LOVING HANDS

Loving Hands: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey, is the third book of the A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey series. This book is about Abby who runs Loving Hands Cat Rescue and chooses to become the guardian for Melody and Stef and starts as an interview between her and a journalist who also needs the intervening love of Abby. Abby has been chosen to be honored in a magazine spread recognizing 30 World Changers Under 30 for Career Magazine in the Not For Profit category. She has been given this honor because of her formation and success of C-PTSD MEOW which stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Survivors Making Excellent OWners.

Abby, who grew up in a very healthy family dynamic, learns about Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) through taking in and trying to establish a solid and healthy relationship with Melody and Stef based upon love and trust. Abby, who was only twenty five when she became the legal guardian of Melody and Stef, suddenly is the parent to two teenagers. Abby cannot understand why Melody never leaves her side and Stef fights and screams at her to stay away. With the guidance of her mother and her background in psychology, she learns everything she can about C-PTSD, which is not even recognized in the DSM-IV. Abby realizes that two of her rescue cats, Callie and Sunny, are the key to Melody and Stef's healing and has the idea that she could expand the service of having rescued cats be trained to rescue their owners. This is the beginning of C-PTSD MEOW.

Abby meets Pastor Brett and realizes that a major factor keeping people from receiving Trauma Informed Therapy is the cost. Brett reaches out to his congregation to collect money for C-PTSD Survivors to be able to recieve the much needed and specialized therapy. Then, Abby and Brett decide to reach out other churches and community support groups to teach about C-PTSD and then to collect funds for the cost of therapy with the intent of making a generational impact towards healing. These brave C-PTSD Survivors are willing to courageously take the first step towards whole body health and break the cycle of generational trauma and sin. Then, with the referral from their therapist who feels that their patient would be a good candidate to be matched with a trained rescue cat who can help their client to recognize their rising cortisol and stress levels and take the necessary steps to create inner peace and calm. Loving Hands: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey is a tale of helping those who are diagnosed with C-PTSD to embrace wholeness and generational calm as the survivor's children may know trauma, but thier grandchildren are able to have a clean chance to know normalcy; healing is a real possibility.