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    Fracture Lines
    Fracture Lines
    Fracture Lines
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    Fracture Lines

    By Grace Young

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    Grace Young believes that we are all warriors and miracles who, through various struggles and challenges, have each acquired fracture lines. With the hope of bringing peace, empowering women, and encouraging a movement that emphasizes inner strength, self-love, and courage, Young shares details of her amazing journey through life, during which she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, learned to trust her power and find her voice, and eventually healed her own fracture lines.

    Young begins by offering a glimpse into her chaotic childhood, overshadowed by a violent, alcoholic father whose unpredictable rages cast a dark cloud over a dysfunctional family situation. After her mother suddenly died and her father remarried, she quickly learned to trust her intuition in order to survive within a volatile home environment. Even after she was raped by an uncle at age seventeen, she somehow managed to pick herself up, attend college, and marrywithout any idea that soon life would once again test her strength.

    Fracture Lines is the true story of one womans life experiences as she finds the power within to overcome her greatest challenges and define her destiny.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 16, 2014
    ISBN9781491730294
    Fracture Lines
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    Grace Young

    Grace Young is an award-winning food writer and the author of Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen and The Breath of a Wok. Her work has appeared in Gourmet, Metropolitan Home, Copia, Gastronomica, Eating Well, More, Fitness, Home, and Health magazine. For seventeen years, Young was the Test Kitchen Director and Director for Food Photography for over forty cookbooks published by Time-Life Books. She is now a consulting editor at Saveur.

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      Fracture Lines - Grace Young

      Copyright © 2014 Grace Young.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      In order to maintain anonymity, the author has changed the names of individuals and places, geographic locations, and conversations from memories throughout Fracture Lines. in some instances some identifying characteristics and details such as physical properties, occupations and places of residence have also been changed to protect the identity of the author and others. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is not intentional.

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-3028-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-3030-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-3029-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014905703

      iUniverse rev. date: 5/15/2014

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Preface

      Introduction

      Fracture One

      Fracture Two

      Fracture Three

      Fracture Four

      Fracture Five

      Fracture Six

      Fracture Seven

      Fracture Eight

      Fracture Nine

      Fracture Ten

      Fracture Eleven

      Fracture Twelve

      Fracture Thirteen

      Fracture Fourteen

      Conclusion

      Journal Page

      Journal Page

      Journal Page

      Journal Page

      Dedication

      To my dear Lord who gave me the strength to write this book

      My Mother whose limited times here on earth

      blessed everyone she met.

      Acknowledgements

      To my dear friends, and you know who you are.

      Anne, Rae

      Steve, Tom

      My son, daughter, and granddaugter

      And counselors who taught me it was never about me

      Preface

      This cathartic, inspirational book was written to empower many women whose voices have been silenced. It was also written for the men who love them. Some may call this shattered silence, but I simply cannot ruminate about what is wrong or right anymore. For me, the time is now.

      We must grasp each other’s hands and tell our stories loudly, saying good-bye to the nightmares that haunt us day and night and to the voices that say we are not good enough, those that defeat who we were meant to be. Now is the time to let our lights shine and show our brilliance. None of us can control what happened to us when we had no voice or were too young to know we had a voice, and certainly this was never ever about us. The actions of others never define us, but we take them along with us in life, believing somehow we were at fault, leading us into a maze of despair.

      Are you starting to recognize yourself here? Do you remember those dark times when you had no voice, no empowerment? What have you taken into your life from this, and how has it affected you? We all are wounded warriors, and the scars are there. These scars manifest themselves by oozing through our personalities, social skills, addictions, relationships, parenting, and family ties. As for me, these scars have become fracture lines. A fracture may heal, but I personally will probably never forget exactly where that fracture occurred and what caused it.

      Writing this has not been easy. I speak to people daily, and I speak from my heart and soul. The memories are always present for me. Time does not make it any easier.

      Like others, I’ve learned to mask my memories and use diversions so life is bearable. The time is here and now to know that we are not alone. We are survivors, and we have fought and battled, which makes us warriors. We have the voice of empowerment, which is what this book is about. We can and will stand up for ourselves and others we know. It takes a very strong person to reach out to women who perhaps seem shy, reclusive, and aloof. A hug, smile, or caring gesture may be all they need to make the start into their journey of healing their anguish. We all need a shoulder to lean on, and sometimes family members are not available or are at the root of the problem.

      My greatest wish if you are healing is that something you read in this book resonates with you, on any level, and you think to yourself, Wow, finally, someone not only had the guts to write about this, but also has addressed how we can start empowerment groups all around the country! We have a voice and it must be heard! Collectively there is no education level required either. Many victims turn into workaholics so they don’t have to think about those years, those moments, those hurts, etc. Some do take on more powerful positions (e.g., doctors, attorneys, and such).

      However, the vast majority shut down. Women need to help other women find their mojo, so to speak. If not now, when? Has there ever been a better time to talk about these taboo subjects that have been swept under the rug for years and are still eating us alive?

      We listen to the talk shows, and yes, we read the books, but this book is about women starting empowerment circles all over the country, reclaiming their voices that they thought were lost. I know, from the bottom of my heart, we can sit in groups and say, This was never your fault! How great would that be? We can reclaim our lives at any age. It would be very empowering to hear those morose, deafening stories and free ourselves from those agonizing scars and fractures that have torn apart our minds and bodies—knowing someone cares!

      So, as hard as it was to write my

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