There is a sacred meeting place, one rarely spoken of in clinical training and too often overlooked in spiritual circles. It’s where emotional healing isn’t just a process of the mind and body, but a remembering of the soul. Where trauma recovery becomes more than symptom relief — it becomes a return to presence, to wholeness.
As a clinical psychologist for over four decades, I’ve walked beside people through unbearable pain, and I’ve also witnessed the light that breaks through when we stop trying to fix, and begin simply to see. Not just the problem… but the person. Their presence, their unshaken core beneath the wounds.
In my new memoir, Being the Light, I share my own journey through this convergence; not as a therapist, but as a human being learning to sit with silence, to befriend pain, and to meet the divine in the ordinary.
I didn’t set out to write a book about trauma. I set out to write about meditation. About stillness. About the grace that comes when we stop running and finally sit with ourselves, with what hurts, with what heals.
But as I wrote, I discovered that our stories become the backdrop of what evolves thereafter. And so this became a book that lives in both worlds — the clinical and the contemplative. The scientific and the sacred. The world of psychological trauma… and the world of awakening.
Why This Book — and Why Now
We are living in a time where many are waking up; not in celebration, but in raw awareness. Waking up to the weight they’ve been carrying. To the relationships that hollowed them out. To the silence between their heart and their healing.
For those people, Being the Light is a companion — not a prescription. It’s not just a how-to, nor is it a solution. It is a presence. A space to recognize yourself in another’s stillness.
This book is for the ones who’ve sat in therapy but never quite felt met.
It’s for the ones who’ve tried meditation and thought they were doing it “wrong.”
It’s for those who’ve endured harm and sense that healing is more than coping.
It’s for people seeking something real, something true and profound.
In a culture obsessed with overcoming, this is a story about arriving. About settling into the “beingness” that was always within reach. And letting that be enough.
If you’ve touched something wordless in your stillest moments…
If you’ve lived through pain and are ready to soften…
If you long to hear your own soul more clearly —
Come sit with me.
Let’s remember the light that never left you.
Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D. helps people reconnect with their inner truth and reclaim a life of meaning and peace.
(c)Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D. 2025 — Domestic Abuse Prevention and Intervention
