Rachel is the product of years of Dr. Lawrence Stanfield's counseling work with survivors of major trauma. Some of these survivors were the product of generational sexual abuse. Others were survivors of generational ritual abuse often being dedicated to a particular cult at birth, sometimes even before birth. All were adults whose lives was anything but productive, fulfilling, and happy.
Rachel is based upon a true story and a real client. Her journey towards healing required many years and culminated with a glorious and beautiful restoration of body, soul, and spirit. This is a story about her struggle to be set free from a family of cult leadership and abuse. Rachel was one of her child personalities who Dr. Stanfield's heart while working with this 32-year-old woman. She was an 8-year old child alter (part) of this woman who giggled, cried, and made her eyes sparkle whenever she would come out to talk with me while caressing her teddy bear. Rachel's story will provide a rare inside look at the tortuous and hopeless life of those enslaved in the vice of ritual abuse.
Finally, Rachel, the book, is designed to serve as a training manual and teaching-text for ministers, parents, professionals, teachers, counselors, and virtually anyone who shares our compassion to help the tens of thousands of adults who still suffer from a lifetime of enslavement with ritual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorders. Most continue to roam from mental health practitioners to counselors to hospitals while garnished with a myriad of psychiatric labels in their effort to one day find healing and freedom.
What is the purpose of this book? To arouse a public outcry for justice, to launch a massive effort to provide healing and acceptance for these survivors, and to proclaim to all that there is freedom and healing available.