Wounds Into Blessings

Wounds into Blessings is that journey into the mysterious world of the healing work of Fred Mitouer and his sacred gift. It is a hands-on story of rare human intimacy at the edge of body and soul by a forty-year veteran bodyworker who takes the reader through a narrative arc of many client stories and his personal reflections about them. Implicit throughout is the dynamic tension between the unhealed wound and healing energy. We see how wound management-(and the accompanying pain and sense of limitation, victimization and despair)-results when healing energy cannot make contact with the wounded place. And we witness, when contact is made, how healing energy organizes a cleansing and rebuilding experience and re-establishes harmony and vitality on bodily, emotional and spiritual levels. Ultimately, Wounds into Blessings is a book about compassion and courage and light that can help us enlighten the darkness in our lives with greater dignity as we wrestle with, and embrace, our humanity and our ordinary life, our mortality and the ineffable forces of Grace. Fred Mitouer is a body-mind healer with great intuition and insight as well astremendous courage. Wounds into Blessings captures both his vision of the healingvortex and offers valuable knowledge and perspective on the specifics of how he workswith clients. This is a must read for healers of all persuasions who want to include thebody in the healing process. PHILLIP MOFFITT, Author of Emotional Chaos to Clarity and Dancing with LifeHealing is the death of our wounded identity, says Fred Mitouer, master teacher andsomatic practitioner. His work, Wounds Into Blessings chronicles his experience ofmore than twenty-five years playing and working in the interconnected labyrinth ofmind, body and spirit. The wisdom springs off the pages with every story, especially hisown. If you are intrigued with the idea that everything is relatedness....you will lovethis work. TERRY PEARCE, Founder/President, Leadership CommunicationThis is a rare book, and precious for the wisdom it opens to us. I am grateful to FredMitouer for opening truths that almost always are kept secret. To be able to enter themind and heart of a true healer and accompany him in his work is a great gift. And tobe touched by the intimate, vulnerable truths of those with the courage to persevere intheir healing journey is a privilege and inspiration. In short, reading Wounds Into Blessings is a profound, deeply humanizing experience. SHERRY RUTH ANDERSON, Author The Feminine Face of God and Ripening Time: Inside Stories for Aging GracefullyOriginal and authentic. A wise, richly metaphorical and beautifully evoked twenty five-year journey by a master healer and somatic therapist, revealing how hisdisarmament of fertile wounds knotted in the flesh can renew souls and revivify lives. MARTY KRASNEY, Executive Director, Dalai Lama FellowsA game changer Top down psychosomatic perception is turned on its head inFred Mitouer's Wounds into Blessings; finally, the body gets to speak its mind. Ineloquent philosophical reflections about his somatic practice, Dr. Mitouer gives us agritty and graceful inside view of the humanity and rigor that real healing demands.From falling down and getting up, through disillusionment and redemption, toremembering the unity we forgot because of all the struggle -- there's somethinghere for everyone. THE HONORABLE RUSSELL REDENBAUGH, Former Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil RightsWhen someone who has achieved Mastership in an area and then writes a bookabout it, that book is always a must read. When Fred Mitouer presents us with thisremarkable book that summarizes the past 25 years of his professional practice, then it needs to be a required reading. Wounds Into Blessings will deeply appealto anyone who is even remotely interested in consciousness in general and theconsciousness of the body more specifically. This book will be of assistance in yo