Dreaming Kevin: The Path To Healing is an inspiring story of the healing power of dreams and after-death communication in reconciling the death of a child. Join author Carla Blowey in her quest to interpret an ominous dream that predicted the death of her five-year-old son, Kevin, just hours before he died in a bicycle accident. It is this nightmare that heralds the many numinous dreams and synchronistic events that offer her forgiveness, healing, spiritual growth and new life. Weaving excerpts from her personal dream journal throughout this intimate narrative,Carla shares her darkest moments as a bereaved mother and her extraordinary encounters with Kevin as he reveals the mystery of his transition to the afterlife. Dreaming Kevin is an excellent resource that will affirm bereaved parents in their grief journey and validate their dreams and spiritual encounters with their children.
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"...a journey from sudden grief to a clearer understanding that we all live in the Heart Light of God." -- Arlyn MacDonald, author,Parenting for Heart, Mind and Spirit, Infinity Publishing.com May 2002
"...a touching story of one mother's continuing love and gentle communication with a very special child..." -- Joy Johnson, Centering Corporation, May 2002
"...with spiritual eloquence and yet sincere humbleness, Carla has touched not only our hearts but reached our soul..." -- Dea Martin, Lecturer, Profiler, May 2002
A must-read for bereaved mothers and all women who have loved a child! A soul-filled story for us all! -- Judith Guggenheim,co-author Hello From Heaven!Bantam 1995
"...a touching story of one mother's continuing love and gentle communication with a very special child..." -- Joy Johnson, Centering Corporation, May 2002
"...with spiritual eloquence and yet sincere humbleness, Carla has touched not only our hearts but reached our soul..." -- Dea Martin, Lecturer, Profiler, May 2002
A must-read for bereaved mothers and all women who have loved a child! A soul-filled story for us all! -- Judith Guggenheim,co-author Hello From Heaven!Bantam 1995
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Carla Blowey has gained insight, guidance and wisdom from her dreams for almost twenty years. At age 33, she entered the most challenging and painful time of her life when the death of her five-year-old son, Kevin, and the nightmare that predicted it, forced her to re-examine her perceptions about death, grief and the afterlife. Dreaming Kevin became a valuable tool for healing those misperceptions and reclaiming her life. Using her dream journal with much discernment and prayer, she uncovered the archetypes, personal symbols and metaphors that led to forgiveness and healing.
Carla recognized the healling power of sharing not just our grief, but our life stories when she and her husband spoke at a Confirmation Retreat for the teens from their Catholic church. For the first time, together, they shared the risks they took in walking their faith and living again. Inspired by a dream she had about the retreat, Carla felt a calling to provide her daughter and other grieving children a safe place to share their grief stories too.
Carla began her bereavement work as the coordinator of the Montrose chapter of Rainbows, a national children's grief support program, as well as co-founder and co-director of Camp Good Grief!, a children's summer camp sponsored by Hospice of the Uncompahgre Valley and Hospice of the Grand Valley. She has facilited workshops and support groups for grief facilitators, bereaved parents and children using her training with Rainbows and Attitudinal Healing.
In 1996, Carla retired from hairdressing to be present for her growing family. In the midst of changing diapers and teaching her oldest daughter to drive, she answered the call to write Dreaming Kevin. By 1999, a twenty year working relationship was revived when friend, Judy Vanderwist, invited Carla to join her in developing and designing Carb Cards, a carbohydrate counting flash card game for children with diabetes. Together, they manage and market Carb Cards.com, an online mail order company.
Carla lives in Colorado with her husband of twenty-three years, their three children and their golden retriever.
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This is the most honest description of the pain of a mother who has lost her son. I admired the author's courage to report on all the bumps and setbacks on her path back to God. Why was this journey so hard? I believe that every honest book says more than the words tell. In "Dreaming Kevin," the involuntary message points to the gap between words about God and our readiness to accept His will. The book made me recognize that I carry the same gap and that our entire civilization suffers from this gap as well. With every passing year, our Christmas trees become shinier, words about God louder, but I am not so sure that our acceptance of God's will is growing as well! Kevin died to force his mother, the author Carla Blowey, to examine the obstacles in her soul that fenced her from God. She did, and she found them through her dream work. Before I left the former Soviet Union 15 years ago, there was a rumor that in Moscow the demonstrations of mad mothers who had lost their sons in Afghan war were roaming through the city, surfacing here and there and making people uncomfortable. People felt guilt but could do nothing about it. Or so they believed. Kevin who died at age 5 came to teach us a lesson that all we really could do was open up to God. Not in words but in our frozen, Spartan, desolated hearts that threaten to become peaces of marble, if we don't change!
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This book is a MUST READ for Bereaved parents,
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Carla does an extraordinary job writing her feelings of grief and pain on the loss of a precious son in an unfortunate bicycle-truck accident. She specifically describes her dreams she experienced not only the night before the accident but also of many more afterwards . In addition to the dreams Carla experienced, she also discovered unique drawings that was made by Kevin just days before the accident . She also describes many ADC experiences proving that there is indeed, life after death. This book is a must read for bereaved parents, and not to be missed.
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This Author is a very special, gifted writer who so lovingly conveys how our children parted before us assure us of their continued love and devotion to us. The creativity of using dreams to tell us they are okay is healing and comforting.
This book reinforces the wonder and promise of eternal life from our Creator. The spirit and our love is forever!
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