Stark raving zen : a memoir of coming alive

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Label

Stark raving zen : a memoir of coming alive

Title remainder

a memoir of coming alive

Statement of responsibility

Kristy Sweetland ; illustrations: Nana Nishigaki

Creator

• Sweetland, Kristy

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Sweetland, Kristy

Subject

• Mental fatigue -- Personal narratives
• Neurasthenia -- Personal narratives
• Private revelations
• Psychic ability -- Personal narratives
• Psychic trauma -- Personal narratives
• Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Personal narratives
• Self-realization -- Personal narratives
• Spiritual biography -- United States
• Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Biography
• Sweetland, Kristy
• Travel -- Psychological aspects
• Visions -- Personal narratives
• Well-being
• Spiritual life
• Electronic books

Genre

• Personal narratives
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Stark Raving Zen is the story of how one woman came home to her soul on a road trip from Minnesota to California, a journey both terrifying and beautiful. Her only physical companion through each stage of this sudden awakening was her dog, Arya, who kept her grounded through shocking revelations, heavenly and hellish visionary experiences, and an intuitive opening including a voice in her left ear that guided her, working to keep her safe as her mind unraveled. This heroine's journey is also the story of Kristy Sweetland's life, including a childhood and young adulthood of trying to desperately control a chaotic family history filled with a parental legacy of addiction and mental illness that kept her psyche locked in a perpetual state of survival. After an outwardly successful career in the field of veterinary medicine, (while inwardly falling apart), she finally hit the wall, left her twenty-year profession, loaded Arya into her car and headed southwest on what she thought was a trip to see a mentor and counselor in California. As it turns out her soul had wildly different plans. This riveting true story of a road trip filled with benevolent ghosts and gods, angels, demons, monsters, mythology, and guiding voices will keep the reader glued to the page for the duration. Through the volcanic gift of those ten days on the road in January of 2009, Kristy broke through her own chains forged of trauma, and finally came alive

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

158.1

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult