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    Waking Reality: Acts of Innocence and Awakenings
    Waking Reality: Acts of Innocence and Awakenings
    Waking Reality: Acts of Innocence and Awakenings
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    Waking Reality: Acts of Innocence and Awakenings

    By Donna LeClair

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    In a world where the WHO recently reported that 1 in 3 Women worldwide are victims of violence....I hope this book is a crucial opening for other women to tell their personal stories on the devastating emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual impact of Interpersonal Violence on their and their children's lives. This visceral, harrowing, and haunting tale, bears witness to the often inescapable 'violence trap' set by families, religion, the justice system, and social constructs that women fall (or are pushed) into. And which is often followed by the devastating emotional trap of internalizing that violence. The author, with raw, emotional honesty holds little back and allows us to live through the terror, horror and devastation of her personal experience. Throughout, and against all odds, it is that same honesty of self and spirit that burns beneath the surface, is unbelievably never extinguished, and carries her to salvation. The voice is unique, personal, and empowering. You will not be the same. Read to understand what the women in your life (your sisters, friends, mothers) experience, and for inspiration to survive your own trials. Then speak your own story. This voice should be joined in chorus. This voice will ring in your ears for years to come.

    In 1963, the State of Ohio v. Bill Bush murder trial turns the lives of an ingenuous family into nightmarish chaos after a police sergeant viciously murders three members. Waking Reality divulges the astonishing way authorities force protective custody, the distressing repercussions, and startling revelations. It is a story of life—at its best and worst.

    Spanning fifty years, the author cinematically splices suspense and fairy tales into a spine-tingling memoir that is equal-part family saga, psychotherapy, and jigsaw puzzle. It stumbles down the dark alleys of America and into the invisible lives of the homeless while rummaging through the lonely streets of rejection and into the raw trap of abuse and addiction. Constantly transforming, it travels inside a living breed called family and the ties that bind them, leaving you spellbound and speechless. It gifts you hope and belief, but more importantly, it shows you love.

    Forgiveness is learned and lives understood as this dark tale unravels awareness, enlightenment, and eventual salvation. Delivered is thankfulness for faith, family, and oneself as you learn to take the happilies while gifted. Every single one of them. Every single time."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDonna LeClair
    Release dateMar 7, 2018
    ISBN9781370809226
    Waking Reality: Acts of Innocence and Awakenings
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    Donna LeClair

    I have a lot of things to say, but not about me as my world does not revolve around me, myself, and I. Although, I can claim I am the proud Mother of two and grandmother of three. I am a person. I am real. I bleed the same as YOU. I walk through life, waking and sleeping, eyes wide open; celebrating each and every breath I am gifted, I search for that which is invisible and weeping for exposure. This is my wish for YOU: LIFE. LOVE. PEACE. HAPPINESS. VISIBILITY. Then I am complete. Only then will I know my writing was not vain. Only then.

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