Honey Bee Blues

<p>Jeff Corley MD a cosmetic dentist and the eldest sibling of the Corley family was born broken and afraid lacking what is needed to form a healthy personality. As he grew family events revealed Jeff’s deadly fear of bees and he became convinced that honey bees hate him and create his misery. At age seven he accidentally blinds Emmy Lou his only childhood friend. That tragedy drives his ill-fated need to overcome shame and to make a new identity. Little Jeff fades away and a new shadow child takes his place an obsessed child with a narcissistic personality disorder who grew into a self-centered man filled with damaging spiritual pride. Jeff believes that marrying the perfect woman will solve his problems but the women he finds do not measure up. Then he meets Elissa Fortuna a strange medicine woman who removes his deep pain but sends him away with unrequited love. Heartbroken he attempts suicide by thrashing into honey bee hives but spiritual forces work through the bees to keep him alive and to tear away his pride. Jeff’s hopeful transformation arises from both the natural world and his deepest wound the blinding of Emmy Lou the sad event where he first mislaid his love and compassion as a child. Includes Readers Guide.</p>