A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

The Art of Transforming the Tragic into Magic

By: Kelly Sullivan Walden

Narrated by: Kelly Sullivan Walden

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Best-selling author, hypnotherapist, and dream expert Kelly Sullivan Walden shares her four-step OGLE process in a humorous self-help memoir. Kelly teaches us how to shift our perspectives on tragedy and helps us look for the magic that can shine within some of our darkness moments.

Recoveries from heartbreaks and misfortune can be debilitating. In A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Kelly Sullivan Walden (aka the Dream Doctor) shares her own history of healing with therapy, shamans, gurus, 12-step programs, and her 25 years of working with clients as a dream therapist and encourages us to alchemize these challenges into a philosophy of strength, forgiveness, and personal transformation.

From a hot-air balloon crash in a wildlife refuge to a near-death experience on her 40th birthday, Walden divulges both her own larger-than-life misadventures and debilitating losses alongside eye-opening stories from her clients and friends. Complete with healthy helpings of wisdom and humor, she flips the script with her four-step OGLE method and transforms the tragic into magic, a method designed to cut years off the recovery process and help turn suffering into optimism. With this book in hand, you’ll find your way back to your inner heaven, even when all hell is breaking loose.

Guided by Kelly’s wisdom and wit, you, too, can transform your life’s unexpected tragedies and mishaps into magical journeys of self-exploration, love, and badassery.

©2022 Kelly Sullivan Walden (P)2023 Beyond Words Publishing

Healing Others and Self Through Embracing Our Deepest Wounds and Creating Beauty and Meaning

The author, Kelly, is a rare, rare soul. She reveals in this book a most authentic and vulnerable self. I did not expect the depth of where she invited us to walk with her: into the deepest anguish of her soul -- and to help us experience, with loving grace, our own anguish within our own souls! And, she doesn't leave us there! She shares how she does her best to create meaning and beauty and healing in the awfulness, as well, as in the joyfulness, of what we call life.

Early in her book she references a most esteemed spiritual and philosophical mentor, Viktor Frankl, the Jewish psychiatrist and author, who somehow survived the Holocaust, lost his family, yet created a most joyful and healing psychotherapeutic approach to create, despite awfulness, hope, beauty and meaning.

The author, Kelly, creates her own lovely version of a life with meaning and joy by embracing, not denying, deep anguish and loss. She loves the synchronicities of life that, in her view, disrupt the awfulness and leads her to assertively move oneself toward healing. She has coaching techniques that she uses to inspire herself and others to reform, renew, and reinvent one's life into love, healing and beauty.

Kelly models being able to gracefully accept herself as well as gracefully accepting others, without judgment. I experience that from her personally, for she and I have very different understanding of the cosmologies of our universe. It doesn't matter. She shows grace and models what it means to be a loving, vulnerable and healing soul. I am grateful for her and for this healing book. -- Dr Royce Fitts