S. Kelley Harrell, CHt, is an author, columnist, and neoshaman living in North Carolina. Her book, Gift of the Dreamtime: Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma, chronicles her pivotal steps into her role as a shaman. She writes the syndicated column “Intentional Insights,” and has written for SageWoman, If . . . Journal, and the Beltane Papers, and is published in several anthologies. She is an Ascension Reiki and Usui Reiki Ryoho Master and Teacher walking the path of the modern Druid. As the co-president of the Saferoom Project, a non-profit support network for sexual assault survivors and their partners, family, and friends, Kelley helped to found the group in 1998. She makes her home with a wonderful lover and their two energetic children. A passionate animist, her shamanic practice is Soul Intent Arts, and she is vigorously involved with the world in and around her.