Walk with Me: A Journey through the Landscape of Trauma

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At the height of her career as a federal mob prosecutor, Ellen Corcella's soul collapsed under the weight of her childhood trauma. Corcella changes course until she finds herself as a trauma chaplain racing to meet patients on the worst days of their lives. She ministers to individuals suffering from cancer, life threatening injuries after a car wreck, or dying from gunshot wounds. Struggling to offer hope for her patients and families, she realizes the question is not how we move beyond our trauma, but how we learn to live with it. Corcella mines her life and spirit for the fortitude needed to look trauma in the eye and accept its presence in her body. Corcella improves her ministry by embracing the practice of trauma-informed spiritual care. Whether holding a sobbing parent, baptizing a prisoner dying of a brain tumor, and singing hymns with a blind and suicidal patient, Corcella shows readers that we can become sources of hope and healing for ourselves and others when we embrace our own woundedness.

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An ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Corcella spent ten years as a hospital chaplain caring for critically ill, injured, and dying patients and their families. After graduating from Christian Theological Seminary, she received additional training in trauma informed clinical care, mindfulness and medication practices from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, and Palliative Spiritual Care from California State University Shiley Haynes Institute. Prior to entering the ministry, Corcella was a New York City prosecutor who lead complex cases involving mobsters, drug traffickers and violent criminals. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and George Washington University. She founded the network "Faith & Resilience" to provide resources and reflections about faith, spirituality, trauma and loss; and currently serves as an Elder and leads the Green Chalice and Social Justice Ministries at Zionsville Christian Church. She lives at home with her dog, Hope, and her cat, Harriett. Corcella is available as a workshop leader, speaker, and preacher and her additional writings may be found at www.ellencorcella.com.