Your Own Wheeling to Healing: A Guide to Healing Yourself and Groups of People Who've Experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

James Encinas’s first book, Wheeling to Healing…Broken Heart on a Bicycle: Understanding and Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) built a foundation of hope for healing embedded memories of trauma from childhood. The second book, a companion, Your Own Wheeling to Healing, offers readers a way to own their process of healing, and to share it with others.

Selling Points: 

• Information and exercises in each of the 26 chapters offer hope for healing in support of the thesis of Encinas’s first book, Wheeling to Healing.
• Your Own Wheeling to Healing offers permission to form healing communities and empowers lay persons to create positive change in society.
• Making the essence of ACEs science useful to individuals and informal groups is the motivation behind Encinas’s work as a change-maker and thought leader.

Audience:

All readers of Wheeling to Healing who desire a way to put into place a gentle, yet dynamic way to foster healing in people with embedded childhood memories of trauma. Adolescents to senior citizens will find the descriptions and practices accessible and practical whether they use the book as a self-help guide or a curriculum to lead a community group.

A former actor and grade school teacher, now a parent education specialist, teacher trainer and public speaker, James Encinas uses his creative skills in experiential workshops to instruct participants about the impact of trauma on childhood development. The non-judgmental space he creates allows probationers to engage in healing their emotional damage, learn about prevention of future child abuse and domestic violence, and to educate teachers to work with students who live in unsafe environments. James wrote Wheeling to Healing...Broken Heart on a Bicycle: Understanding and Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences, a book and a 26-week curriculum. He is a Fellow from the first class of Aspen Institute's Teacher Leaders, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and an activist for healing.

Mary L. Holden has some favorite words: Letter, word, sentence, paragraph, reading, writing. These nouns and gerund forms of verbs represent her life's work, play and passion. Mary's goal as an editor is to uphold a writer's voice on the page and get them to see their manuscript in its best light. Mary offers developmental editing, line and content editing, ghostwriting and proofreading. As a self-employed freelance editor and writer, she's on the editorial staff of the MiniBuk company, and is a co-founder and partner of new72media in Oregon as well as Drafting Your Future in Arizona. She believes in supporting her community through volunteer work and is a member of Local First Arizona. Every year, Mary takes on certain editing projects pro bono. Several of her clients have learned English as their second language, and it has been her honor to assist them as they've developed and published their written work.

Dr. Chamberlain, an epidemiologist specializing in childhood exposure to violence and brain development, is the founding director of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project and a consultant for the Family Violence Prevention Fund. An internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr. Chamberlain is known for her ability to translate science into practical information with diverse audiences. Her passionate belief that everyone can make a difference conveys a message of hope and opportunity. Dr. Chamberlain holds faculty appointments at the University of Alaska and Johns Hopkins University. She earned her public health degree from Yale School of Medicine and her doctorate from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Chamberlain has published extensively and is editor for the e-journal, Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice. She serves on the National Advisory Board for the Institute for Safe Families. Awards and recognition for her work include a National Kellogg Leadership Fellowship. Living on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her husband and dog team, she has developed a highly innovative lecture series on leadership and teamwork called Lessons from the Trail and teaches a graduate course on public health and leadership. For her first book, Arctic Inspirations, she traveled from Alaska through the northern Canada and on to Siberia to gather stories of women starting businesses in the Arctic. She is currently working on a book on Mushing the Mail on the Iditarod Trail.