Gabriel Orion Marie

Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations

About Gabriel Orion Marie

My name is Gabriel Orion Marie, (Veronica C. Wanchena) and I am an author and artist. I have written and spoken to individuals and to groups in order share my personal story of being a woman who survived severe sexual abuse and incest during childhood. My desire is to share with others how I embarked upon an epic healing journey that saved my life and restored my sanity. This journey included an unexpected method of communicating and healing from the inexpressible by drawing and painting with an enlightened witness as my guide.

During the process of therapy I created over 325 paintings and drawings to assist me in getting the pain out and to communicate to my therapist what happened, how it hurt me and how deeply grieved I was.

It is my hope that my books and my artwork will bring hope, courage and insight to others who have suffered from the violence of others, and also that they will be a source of deeper understanding for those who are in the helping professions. In my art and my writing I have opened the doors of my most personal experience of wounding and also the door into the sacred arena of therapy where my healing emerged.

Several prints of my work are part of a larger traveling exhibit with the work of a few other artists in The Netherlands entitled "Strength from Brokenness". I also have donated a 7- piece exhibit entitled My Fire: The Alchemy of Abuse to The Awakenings Foundation Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. It is on permanent display there.

If you are interested in my paintings or prints of my work, or have other questions, you are welcome to contact me and I will respond in a timely manner.

With love and respect,

Gabriel Orion Marie

gabriel@gabrielorionmarie.com

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.

Learn more at Author Central

1 11 1

$3.99

Kindle Edition
$4.99

Kindle Edition
$4.99

Kindle Edition
$4.99

Kindle Edition
$3.99

Kindle Edition
$3.99

Kindle Edition
$3.99

Kindle Edition

Author Updates

Titles By Gabriel Orion Marie

All Formats Kindle Edition Paperback

El arte como alquimia: Una mirada al interior del proceso de transformación (Spanish Edition) Dec 10, 2015

by Gabriel Orion Marie

( 2 )

$3.99

En El arte como alquimia, Gabriel Orion Marie (Veronica C. Wanchena) escribió una brillante síntesis cuya bella y profunda narrativa guía al lector a través de una versión condensada de su viaje de sanación con su terapeuta, el Dr. A. En este breve y potente libro, articula con gran penetración cómo la dañaron sus heridas y los aspectos específicos de la relación terapéutica que más necesitó para su plena recuperación. Sus obras de arte en este libro se expresan con tanta elocuencia, simplicidad y franqueza como sus palabras.

Other Formats: Paperback

This White House (Recovery from Incest Through Painting My Story Book 1) Jun 25, 2015

by Gabriel Orion Marie, Veronica Wanchena

( 25 )

$4.99

This White House is the first in an utterly unique series of three books from Gabriel Orion Marie that tell the story of her amazing recovery from extreme and horrific physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse. Her drawings and paintings are powerful and deeply moving. Her words expound magnificently on the images. They offer courage to other survivors of abuse/violence and are already being used by some therapists and students of psychology because they provide a vivid and unique inside view into the heart of a broken and healed woman.

The themes in presented in This White House introduce you to Gabriel’s life and the early years of abuse, which include being sold by her father as a child prostitute and being used for child pornography. She takes you into her experience of becoming many selves and the resulting anguish of insanity. You will quickly come to love this child/woman and will want to follow her through to her recovery after you have been privy to what this book reveals.

Note from the Author:
There are many themes in the areas of wounding and healing from sexual abuse, incest, and torture, and for my books, I have chosen themes that were most prominent in my journey. I created over 325 paintings and drawings during several years of my therapy and have arranged selections of them by themes for chapters. I tried to choose paintings in each topic that I felt would communicate best what I am trying to share.

