About my memoir, WALK ON WATER. What is it about? Here is my story....
At eighteen, I was pregnant and alone. Beaten and mugged by
a fellow high school student on a cold night, I found myself begging my
estranged parents for help. My body and spirit are in crisis as I have a near
death experience during the premature delivery of my son, giving me the choice to live or die.
Twenty-six years later, I was a successful therapist and
considered a warrior healer, but my father’s cancer diagnosis ripped open scar
tissue from old wounds of childhood isolation, abuse, teenage pregnancy and a
brutal early marriage. I return to
my childhood home, facing my parents and the painful circumstances that
required me to leave my sons in their care.
Soon after my father’s death, my own health scare serves as
a wake-up call and a realization that my long-term relationship is failing and
never was what I thought it to be. Finding
my life in ruins, I start a deeply personal journey to find my way in the
darkness, realizing I am no longer a warrior but a wounded healer.
Through deep acceptance and forgiveness for myself, I
realize that for almost fifty years I have been surviving but not thriving. I
finally find the courage to ask the universe how to thrive.
WALK ON WATER will appeal to
readers who desire a writer’s honesty and vulnerability with a message of hope
that no matter how dark the despair, love lights the way.
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