{"id":42713,"date":"2025-12-05T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42713"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:21:58","slug":"soul-can-you-how-expanded-consciousness-cultivates-spiritual-awakening-trauma-healing-and-creative-breakthrough-by-lisa-gilbert-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42713","title":{"rendered":"Soul Can You: How Expanded Consciousness Cultivates Spiritual Awakening, Trauma Healing, and Creative Breakthrough by Lisa Gilbert MD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A bold, soul-deep exploration of healing, consciousness, and inner truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilbert, a board-certified psychiatrist with decades of clinical experience, takes a psychospiritual look at the inner world of trauma, healing, and consciousness expansion in her debut book. Though trained in the rigors of Western psychiatry, she ventures into territory that traditional clinical frameworks rarely attempt to map, arguing\u2014through lived experience rather than abstraction\u2014that the psyche\u2019s deepest wounds often contain their own medicine. She opens with the story of a spectral visitation in meditation, in which a long-lost neighbor child tells her, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t your fault,\u201d a moment that instantly signals the book\u2019s blend of psychological inquiry and mystical encounter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there, she retraces years of Holotropic Breathwork sessions that operate much like case studies of consciousness, detailing visions in which shame becomes embodied, trauma speaks in symbolic language, and identity dissolves into what she calls \u201cDivine Light.\u201d Like a clinician documenting an unfamiliar phenomenon with precision and awe, Gilbert recounts these experiences not for sensational effect but to show how nonordinary states can reveal patterns that have shaped a lifetime. Readers watch as she interrogates buried memories, confronts childhood fragmentation, and revisits scenes of emotional rupture\u2014always returning to the central question of what healing truly demands. When she describes the energetic residue of trauma as \u201ctrauma kinetics,\u201d or the counterforce of awakening as \u201ctranscendent kinetics,\u201d she does so not as rigid theory but as a framework that helps make sense of what the psyche is already expressing. Her encounters with the departed often arrive with a startling intimacy\u2014like the moment Harold, speaking from within a ritual drum, reassures her, \u201cThey will never take my power,\u201d collapsing the boundary between the human and the mythic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilbert\u2019s candor is one of the book\u2019s greatest strengths. She refuses to sanitize the confusion, devastation, or awe that accompany deep inner work. Introspection and analysis blend smoothly throughout, keeping visionary experiences rooted in emotional truth. A guide\u2019s calm assurance\u2014\u201cYou will see me again, and I will teach you\u201d\u2014avoids melodrama and strengthens the book\u2019s conversation between the seen and unseen parts of the self. Despite the depth of her subjects, her writing remains clear and inviting. Thoughtful, multilayered, and unflinchingly sincere, the book offers a lived blueprint for those wanting to understand the deeper patterns shaping their inner lives. Readers who loved <em>When the Body Says No<\/em> by Gabor Mat\u00e9 and <em>Journey of Souls <\/em>by Michael Newton will want to take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soul-Can-You-Consciousness-Breakthroughs\/dp\/1950043630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Archangel Ink<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date August 5, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 978-1950043637<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $18.99 (USD) Paperback, $8.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bold, soul-deep exploration of healing, consciousness, and inner truth. 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