Beyond These Walls: The True Story of a Lost Child's Journey to a Whole Life

Beyond These Walls: The true story of a lost child's journey to wholeness is the story of a client living with Dissassociative Identity Disorder, (DID), and her painful journey to a whole life. After years of horrific abuse, Hanna believed that her only option was to choose death ? until she met Rachel. Rachel's ability to love and nurture Hanna within the context of a trusting, helping relationship, convinced Hanna to choose life.The book is presented from these two points-of-view. A therapist, with thirty years of experience presents her humanistic, unconventional methods in order to gain a client's trust; and client, whose own unfiltered words and pictures provide the reader with the stark reality of her struggle. Beyond These Walls describes how this unique therapist-client relationship helped integrate 26 distinct personalities of different gender and states of physical health into a whole person. Above all, it is a book about hope and the celebration of life.