My memoir is now available to purchase on Amazon.
Back cover blurb…
“One brief, bewildering encounter in my infancy left an invisible imprint that shaped my relationships, my choices, and my sense of self. For years, the memory lay buried in my body—unspoken, but not unfelt.
Ballroom dancing became my unexpected lifeline: a space where forgotten memories surfaced through movement, and where feeling found form. As I later trained as a Gestalt therapeutic practitioner and dance movement psychotherapist, I began to piece together what had happened to me, how it had defined the man I became, and how it might finally be transformed.
This memoir follows my journey from a voiceless infant to an adult able to name, embody, and reimagine his own story—offering readers a vivid exploration of trauma, memory, healing, and the surprising ways that dance can open a path to resilience and a different kind of freedom.”
Yes, there is a level of personal life disclosure, however, that is far outwayed by the potential benefit of education and information for targetted readers or those who have an interest in the subject matter.
This book, therefore, is aimed at therapeutic, psychotherapeutic counsellors, psychotherapists and arts therapists, and those who have had experience of or know someone who has been affected by historical childhood sexual abuse and developmental relational trauma.
That said, it is also a book about striving to achieve personal and professional standing, health and wellbeing. For me, it is also testimony to the benefit of ‘writing as therapy’.
Any royalties accrued will be donated to the Shakespeare Hospice, Sttratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
(https://www.theshakespearehospice.org.uk/support-us/donate/), who looked after my father in 2018 so well in delivering palliative care at home.
Paul V Ricketts 