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Everything can seem livelier and merry if you perceive it through the eyes of your inner child. One mere look at your inner child can change how you live your life; it can change how you struggle with trauma and all the abuse you have borne. Suffering is no more a hurdle if you reparent your inner child and heal yourself by healing the wounds that have scarred you from within. Listen to your inner child and nurture it, for it has been imprisoned and enslaved by the terror of delirium. Look at your inner child through the eyes of someone who knows what being hurt feels like, and that is where the journey of your healing begins. And once you acknowledge the child within you, y ...

Imagine Melanie’s curiosity after learning a secret her mother kept about Chuckie and his death. Combine that with an unscrupulous developer who wants to turn Bos Taurus Acres and other farms or ranches into retirement communities. Will rigged elections and crooked politicians close Melanie’s veterinarian service?

Josie is a girl who always seems to find herself in the middle of some situation, either self-generated or from outside sources. Still, she always seems to figure out how to resolve the problem, “from the inside out.” Josie has faced a kidnapping, her first true love and heartbreak, and then the odd disappearance of her mother. She is then put to the ultimate test when she succumbs to the agonizing heartache, one that only death can bring, and just when she seems to be handling her grief and loss, life throws her a giant curve ball, when she comes face to face with her presumed dead father from years past sending her into a tailspin of despair and uncertai ...

This collection of poetry is one meant to leave the reader speechless but wholesome. This is an inside scoop on an ordinary teenage girl (yours truly) battling depression, among other things. Why poetry you ask? To me, it is the most vulnerable and impactful form of writing. With this book I plan to speak on behalf of those who can not and let it be known that they are not alone.