For Christmas my daughter gifted me a cute mini Kindle book reader, and as someone who is severely allergic to the metal powders in toner, no longer reading printed material is a blessing. She made some recommendations to me and I figured I’d share some of my reads that I found very enjoyable.

The first one I want to share is “The Medicine Woman of Galveston”; (click to see more books by Amanda Skenandore). On Goodreads (there are links to buy her books there, for the different platforms and types.)

I really didn’t know what to expect when I first saw this book, I thought it would be trite, trashy and possibly about a Shaman selling her services, but I was wrong.

The main character Dr. Tucia Hatherley has PTSD and an OCD hair pulling disorder is trichotillomania – it’s a condition that causes people to repeatedly pull out their hair, which can lead to hair loss. She has a son with Down’s syndrome and her life ended up with them living in abject poverty and in very dire circumstances, all because she did her best to keep her son from being institutionalized and her not having any type of support for some very traumatic events she endured.

I was touched to see her healing trajectory through the story, and as you know that is something near and dear to my heart. I found the writing to be warm and very supportive of the different character’s different life difficulties without getting clichéd.

Tucia became an MD at a time when women still weren’t allowed to enroll in many medical schools, and the path to becoming a practicing physician is rocky. She not experienced many of the well-known roadblocks to women, but she had men punishing her for saying no to them.

I’ve had men punishing me for refusing their advances, so I could relate and understand how plausible her situation was. Even in this day and age, women face uphill struggles and battles to just live and be safe.

Her story is a happy story of redemption, healing and growth, which I find very encouraging, for it shows us that even if we come through dark times that have broken us, we can still heal, and develop peaceful, satisfying lives. A large part of her growth comes through the community and friendships she builds with other people who have also had difficult and tragic lives, and through their bonds they each found their own healing and growth.

This isn’t a heavy read, I found it very enjoyable! I recommend this book!

Here are some posts to help you on your own healing path:

• Where do you start when you don’t know where to start?
• Generational curses: are they breakable?
• Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it!
• Revenge: is it necessary or not?
• A helpful trick to be able to overcome negatively Comparing Ourselves to others…
• Your emotions: the quiet lazy River or the roller coaster?
• Teaching ourselves to like, even to love ourselves is the best gift we can give ourselves!
• As we practice being gentle and kind with ourselves, we actually help to speed the process of helping our lives become more positive!
• By changing our inner dialogue, we change EVERYTHING!
• Loving Ourselves… means we don’t always put ourselves LAST!
• Never lower your standards just because you are lonely. It is better to be by yourself than to be with the wrong person.
• Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your life will never Change.
• How people treat you is their karma… How you react is yours…
• It is always an inside work. It starts within us
• No matter how long you’ve traveled in the wrong direction, you can always turn around
• The most important spiritual growth doesn’t happen when you’re meditating or on a yoga mat.
• You are allowed to be both a Masterpiece and a Work in Progress, simultaneously.
• Let your past make you better not bitter.
• Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.
• Are you co-dependent and trying to hang on at all costs?
• This world may never understand you. That is not your fault, that is your gift.
• How to stop taking things personally
• Forget the pain but never the lessons you gained.
• Nothing is set in stone! “What have I got to lose?”

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Blessings!
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