I turned my test into a testimony
Read more about my book, Choosing Peace: One Orphan’s Guide to Healing from Childhood Trauma, below
This book is dedicated to the little girl within me that never stopped searching for love and acceptance. Her name is Muffin.
She was not protected by those who named her. To survive the world’s strife, I hid her away, the innocent girl who was ready to love. Now as a woman by many other titles and names I have returned to reclaim and embrace her. She has been hidden and her cries ignored too long.
My message to her is: “I need you and you need me. You are safe here and I am safe with you. We will heal each other to break the generational curses because we need each other to love as deeply as our collective self was created to.”
This is for everyone trying to reclaim and heal their connection with their inner child.
“Nothing is lost…Everything is transformed.” - Michael Ende, The NeverEnding Story.
I lost my mother but, I gained my purpose.
Excerpt from book:
“As painful as it has been living without my mother and navigating all the issues stemming from having a broken childhood, I wouldn’t change a thing. I look at my life today and realize that it is what I prayed for and more, with one small change it could have altered the path to my purpose; that would be unfulfilling, and my life would be void.”
Healing is an Inside Job.
Excerpt from Book:
“For so long, I sought external validation and wondered why I never received it in the way I wanted no matter how much I accomplished. I didn’t realize at the time that I wasn’t getting the external validation I wanted because I had never given it to myself first and I didn’t give myself validation because, subconsciously, I didn’t believe I was worthy of it.”
“No matter how egregious the offense, you have the power to reclaim your memories, your now and your future.”
-Shalita O’Neale, Choosing Peace: One Orphan’s Guide to Healing from Childhood Trauma