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Ida Tody holds a diploma in Creative Writing from Stratford Career Institute, Saint Albans, Vermont, as well as a diploma in Psychology/Social Work.
Ida Tody holds a diploma in Creative Writing from Stratford Career Institute, Saint Albans, Vermont, as well as a diploma in Psychology/Social Work.
What does it take to get over an abusive childhood? Can those who have been victimized ever be fully whole again? Yes, says Rev. Hilda Thomasine Wren in her stirring and inspirational memoir, A Plain Brown Wren. Wren was born into a severely dysfunctional family. Beaten and sexually abused as a child, and denied the love and acceptance she so desperately needed. Wren ran away as a teenager. She soon was thrust into a life of prostitution, and began a series of damaging relationships with unavailable, brutal or uncaring men. Yet, at age 25, she began to realize that there was a higher power who might help her. With great courage and strong faith, Wren began to rebuild her life, becoming so successful that she started a foundation, Spiritual Connections, Inc. to help other women and children recover from the terrible tragedy of sexual abuse. This is a heartfelt, heart wrenching, and deeply inspirational book for anyone who has ever suffered abuse or known someone who has. Wren’s memoir proves that it is never too late to succeed and that, where there is faith, there can always be hope.
This book is for any person who may have struggled with things from their past that they may have not healed from. It’s to let the reader know that no mess is too messed up for God and that He is capable of turning that mess into a message.
Jacqueline Gates' life changed forever one wintry morning in 1987. Her ten-year-old daughter, Joelle Rosebush, had been hit by a car as she crossed the street to come home with her two siblings, Heather and Keith. After a few days, the hospital couldn't do anything else for Joelle, and a helicopter transferred her to a new hospital where she spent six months on a respirator in a pediatric intensive care unit. In this heartfelt account, the author shares the emotions she and her family navigated as Joelle spent eighteen months in a vegetative state and the wrenching decision of taking her off life support after consulting with a medical bioethics committee, a social worker, family priest, and medical staff.
Dealing with children who are being raised by people other than their biological parents. Children that have experienced the loss of a parent due to homicide, suicide or manslaughter and also children being raised in foster care. What they go through and react to these traumas in losing a parent. How do you explain what has happened to their parent? Perhaps you are dealing with a child that has been placed in your home and they are coming from a traumatic background. We will be discussing how each age group may react to these situations and what you can do to help them with their loss or their situation of being rejected, unwanted and left without their biological family.
This is an inspiring story of the good, bad and the ugly, the life of Marla is one of love, losses, disappointments, betrayal, and triumph over challenges all throughout her life. My stories in this book don't just tell of abuse or neglect, but also of the difficulties that I face in the Missouri State Division of Child Welfare and foster care systems, how I was affected when my family did not bond with me as a small child, how my parents struggled to bond with me as a baby and I was born with a parent with alcohol and or drug addictions, and also the lack of ability to support me and my siblings as needed. But even though we as children experienced incredibly difficult times, these stories offer hope and inspiration that someone does care, and with the right support my and through my faith and trust in God my life was turned around.
Inspired by different relationships and various journal entries in hopes to find my way. There are four stages in life and in relationships; love, the break, bitter, and reflection. This book is a letter written poetically to God to express feelings and release some secrets that was cast away in journals throughout the years of struggle.
This is a collection of photos of what I called Expressive Tree People, because these trees seem to show their own personality. None of the photos have been change to enhance them. I have place a suggestive saying on the opposite page for entertainment. All of the photos were taken in the northern part of California. The book had 145 pages and over 88 photos.