PTSDreams

Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork

Publication date September 8, 2022

PTSDreams

Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork

Nightmares, especially those caused by trauma, not only disrupt your sleep but can leave you exhausted, on edge, and haunt your daylight hours. With in-depth information on the nature of nightmares, international speaker, author, and psychotherapist Linda Yael Schiller shows you how to turn anxiety filled or heart pounding dreams into resources for spiritual growth. Her four decades of experience in both dreamwork and trauma treatment provide the reader with guidelines for turning PTSDreams into PTSG: Post Trauma Spiritual Growth.

Armed with effective techniques and her warm compassionate voice, you can learn to safely heal post-traumatic nightmares and their root causes. Linda teaches the Guided Active Imagination Approach (GAIA), a method she developed based on best-practice trauma treatment and Jungian active imagination principles. Through compelling case descriptions and thoughtful exercises , you will learn how to apply a multiplicity of integrated and embodied dreamwork techniques as well as somatic, narrative, and psycho-spiritual approaches. Combining neuroscience, healing, mysticism, and creativity, PTSDreams helps you transform nightmares into a new story: one of hope, healing, and life-affirming images.

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About The Author

Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW is a body, mind and spiritual psychotherapist, author, consultant, and international speaker. She has been working in the fields of dreamwork and trauma treatment for 40 years. Trained in a number of integrated trauma treatment modalities, she teaches and consults on trauma treatment, PTSD, and nightmares. Her original work on understanding layers of a dream through a Kaballah-based approach, and her nightmare protocol of the GAIA method (Guided Active Imagination Approach) are articulated in her new book.  Linda also developed original theory on relational group work as professor at Boston University, and has authored Modern Dreamwork, the workbook Integrated and Comprehensive Treatment of Trauma,  numerous articles, book chapters,  and been featured on multiple podcasts and radio shows. She is a dancer, loves traveling and historical novels and science fantasy. Born in Buffalo, New York, she lived in Israel for 5 years and then moved to Boston, MA where she resides with her husband, daughter, and 2 cats. She loves to spend time outdoors hiking, gardening, and swimming.

Linda is available for professional consultation, workshops and training, and for community events to offer dreamwork with individuals, small and large groups. She also offers hospital grand rounds, spiritual retreats, adult education, guest lectures, and corporate functions. Nightmare and trauma healing and dreamwork education and active exploration at each event will be tailored to the needs of intended groups, whether clinical, spiritual, team building, or social.

Linda Yael Schiller
psychotherapist for the soul

Endorsements

Read what experts in the field have to say about PTSDreams.

PTSDreams: Transforming Your Nightmares from Trauma Through Healing Dreamwork, by Linda Yael Schiller, does an elegant job of laying out the psychology and physiology of dreams and nightmares, the agony of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and finally their intersection at PTSD nightmares. Then Schiller offers her unique Guided Active Imagination Approach (GAIA) method for working with these dreams, providing rich detail and example so that readers can apply the technique to dreams of their own, close friends, or clients. A fascinating read!

Deirdre Barrett

Deirdre Barrett, author of Pandemic Dreams, 2021, and editor of Trauma and Dreams, past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and of the Society for Psychological Hypnosis, editor of the journal Dreaming, and faculty and dream researcher at Harvard University.

Schiller describes a deeply collaborative process between individuals and their partners in healing—one that attends to critical unfinished business and ultimately, leads to the processing of memories, a significant reduction in suffering, and a chance for profound meaning-making and posttraumatic growth.  Her voice is compassionate and hopeful, conveying a sense of wonder and appreciation for the way the mind works.  Through compelling case descriptions, thoughtful exercises, and a careful integration of clinical wisdom from the worlds of trauma treatment and dreamwork, Schiller skillfully introduces the reader to a wide range of strategies for addressing nightmares, transcending trauma, and finding relief.

Deborah L. Korn, Psy.D.

Faculty, Trauma Research Foundation and EMDR Institute, Psychotherapist, Consultant, Co-author, Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal, 2022.

Post-traumatic stress can result from a number of causes including sexual abuse, childhood violence and war.  In her newest book, PTSDreams: Transforming Your Nightmares From Trauma Through Healing Dreamwork, author Linda Schiller, MSW, LICSW calls on a massive number of dreams and experiences collected from readers and clients to create one of the best new books on the subject of PTSD.

Schiller carries readers into transforming their lives from PTSD to post-traumatic spiritual growth through dreamwork.  Not only does she present a variety of techniques which can be used to work with PTSD dreams, but she also offers exercises which accompany and clarify each chapter.

There is no better book on the market today.  You will want to buy this book and keep it nearby for all the support it offers.

Jean Campbell, MA

President, the International Association of Dreams 2006-2007
Editor of IASD’s DreamTime Magazine 2014-Present
CEO, The iMAGE Project 2001-Presetxs
Author: Dreams Beyond Dreaming, Donning Co Publishers, 1979, Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power, Wordminder Press, 2006
Editor:  Sleep Monsters and Superheroes: Empowering Children Through Creative Dreamplay, Praeger (ABC-CLIO) 2016

PTSDreams is a labor of love in which Linda Yael Schiller shares her incredible breadth of knowledge and skill in working with dreams, nightmares and trauma. Her compassion, kindness and positivity come through every page. It’s an essential resource for psychotherapists to learn various modalities for helping clients. At the same time, it is clearly and beautifully written so that every reader can benefit from Linda’s depth of experience and wisdom to resolve their own nightmares and responses to trauma. I strongly endorse this book as a valuable and timely contribution to the need for widespread support for people experiencing PTSD and nightmares worldwide.

Lauren Schneider, MA, MFT

Psychotherapist, creator of Tarotpy®, author Tarotpy®: It’s All in the Cards, 2021. Author of “Eco-Dreaming: The Whale’s Tale” included in EcoTherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind.

Upcoming Appearances

All listed times are Eastern time.

Recent Interviews & Podcasts

The Power of Dreams in Processing Trauma

November 3, 2023

I am honored to share with you an interview I did with Joanna in Netanya from Blue Lotus Queendom on “DREAMS, HEALING and TRAUMA”. Please share this with anyone who may need both practical and connective strategies for healing nightmares and trauma in difficult times, including war zones, natural disasters, current and historical trauma. Please share with The U-tube channel is here, and it is also available as a podcast at TheHealing Trauma Podcast at dreamingthelight@buzzsprout.com and on all your podcast options.

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