Journeys to Mother Love: Nine Women Tell Their Stories of Forgiveness & Healing

by Catherine Lawton (Compiler), Verna Simms (Other), A.R. Cecil (Other)

Overview

Women readers are sure to find themselves in one or more of these stories filled with grit and grace. The courageous authors of Journeys to Mother Love aren't merely venting about their mother wounds. Neither are they giving pat answers. The hurts were real and the healing was real. From manipulation to abandonment, from neglect to favoritism, from mental illness to emotional distance, from abortion to Alzheimer's, these nine women from several generations, tell their personal stories with heart-wrenching honesty. Each had hurts and conflicts in their mother/daughter relationship that left them wounded and affected their relationships with others. Each tells how, with God's help, they experienced healing and new freedom to give and receive love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780981892955
Publisher:	CLADACH Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

1. Our friends call us Cathy, Alice, Treva, Verna, Kerry, Kyleen, Ellen, Ardis, and Loritta. Our ages range from mid-thirties to early nineties!

2. We live in 7 different states: Colorado, Washington, Kentucky, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and California.

3. We all enjoy writing and several of us have more than one published book.

4. We are all mothers. Some of us are grandmothers. And at least one of us is a great-grandmother.

5. Many of us engage in other types of artistic endeavors as well, such as music, photography, painting/drawing, sewing/crafts, and poetry. Some of those expressions might occasionally creep into our blog (see below).

5. Several of us are business owners.

6. All of us are Christian believers, though our Christian beliefs have followed several different streams of the faith. We all have experienced grace in the midst of the grit of life.

7. Readers can learn more about our ongoing journeys— and join the journey— at our blog: www.journeystomotherlove.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

1 Feeling Inadequate: Run, Run as Fast as You Can A.R. Cecil 15

2 Devastated by Violence and Separation: She Did Her Best Treva Brown 32

3 Always "Second Fiddle": Take Care of Your Mother Verna Hill Simms 58

4 Adjusting to Changes in Mom: Finding the Blessings in Alzheimer's Kerry Luksic 76

5 After Abortion and Cancer: Beauty from Barrenness Kyleen Stevenson-Braxton 100

6 Unmet Emotional Needs: When I Feel Forsaken Catherine Lawton 123

7 Stepmother Blues: Finishing Well Ellen Cardwell 151

8 Distanced by Mental Illness: Walking My Mother Home Ardis A. Nelson 170

9 Angry and Frustrated with Mom: White Knuckles Loritta Slayton 194

Editorial Reviews

Journeys to Mother Love: Nine Women Tell their Stories of Forgiveness & Healing is an anthology of heartfelt true stories by Christian women about the healing gifts of God, and how He helped mothers bridge rifts between themselves and their children or stepchildren. ... Profound, powerful, and emotionally moving, Journeys to Mother Love is highly recommended as a resource of faith, inspiration, and hope.

Midwest Book Review