Dreaming Kevin: The Path to Healing: 2014 Expanded Edition

Dreaming Kevin: The Path to Healing, 2014 Expanded Edition, is the compelling story of a bereaved mother in search of her son in the dream time. Carla Blowey shares her quest to interpret an ominous dream predicting the death of her five-year-old son, Kevin, just hours before he died in a bicycle accident. This living nightmare heralds the many numinous dreams and synchronistic events offering her forgiveness, healing, spiritual growth, and new life. Weaving excerpts from her personal dream journal throughout this intimate narrative, Carla shares her most desperate moments in grief, and her extraordinary encounters with Kevin in the dream time.

In this 2014 expanded edition, Carla includes an Afterword proposing the idea that our dreams reveal the hidden issues that block the path to healing during a range of life transitions from birth to death. Carla challenges dreamers and grievers to ask, "What does it really mean to be healed?" "How is our perception of grief and loss inhibiting healing in our lives?" "Why does the pursuit of healing trigger such volatile reactions of resistance?"

Quite unexpectedly, while Carla was writing the Afterword on healing, a subsequent section evolved. "Notes from the Children" features interviews with the children of Dreaming Kevin. Carla believed that the children who experienced Kevin's death first hand, and those who experienced it through their parents or from a distance, shared a bond not only with Kevin but also with one another. She wondered, "How deep is their trauma?" "What is their perspective of this life-changing event now that they are young adults and parents?" For the first time, the children of Dreaming Kevin share their experiences and perception of Kevin's death and their grief, with each other and with Amber. The result is an astounding unedited, spontaneous, and universal dialogue on their silent and unseen grief. In a surprising ending, Dreaming Kevin comes full circle with an amazing gift from Kevin to Amber, his sister...23 years later.