Vanessa Hicks. All rights reserved. Published by permission. In recent weeks, I’ve discovered how hard it is to overcome emotions and any fears I have. In my drawings, I find I can switch off, but also use my creative time to figure out what is going on inside myself. Sometimes it gets the frustration out, […]
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The Shadows in My Heart by Mary A. Havens
Mary Havens shares her compelling story in, The Shadows in My Heart, where she unmasks the truth and tragic consequences of family secrets and mysteries. This groundbreaking autobiography, her lifelong quest, is about real people who inhabited a sleepy, peaceful Midwestern dairy farm in the Wisconsin Ocooch Mountains. The Shadows in My Heart offers strength and hope […]
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A Stray, Wet Cat by Roxie Stricker
Could she have done something? It’s too late now to tell. Too late to go back. She’s gone forward, for sure. More than most. But she still feels it. Fear can’t seem to escape her coursing bloodstream. She wants someone to hold her. To protect her. She is but a cold stray cat who has […]
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Ink Boxer Dog by Vanessa Hicks
Vanessa Hicks. All rights reserved. Published by permission.
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I Will Never Be the Same Again by Asha Lightbearer
Every time I sing this song I am reminded of the sweetness of happy, healthy romantic love. In the past, my understanding of love was pretty much synonymous with pain, loss or longing. However, a few years ago, I decided I was not going to play that game any more. I spent the next decade […]
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Fiona by Asha Lightbearer
Fiona is the story of child sexual abuse survivors everywhere–abused by the people they know and trust, and most often silently carrying the pain and shame of that abuse into their adult lives and relationships. Only when we are willing to face what happened to us, feel the pain, and grieve the loss of our […]
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