Healing Sex Gives Survivors the Confidence to Open Up

A great deal of survivors tend to have a difficult time with closeness with another person, finding themselves having to teach themselves boundaries and when any of us run into a little trouble and need help, there are shelves full of psychological insight, self help books, audio books, films and so on at our disposal. Healing Sex is a DVD that at first glance, you would think is just like the rest of the “self help” market, but once you watch it, it has the potential to really change your life and the way you look at intimacy.

Staci Haines has vast experience as a workshop leader and somatic practitioner and presents hands on exercises for you to practice either alone or with your partner for battling a lot of hurdles that survivors deal with when it comes to intimacy, such as disassociating during sex which I, as well as a great deal of survivors I speak with now have had problems with in our adult lives. Haines welcomes you into her workshops and one-on-one sessions and works with people to help them set boundaries in relationships and intimacy and teaches them how to express their desires, likes and dislikes. She gives us so much knowledge and draws upon her extensive experience to present educational and often triggering material in a comfortable and accessible way that will make you actually want to open up to your partner, now that you know how.

This DVD did wonders for me. I absolutely loved the way in which the material was presented and I especially loved that Haines doesn’t think, act or teach with the sense of false hope that she is a miracle worker. Healing from any kind of trauma takes a long time and a great deal of dedicated, hard work and the effects of childhood sexual assault have a tendency to follow survivors throughout their entire lives. This film shows you realistic ways to cope with your past and your present in terms of intimacy and overall relationships.

Army of Angels Conference - March 2009

Get tickets to the first annual Army of Angels Conference this coming March!

My new play will be performed as well as the amazing one-woman-show "TOTALLY Kimleigh!"
Check out Kimleigh at http://www.totallykimleigh.com/

Sword of Trauma

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These images are part of my new event - Removing the Sword of Trauma. You can contact my mom at events@angelashelton.com or joann@angelashelton.com to bring me to your community.

I love this program!

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Mary Lemons

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This is the social worker who saved me when I was 8. She is now a healer. I did an amazing session with her and I also got to meet one of her healing horses.

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Ellen Bass's new book, The Human Line

Ellen Bass cowrote The Courage to Heal for anyone who does not know.


Hi Angela,

I do have some great workshops coming up over the next year or so I'd love people to know about. I'd also be very grateful if you'd include anything about my recent book.

Many many thanks,

Ellen

"Ellen Bass's frighteningly personal poems about sex, love, birth, motherhood, and aging are kept from mere confession by the graces of wit, an observant eye, an empathetic heart, and just the right image deployed at just the right time. The Human Line is full of real stunners." —Billy Collins

Dear Friends & Writers,

I'm happy to announce that my new book, The Human Line, was recently published by Copper Canyon Press. It's available at your local bookstore or online.

Please scroll down for a schedule of workshops and poetry readings. I'd be grateful if you'd forward this to any friends who might be interested. Thank you for all your support,

Ellen

P.S. Please visit www.ellenbass.com to read poems from The Human Line.

More Praise for The Human Line:

"Ever since her first book, I have admired the tough, urgent, and wildly human poems of Ellen Bass. The Human Line deepens my regard for her necessary and indelible voice." --Thomas Lux

"There are some lovely poems in The Human Line, poems that live up to the splendid title, with all that it implies of our continuity in grief and joy. There are poems that cut deep into our sense of self and of primal relationships."--Carolyn Kizer

Ellen Bass is such a trustworthy guide -- awake to the certainty of death, to the irreconcilable losses, and to the daily imperfect reprieve of love. These are poems of quiet joy and true comfort. I read the book to the end, and then started, from the beginning, again." --Marie Howe

Upcoming Workshops:

September 5-7, 2008
The Writer's Life
Esalen, Big Sur, CA.
For more information and to register, visit www.esalen.org or call 831-667-3005

December 7-12, 2008
Writing & Knowing: A Poetry Workshop
taught by Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, and Joe Millar
Esalen, Big Sur, CA
For more information and to register, visit www.esalen.org or call 831-667-3005

April 24-26, 2009
White Lotus Poetry Workshop
with Ellen Bass
Rowe Conference Center
22 Kings Hwy
Rowe, MA
for more information call 413-339-4954 or visit rowecenter.org

May 27-31, 2009
Truth & Beauty
A Poetry Workshop with Ellen Bass & Marie Howe
Mabel Dodge Luhan Inn in Taos, New Mexico
For more info, email

ellen @ ellenbass.com

For an ongoing calendar of poetry readings and workshops, please visit www.ellenbass.com

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