About the Book

Discover how Dr. Markham’s memoir weaves clinical experience and spiritual wisdom into a guide for holistic healing.

From an African Beginning, a Journey to Clarity, is the story of Vicky Markham’s journey from her American family’s legacy in Africa, to being the only white student in an African high school in an apartheid country, through college in the US, to finding both psychological and spiritual healing from Complex PTSD as an adult.

She draws readers into the possibility of healing their own emotional issues, as she shares her search for self understanding and finally healing her PTSD.

Her experiences in Africa move her to become a psychologist to help all people get past their differences.

She had three quests in adult life: a life partner, meaningful work, and spiritual clarity.

She discovers the unconscious emotional themes from her childhood as she moves through her adult life.

She details the key elements to her healing from complex PTSD, both psychological and spiritual.

The message of the story is that it is normal to have emotional issues, and it is normal and necessary to make mistakes in life as one learns, in order to correct course. Healing these emotional issues is possible. She shares her own psychological framework on healing using her own life as an example.

Her search for healing leads her to becoming a meditation practitioner. She shares her spiritual perspective, which included both meditation and mysticism, as part of that healing, without implying that it is the only way.

She uses her story to give one example of a difficult, vulnerable, and quietly victorious journey towards healing and spiritual understanding.