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J.M. Seis' vision is to allow others to experience the beauty and power that is born in what we may consider our darkest experiences. She redefines how writing can become a ceremony of healing. Seis created a new genre, Ceremonial Memoir (TM) in order to transform a challenging time in her own life. A thirteen-year old girl in the process of discovering her sexual identity is placed in a state mental institution by her religious parents in 1969. Awakening Darknessis a story told by a young girl to her adult self. Decades of silenced experience erupt from an unheard past. Although many traumas occurred during that time period, a story of healing and transformation rises from the ashes. J.M. Seis takes us through a labyrinth of loss and redemption in her own life as a healer who has dedicated her life to ease suffering. She empowers the true self emerging out of darkness, acknowledging literal experiences, symbolic meaning, and mythic interactions. She brings to light the influence and guidance she gained from the Dark Mother Archetype and how important it is to reconnect the dark and the light aspects of the Divine Feminine in human consciousness. Awakening Darkness is a first person account of a gay child in a mental institution. Seis also portrays a feminist awakening by a young girl in a violent male dominant society where abuse of power is rampant. Along with the photos and drawings, this book illustrates a time in the history of mental health rarely written about.

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"""Your story is like those from the Jewish holocaust. Except your story is from our holocaust. I've reached my seventies hearing stories of lesbian and gay people who were forced into mental institutions by their families, but so far as I know, and I'm fairly familiar with much our literature, yours is the first one to reveal in detail the horrors perpetrated in those institutions to ""cure"" us. The photos you provide add all that much more visceral impact. There is no question that yours is a story that must be told."" Katherine V. Forrest, author of the Kate Delafield Series and editor at Naiad Press and Spinsters Ink. ""The memoir recounts a harrowing journey into psychic darkness. Sometimes excruciating, it exposes the raw underbelly of patriarchy, serving as a harsh indictment of US society in the 1960s. It is also an immensely compelling story of spiritual, sexual, and political awakening."" Lise Weil PhD, author of In Search of Pure Lust, founding editor of Trivia: Voices of Feminism"" and ""Dark Matter: Women Witnessing,"" faculty of ""Goddard Graduate Institute."" ""In Awakening Darkness, J. M. Seis demonstrates how she overcame a painful world unknown to most. In the face of tremendous challenges as a young teen, her story is one of resilience and renewal."" Merle R. Saferstein, author, educator, and creator of Living and Leaving Your Legacy(R) My love and admiration goes to J.M. Seis for her tremendous courage to claim and heal her past. It required a great love for humanity to share her deepest secrets and sorrows so others can heal. I am grateful that my dear sister/warrioress released this book. What I find most incredible is her ability to share her story so clearly without anger or revenge. Her love and dedication to her own healing is her gift to the healing of All. Luzclara www.luzclaramedicinewoman.com"

Your story is like those from the Jewish holocaust. Except your story is from our holocaust. I've reached my seventies hearing stories of lesbian and gay people who were forced into mental institutions by their families, but so far as I know, and I'm fairly familiar with much our literature, yours is the first one to reveal in detail the horrors perpetrated in those institutions to cure us. The photos you provide add all that much more visceral impact. There is no question that yours is a story that must be told. Katherine V. Forrest, author of the Kate Delafield Series and editor at Naiad Press and Spinsters Ink. The memoir recounts a harrowing journey into psychic darkness. Sometimes excruciating, it exposes the raw underbelly of patriarchy, serving as a harsh indictment of US society in the 1960s. It is also an immensely compelling story of spiritual, sexual, and political awakening. Lise Weil PhD, author of In Search of Pure Lust, founding editor of Trivia: Voices of Feminism and Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, faculty of Goddard Graduate Institute. In Awakening Darkness, J. M. Seis demonstrates how she overcame a painful world unknown to most. In the face of tremendous challenges as a young teen, her story is one of resilience and renewal. Merle R. Saferstein, author, educator, and creator of Living and Leaving Your Legacy(R) My love and admiration goes to J.M. Seis for her tremendous courage to claim and heal her past. It required a great love for humanity to share her deepest secrets and sorrows so others can heal. I am grateful that my dear sister/warrioress released this book. What I find most incredible is her ability to share her story so clearly without anger or revenge. Her love and dedication to her own healing is her gift to the healing of All. Luzclara www.luzclaramedicinewoman.com

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J.M. Seis, MA. has dedicated her life to awakening consciousness through personal healing. She is a teacher and shamanic practitioner specializing in Soul Retrieval, working with thousands of people since 1990. Seis was founder and president of a shamanic community educational non-profit organization, Pachamama Inc., from 1998 to 2008. Being a medicine woman requires breaking out of the ordinary. Medicine people may become awakened by overwhelming experiences that separate them from the collective, even casting them out for a period of time. A process of interacting with non-ordinary reality takes place that can include merging with an essential, supernatural presence, causing an extraordinary personal transformation. Once returned to ordinary life, medicine people, also known as shamans, are compelled into service for the benefit of their family, community, and the earth.

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