Fans of Lori Gottlieb's, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, and horse lovers alike will appreciate this therapist's intimate journey in "the other chair" as she strives to untangle the trauma from her equestrian childhood that now threatens her marriage.
Raw and riveting, Girl, Groomed is seasoned psychotherapist Carol Odell's evolving story of deepening her understanding of how the crisis she blindly imposes on her marriage is rooted in her own history of sexual abuse and violence at the hands of a predatory horse trainer who, for far too much of her young life, held all the reins. Chapters toggle back and forth between scenes of her childhood growing up jumping horses on the show circuit in Virginia and the therapy sessions she later undergoes as an adult sitting in "the other chair."
Using her own journey, Carol demonstrates in this insightful memoir how unintegrated trauma limits us and our connection with others?and how the work of uncovering and reintegrating "what we do with what happens to us" can become the very source of our liberation.
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Carol Odell, LICSW, grew up riding horses on the show jumping circuit in Virginia. She has been a practicing psychotherapist facilitating groups and working with couples and individuals since 1984. Married for thirty-eight years and the mother of a grown son, her other passions include: squash, pickleball, partner dancing, mosaics, writing, hiking, traveling, and being in community with friends and family. She and her husband currently split their time between Seattle and Cle Elum, Washington.
