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    • Carroll Arkema
    • Carroll E. Arkema is an ordained Presbyterian minister serving as a Pastoral Psychotherapist. He is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and as a Psychoanalyst, practicing in Ridgewood, New Jersey..
      He has had four books published, all by Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, Eugene, OR: “Beyond Me: Poems about Spirit in Scripture, Psychotherapy, and Life,” 2014; “Poems of Mourning and Healing Memory,” 2017; “Drawn to the Light: Poems and Essays,” 2019; and “Poetry Zooms In: On the Sacred in Persons and World,” 2022.

The Rebel Jesus and Trauma Therapy with the Divine Inner Child

If the sacredness of a person is not acknowledged, or is mistreated, the child or Spirit within will go into hiding until it may be safe again to emerge, to be healed, become whole/holy.

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Poems of Mourning and Healing Memory

The book begins with the author’s father—and the author himself— dealing with the death of wife and mother. It continues with the author’s powerful encounter with his dying father, then proceeds with poems mourning his father’s death and its aftermath.

The second half of the book contains poems which remember and honor significant people and experiences in the author’s life. As a pastoral psychotherapist, the author finds the Bible and spirituality to be major healing resources, along with memories of some key people he writes about who have helped him grow and heal in his life. What happens in writing is a mysterious and awesome thing, and the very process of remembering and writing these poems has helped the author mourn and find some healing.

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