About the book Breaking Free
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Laurie Forbes’s working title for her personal account of healing
from childhood abuse was Triumph. But that word describes Laurie’s
state upon exiting the process. Breaking Free, the title of the
published book, is more descriptive of the lengthy process itself.
Abuse — emotional, physical, psychological, and sexual — can hold
its victims fast, in the absence of tremendous strength of will,
sometimes forever. Laurie first fought, then faced her own long
suppressed memories of childhood psychological and sexual abuse.
Her eventual freedom came at the end of an arduous journey in
which she was sustained by her faith, the love and support of family
members and friends, and the care and guidance of her doctor and
therapist.
The remarkable detail in which Laurie describes her odyssey
reflects more than one thousand pages of journal entries that
consumed as much as eight hours per day and for which Laurie
sacrificed food, sleep, and time with her husband and children. The
story that has come out of the many hours she spent writing and
typing late into the night is one not of the shame and anger
precipitated by abuse or of the unimaginable pain and anguish
occasioned by the loss of two children in infancy, but rather of the
process of coming to terms and living with these experiences. It is a
story of tremendous personal strength, human compassion, and
divine intercession. Good and evil, love and hate, beauty and
wretchedness, and tragedy and triumph are all intertwined and
interwoven in Laurie’s personal experience of the human condition.
Reading Breaking Free will bring tears not only of sorrow and
commiseration, but of wonder and joy. ~ John Simon, Editor
from childhood abuse was Triumph. But that word describes Laurie’s
state upon exiting the process. Breaking Free, the title of the
published book, is more descriptive of the lengthy process itself.
Abuse — emotional, physical, psychological, and sexual — can hold
its victims fast, in the absence of tremendous strength of will,
sometimes forever. Laurie first fought, then faced her own long
suppressed memories of childhood psychological and sexual abuse.
Her eventual freedom came at the end of an arduous journey in
which she was sustained by her faith, the love and support of family
members and friends, and the care and guidance of her doctor and
therapist.
The remarkable detail in which Laurie describes her odyssey
reflects more than one thousand pages of journal entries that
consumed as much as eight hours per day and for which Laurie
sacrificed food, sleep, and time with her husband and children. The
story that has come out of the many hours she spent writing and
typing late into the night is one not of the shame and anger
precipitated by abuse or of the unimaginable pain and anguish
occasioned by the loss of two children in infancy, but rather of the
process of coming to terms and living with these experiences. It is a
story of tremendous personal strength, human compassion, and
divine intercession. Good and evil, love and hate, beauty and
wretchedness, and tragedy and triumph are all intertwined and
interwoven in Laurie’s personal experience of the human condition.
Reading Breaking Free will bring tears not only of sorrow and
commiseration, but of wonder and joy. ~ John Simon, Editor
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