing Myself is the story of one woman's successful battle to rise above pain and despair. But it's about more than pain. It's about the elation she felt as she gained control of her suffering. It's about the lessons she learned from hard experience-lessons in patience, love, and proper priorities. Perhaps most astoundingly, it's about her discovery of a series of commercially-produced audio pain-control tapes that changed her multiple-hour operations from ordeals to be dreaded into challenges to be met calmly and confidently-without anesthetics!
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1993
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About the author
Gari Carter
4 books13 followersGrownups telling family history about relatives in the Civil War are Gari’s earliest memories. Her instructions were to learn the stories and pass them on to the next generations.
Gari graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and studied at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, and Middlebury College. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and English. She held positions in Washington at the Embassy of Bolivia and the Embassy of France; worked for Frontier Airlines, taught French and Spanish, and opened and ran a successful clothing & gift shop in Virginia.
Her life then changed abruptly, as she describes in her first book, Healing Myself. Gari and her eleven-year-old son were driving to a gift show to find more items for her shop before her next buying trip to New York, when they were hit head-on by a car in a snowstorm. Gari’s son had learned CPR the week before in Cub Scouts, and he revived his unconscious mother as she was having a near-death experience. Gari’s next ten years were spent in facial surgical reconstruction, using the Monroe Institute’s audio Surgical Support Series to control pain without anesthesia and medication.
Her second book, Troubled State: The Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick, took her ten years of research about the diaries of her great-great grandfather and his first-hand account of the initial Civil War event in St. Louis, and his correspondence with President Lincoln as Provost Marshall General of Missouri.
Gari has finished researching and writing about the Civil War journal of her great-grandfather Col. William James Leonard, leader of Maryland’s Purnell Legion. He was captured and incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond. The book, titled The Bone Ring, is named for an heirloom still in her family: the ring that Col. Leonard’s men carved him for his birthday from the leftover bones of their food.
Gari graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and studied at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, and Middlebury College. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and English. She held positions in Washington at the Embassy of Bolivia and the Embassy of France; worked for Frontier Airlines, taught French and Spanish, and opened and ran a successful clothing & gift shop in Virginia.
Her life then changed abruptly, as she describes in her first book, Healing Myself. Gari and her eleven-year-old son were driving to a gift show to find more items for her shop before her next buying trip to New York, when they were hit head-on by a car in a snowstorm. Gari’s son had learned CPR the week before in Cub Scouts, and he revived his unconscious mother as she was having a near-death experience. Gari’s next ten years were spent in facial surgical reconstruction, using the Monroe Institute’s audio Surgical Support Series to control pain without anesthesia and medication.
Her second book, Troubled State: The Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick, took her ten years of research about the diaries of her great-great grandfather and his first-hand account of the initial Civil War event in St. Louis, and his correspondence with President Lincoln as Provost Marshall General of Missouri.
Gari has finished researching and writing about the Civil War journal of her great-grandfather Col. William James Leonard, leader of Maryland’s Purnell Legion. He was captured and incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond. The book, titled The Bone Ring, is named for an heirloom still in her family: the ring that Col. Leonard’s men carved him for his birthday from the leftover bones of their food.
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March 14, 2023
I know the author personally and can recommend this book to anyone going through major life changes, not just major auto accident recoveries, because the author's journey is immensely empowering to anyone who has to make hard decisions regarding their survival in order to thrive after a significant loss or setback. This is an example of a real hero's journey. Uplifting.
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