These themes and paintings are divided into three books, the Recovery From Incest Through Painting My Story series:

This White House (Book One) - Gathering The Wood
• Chapter 1 A Legacy of Shame: A Brief Autobiography
• Chapter 2 First Revelations: Beginning Therapy
• Chapter 3 Child Pornography/Child Prostitution
• Chapter 4 Multiplicity
• Chapter 5 Inner Deaths: Borderline Series
• Chapter 6 Obesity and Measurement
• Chapter 7 Spirituality and Guilt

Going Sane (Book Two) - Tending The Fire
• Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Relationship
• Chapter 2 Establishing My Insanity
• Chapter 3 Tortured: Segreto Oscuro (Dark Secret)
• Chapter 4 The Penis Question
• Chapter 5 The Fiercest Taboo
• Chapter 6 Sensations
• Chapter 7 Some of My Selves

A Spectacular Dawn (Book Three) - Witnessing the Gold
• Chapter 1 Choosing Consciousness
• Chapter 2 Grieving
• Chapter 3 Letting Go
• Chapter 4 Forgiveness
• Chapter 5 A New Beginning
• Chapter 6 The Dawn and I
• Chapter 7 Only Now

Other Formats: Paperback

A Spectacular Dawn (Recovery from Incest Through Painting My Story Book 3) Jun 25, 2015

by Gabriel Orion Marie, Veronica Wanchena

( 15 )

$4.99

A Spectacular Dawn is the final in this series and here Gabriel Orion Marie takes you into the heart of her healing, her conscious reclaiming of her sanity, her soul, her life and her joy. In this volume she shares extensively from her correspondence with Dr. A. and we are allowed to witness the depth of respectful, professional love that was a key ingredient in the thoroughness of her healing.

Note from the Author:

This book, A Spectacular Dawn, is the third in a series of books that I have written to share with you my personal story of intense suffering during childhood and how I embarked upon an epic healing journey. This journey included an unexpected method of communicating and healing from the inexpressible by drawing and painting with an enlightened witness as my guide.

There are many themes in the areas of wounding and healing from sexual abuse, incest, and torture, and for my books, I have chosen themes that were most prominent in my journey. I created over 325 paintings and drawings during several years of my therapy and have arranged selections of them by themes for chapters. I tried to choose paintings in each topic that I felt would communicate best what I am trying to share.

It is with great joy that I now share with you this part of the healing journey where the emergence and integration of Light—A Spectacular Dawn—has taken place. I have come to believe that this Dawn resides in each of us, no matter how broken we are, and that it quietly awaits our pursuit and discovery so it may lavish upon us its illuminating and liberating power.

These themes and paintings are divided into three books, the Recovery From Incest Through Painting My Story series:

This White House (Book One) - Gathering The Wood
• Chapter 1 A Legacy of Shame: A Brief Autobiography
• Chapter 2 First Revelations: Beginning Therapy
• Chapter 3 Child Pornography/Child Prostitution
• Chapter 4 Multiplicity
• Chapter 5 Inner Deaths: Borderline Series
• Chapter 6 Obesity and Measurement
• Chapter 7 Spirituality and Guilt

Going Sane (Book Two) - Tending The Fire
• Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Relationship
• Chapter 2 Establishing My Insanity
• Chapter 3 Tortured: Segreto Oscuro (Dark Secret)
• Chapter 4 The Penis Question
• Chapter 5 The Fiercest Taboo
• Chapter 6 Sensations
• Chapter 7 Some of My Selves

A Spectacular Dawn (Book Three) - Witnessing the Gold
• Chapter 1 Choosing Consciousness
• Chapter 2 Grieving
• Chapter 3 Letting Go
• Chapter 4 Forgiveness
• Chapter 5 A New Beginning
• Chapter 6 The Dawn and I
• Chapter 7 Only Now

Other Formats: Paperback

Going Sane (Recovery from Incest Through Painting My Story Book 2) Jun 25, 2015

by Gabriel Orion Marie, Veronica Wanchena

( 17 )

$4.99

Going Sane takes the reader deeper into the heinous abuses and resulting insanity that crippled and debilitated Gabriel profoundly. The experience of physical, emotional, and sexual tortures drove her into a level depth of insanity and continual emotional trauma that permeated her daily life and required complicated and constantly shifting strategies for survival. Her tenacious courage is profoundly inspiring.

Note from the Author:
In this second book of my series about my process of healing from incest through a therapeutic process that included painting my story, I am sharing with the readers some of the most heinous abuses and the resulting insanity that crippled and debilitated me profoundly. The experience of physical, emotional and sexual tortures drove me into a level of insanity and loss of perception of reality that permeated my daily life and required complicated and constantly shifting strategies for survival.

