It's hard to put into words how powerful one person's journey can be, but Anna's is just that. Reading The Path to Healing is a Spiral takes you on the highs and lows of processing and acknowledging trauma and of the many ways available to help do this - whether they're good, bad or just insanely wierd!

I enjoyed this more than I imagined I would! It was engaging and felt like I was sitting alongside the author and having a relaxed, brutally honest chat with a friend about what their healing journey has consisted of. It was funny (which I wasn’t expecting!), and the personality of the author shone through their words and their story.

I immediately connected with the author and reading the book didn’t feel like a chore, but almost joyful (if you can call reading a book about healing from trauma joyful, but hopefully you catch my drift).

I appreciated the honesty, even about the bad parts, the scary parts, the definitely not glamorous parts (think snot dripping down your chin because you can’t stop crying type of thing). It was inspiring; but not in the typical sense. It was so because it inspired me to take a good hard look at myself and my trauma, to dip my toe into confronting the demons that have haunted me my entire life. And I think that’s the most valuable, insightful and life-changing thing I took from this book. I know it sounds like I’m preaching the gospel, but I mean it. I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t.

This isn’t a book of healing by traditional means. The author discusses how alternative therapies (such as reiki) have helped her along on her healing journey. It wasn’t preachy. It wasn’t thrown into your face every 5 seconds or pushed onto you, making you feel pressure to try it. Like the author stated herself, ‘this book is the equivalent of a random supermarket chat about reiki or conversation with someone at work about their experience with BodyTalk’. The author told her story, offering what the various methods she’d tried could help us as readers too.

I recommend this book if you’re also confronting your own trauma. If you need a little hope or something new to try. You won’t be disappointed. Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher, for a chance to read and review this book.

Took me a long time to read this book. Sorry to say i did not enjoy it. Nothing against the authour, its just not my thing.

I was super excited to read this book! My favorite part was how each chapter described a part of the author's healing journey in detail and then there was an interview with a practitioner from that modality. This provided a Q & A style to the memoir which was helpful - I had only heard of and experienced a couple of the healings so more detail on the others was a nice touch.

I've already suggested that my Reiki friends read this book! I believe if you're a healer or interested in reading about a woman's spiritual path to trauma healing you will like this book so much. I was able to relate to several parts and the way she described Endo and so much of advocating for yourself with doctors. This section was so well done.

Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to experience this author's interesting life story with healing from various traumas.

I was a little disappointed in this, as I was expected more of a self-help guide to mental welfare, rather than a personal journey which at times seemed more like an advertisement for various therapies. I can't say that I want to rush out and try any of them!

I really liked the sound of this book, and it initially sounded right up my street.
Unfortunately, I really didn't enjoy this.
It became quite repetitive and formulaic. I wasn't really getting anything new from it - nothing I wasn't already aware of. It felt very similar to Fearne Cotton's most recent book 'Bigger Than Us' but it didn't have the same sparky writing style.
Disappointing!

Ways to wholeness.

From losing her mother to cancer through to suffering severe endometriosis Anna shares her life openly, honestly and even with humour.

For anyone interested in complimentary therapies her experiences of a wide range of approaches including, Bodytalk, breath work, symbolism, gratitude and Reiki provide useful insights. These could help readers to consider therapies they might want to try and to weed out others that might not appeal.

Anna emphasises the key thing to know is that we’re all deserving of healing, whatever form our individual spiral path to wholeness takes.

I was given this book from the author via netgalley only for the pleasure of reading and leaving an honest review should I choose to.

As a neonatal intensive care nurse, this book has come at the right time and helped so much. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

3.5/5.

On the whole, a really good book which I really enjoyed reading. It was funny, honest and insightful Would recommend.

Such a good helping self-care book I really enjoyed it and think I will be definitely trying some of the strategies too help me I'm my everyday life

This book is about acknowledging our trauma, looking at what it actually is, and feeling our feelings. Interviews with practitioners and experts delve deeper into what alternative therapies offer. I will definitely recommend reading this one! It was well worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

The Path to Healing is a Spiral follows Anna McKerrow’s journey to emotional healing. This book contains heavy subject matter but it's also balanced with light hearted moments.

I always appreciate reading about other people’s journey and experiences with mental health. McKerrow’s takeaway from her experience is that the emotional healing doesn’t stop. Healing takes time and it becomes a practice that we adopt. There are many wonderful takes in this book that I loved, and I believe her story will help many others on their journey. Thank you to NetGalley and Watkins Publishing for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Was surprised by the witchy vibes. Felt like the whole book was an advertisement for another style of life.

The Path to Healing is a Spiral is a biographical look at selected healing techniques. It is quite unfiltered and is a bit like a Vulcan mind dump. I liked bits of it but there were lots of detailed problems that were personal to the author that didn't really interest me at all. I did find myself skimming over quite a few parts. It is more of a biography (all about the author) rather than the techniques so it was quite hard to get a feel for how the methods might be relevant or useable to yourself. The good thing was the question and answer bit in each chapter e.g. What is Reiki ? Which was answered with a really good simple description. I found myself reading these bits first so I knew what the chapter was about. Overall some good information.