A Sense of Something Lost: Learning to Face Life's Challenges

by Sue Wells

Overview

Everyone has a story to tell and can feel trapped by it. This inspirational memoir, A Sense of Something Lost is about liberation after years of restlessness and searching. Sue Wells, asks: can a woman who has experienced the trauma of a forced adoption be free to live her life? Do traumas, whatever their nature, shape, define or ruin our lives? Or encourage us to see that our greatest challenges are also keys to the freedom we seek, enabling us to find who we are beyond our personal story? For anyone trapped by their story, this is a radical way of finding freedom through ancient Eastern mysticism by realising what can never be lost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789042849
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	02/28/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	911 KB

About the Author

Sue Wells is a non-fiction writer and the author of Within Me, Without Me: Adoption - An Open and Shut Case? Sue is a qualified social worker and family therapist, having spent much of her life travelling around the world before settling in London. She has written on and been interviewed about adoption many times, including publishing articles in the Guardian and Red magazine, and speaking on the BBC's Women's Hour. Originally from New Zealand, Sue now lives in Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Part I Lost 1

Prologue 3

Chapter 1 Doing My Duty 5

Chapter 2 The Confession 11

Chapter 3 After the Confession 17

Chapter 4 The Family Scapegoat 23

Chapter 5 The Reynolds, the Riots and the Winds of Change 27

Chapter 6 Ponderings on the Profession 33

Chapter 7 The Power of the Parent 41

Chapter 8 No Way Out 47

Chapter 9 For Your Own Good 55

Chapter 10 An Unlikely Proposal 61

Chapter 11 Secrets and Lies: the Reynolds' Family Tree 65

Chapter 12 The Felling of the Family Tree 69

Chapter 13 The Power of Shame 75

Chapter 14 Banished 81

Chapter 15 A 'Proper' Family; Married with Children 87

Chapter 16 Incarceration 97

Chapter 17 The Things I Did Tell John 103

Chapter 18 The Things I Didn't Tell John 111

Chapter 19 Within Me, Without Me 117

Part II Still Lost 123

Chapter 20 Go Away and Forget 125

Chapter 21 The Day My Mum Died 133

Chapter 22 Mediums and Mixed Messages 143

Chapter 23 The Birthday 153

Chapter 24 Falling Apart with the Reynolds Family 159

Chapter 25 A Solitary Session with a Psychotherapist 163

Chapter 26 Time to Start Facing the Music 167

Chapter 27 'Make Me One with Everything' (spiritual saying) 173

Chapter 28 More Mysterious Mirrorings 185

Chapter 29 Final Family Session without the Family 189

Chapter 30 Prelude to Another Mother 193

Chapter 31 Visiting the 'Mother' 195

Chapter 32 Run-up to Reunion 199

Chapter 33 The Actual Reunion 207

Chapter 34 The Need for Forgiveness 217

Chapter 35 Short Honeymoon - Long Apocalypse 227

Chapter 36 Sarah's 35th Birthday 233

Chapter 37 Forgiveness of Self: with a little help from Marcus the amazing medium 243

Chapter 38 Harold the Hero 249

Part III What Can Never Be Lost 257

Chapter 39 Letting Go 259

Chapter 40 Walking the Camino 265

Chapter 41 The Voice 273

Chapter 42 An Ancient Chinese Oracle 279

Chapter 43 Coincidence or Synchronirity? 281

Chapter 44 Sarah's Birthday - Aged 50 289

Chapter 45 Unhooked 293

Chapter 46 The Gift of the Story 297