It was precisely because the intricate, graphic, heinous details of the abuse and the resulting insanities continued to imprison and torment me that I needed to purge all these details out. By painting and writing the details and bringing them into my therapeutic arena, I was finally healed of them, one by one. The shame I carried about needing to reveal the truth, the disturbing details, became the place where I had to exercise the most courage and in this alchemy of my soul and person, Shame has be changed into Courage. It is with this Courage that I offer you these volumes and I hope and pray that it may help you to exercise whatever Courage you need in your life to overcome what oppresses you.

These themes and paintings are divided into three books, the Recovery From Incest Through Painting My Story series:

This White House (Book One) - Gathering The Wood
• Chapter 1 A Legacy of Shame: A Brief Autobiography
• Chapter 2 First Revelations: Beginning Therapy
• Chapter 3 Child Pornography/Child Prostitution
• Chapter 4 Multiplicity
• Chapter 5 Inner Deaths: Borderline Series
• Chapter 6 Obesity and Measurement
• Chapter 7 Spirituality and Guilt

Going Sane (Book Two) - Tending The Fire
• Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Relationship
• Chapter 2 Establishing My Insanity
• Chapter 3 Tortured: Segreto Oscuro (Dark Secret)
• Chapter 4 The Penis Question
• Chapter 5 The Fiercest Taboo
• Chapter 6 Sensations
• Chapter 7 Some of My Selves

A Spectacular Dawn (Book Three) - Witnessing the Gold
• Chapter 1 Choosing Consciousness
• Chapter 2 Grieving
• Chapter 3 Letting Go
• Chapter 4 Forgiveness
• Chapter 5 A New Beginning
• Chapter 6 The Dawn and I
• Chapter 7 Only Now

Other Formats: Paperback

Art as Alchemy: An Inside View of the Transformational Process Jun 4, 2015

by Gabriel Orion Marie

( 4 )

$3.99

In Art as Alchemy, Gabriel Orion Marie (Veronica C. Wanchena), has written a brilliant synthesis that beautifully and profoundly takes the reader on a condensed version of her healing journey with her therapist, Dr. A.

In this potent little book, she articulates with great insight how her wounding damaged her, and the specific aspects of the therapeutic relationship that were most necessary for her full recovery. Her artwork in this book speaks as eloquently, simply and openly as her words.

Other Formats: Paperback

Gender Trauma and The Healing of Tommy-Girl Apr 21, 2016

by Gabriel Orion Marie

( 8 )

$3.99

Gender Trauma is a phrase that came to me as I have thought about how to communicate my personal experience of deep pain and confusion that resulted from being sexually and emotionally tortured and brainwashed regarding my own body and gender. This book is about my healing from that specific trauma and the many attending issues around my sense of self that resulted from those traumas.

Since I published my trilogy several years ago, I have come even further along the road of healing, and I have moved into a deeper, more reflective perspective on the whole gender issue within me. The lens I am looking through now is not so much of an explicit, biographical, recounting of the abuse that I experienced. Rather, it is a progressive, retrospective understanding of how devastating, disabling, and painful Gender Trauma was for me, and how the gaping wounds that came from it affected every area of my life. Now, I also have an internal overview of how these wounds gradually healed through the inner work that I have done.

Other Formats: Paperback

Dear Mom: Forgiveness Unleashed Jun 16, 2015

by Gabriel Orion Marie

( 2 )

$3.99

Courage, courage and even more courage! That is the overarching quality of character this journey required to free her from the debilitating effects of abuse. In Dear Mom, Gabriel Orion Marie (Veronica C. Wanchena) invites the reader to witness the inner challenges, struggles and discoveries in this tremendous process of incarnating forgiveness of her mother. Heaping kindness, on one by whom she was deeply hurt, brought profound liberation and an unthinkable new bond of love.

Other Formats: Paperback

More Information

Are you an author? Visit Author Central to change your photo, edit your biography, and more

Gabriel Orion Marie

Similar authors to follow

About Gabriel Orion Marie

Are you an author?

Author Updates

Titles By Gabriel Orion Marie

More Information