Dreaming Kevin: The Path to Healing: 2014 Expanded Edition - Softcover

Blowey, Carla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692260560 ISBN 13: 9780692260562

Publisher: Dreaming Kevin Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Dreaming Kevin: The Path to Healing, 2014 Expanded Edition, is the compelling story of a bereaved mother in search of her son in the dream time. Carla Blowey shares her quest to interpret an ominous dream predicting the death of her five-year-old son, Kevin, just hours before he died in a bicycle accident. This living nightmare heralds the many numinous dreams and synchronistic events offering her forgiveness, healing, spiritual growth, and new life. Weaving excerpts from her personal dream journal throughout this intimate narrative, Carla shares her most desperate moments in grief, and her extraordinary encounters with Kevin in the dream time. In this 2014 expanded edition, Carla includes an Afterword proposing the idea that our dreams reveal the hidden issues that block the path to healing during a range of life transitions from birth to death. Carla challenges dreamers and grievers to ask, “What does it really mean to be healed?” “How is our perception of grief and loss inhibiting healing in our lives?” “Why does the pursuit of healing trigger such volatile reactions of resistance?” Quite unexpectedly, while Carla was writing the Afterword on healing, a subsequent section evolved. “Notes from the Children” features interviews with the children of Dreaming Kevin. Carla believed that the children who experienced Kevin’s death first hand, and those who experienced it through their parents or from a distance, shared a bond not only with Kevin but also with one another. She wondered, “How deep is their trauma?" "What is their perspective of this life-changing event now that they are young adults and parents?” For the first time, the children of Dreaming Kevin share their experiences and perception of Kevin’s death and their grief, with each other and with Amber. The result is an astounding unedited, spontaneous, and universal dialogue on their silent and unseen grief. In a surprising ending, Dreaming Kevin comes full circle with an amazing gift from Kevin to Amber, his sister...23 years later.

About this title

From the Author:

The original version of Dreaming Kevin was published in 2002 - an intimate narrative written for and dedicated to our daughter Amber who was just eight-years-old at the time of her brother's death (1991). Given the extraordinary events that I experienced in the dreamtime, I wanted Amber to know my story first-hand. I hoped that with maturity and time she would come to terms with her own grief, and that Dreaming Kevin would offer another perspective.  With this 2014 expanded edition featuring the original story and new content - our story- comes full circle with an amazing gift from Kevin to Amber...23 years later.

From the Back Cover:

"Carla Blowey's journey into the world of dreams, parental grief, and the realms of reconciliation and healing beyond these thresholds, is truly moving, profound, and of great value to anyone, whether or not they have had similar experiences in the waking world. Dreaming Kevin is a work of grace, skill, and dedication to the deeper truth - it is not to be missed!"  
Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.Min., Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill, Co-founder and Past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, (IASD), Founder-Director of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work, (MIPD), Member of the Board of the Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries (UUSCM)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dreaming Kevin Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692260560
• ISBN 13: 9780692260562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 363