by admin | Aug 31, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
What or who is it that helped you to overcome and move in the direction of healing? My friend, Diane and her mother (aka “Mom”) loved me during the most confusing time in my life. While they weren’t able to help me to stop my downward spiral, I truly...
by admin | Aug 26, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
If you haven’t already, please try to explain your thoughts and hopes about the future as you were experiencing your personal trauma. The future? I had absolutely no dreams for a future. I simply existed. As a matter of fact, because I had no hope for happiness, I...
by admin | Aug 24, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
Why was this experience debilitating for you? I was already quite withdrawn from being separated from my family during third grade. By the time I was molested at the age of 12, I had become increasingly withdrawn, confused and scared. (The person that attacked me was...
by admin | Aug 19, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
What is the trauma that you have overcome? Wow. So here we go… I was under the distinct impression that my parents didn’t want me. I was hospitalized in first grade for two weeks for pneumonia. In third grade, my family was building a house on a 15 acre lot and...
by admin | Aug 17, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
As a child, did you have a dream about the future? As a child, you were probably asked this question by a wide variety of people. Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, teachers, clerks at the grocery store…perfect strangers felt the liberty to ask you what you wanted to...
by admin | Aug 12, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
Why are you choosing to participate in this book? Honestly, it never would have happened but for any number of people along the way. I’ve always wanted to write a book, but if you had told me that this would be my first one, I would have told you that you were...
