I Will Not Break: A Memoir

Im recommending a great book about bravery pain & overcoming childhood... abuse. Judie Mattisons horrifying reality was hidden--even from her own mind--for decades. Her memoir shares her healing journey & is beyond empowering for all! --GRETCHEN CARLSON journalist and best-selling authorAs a child she had to forget in order to survive. As an adult she had to remember in order to be free.Judith Mattison had a conventional 1940s Midwestern childhood followed by college marriage and children. Still throughout her life she was haunted by a mysterious terror of deer head hunting trophies. With the help of a therapist she began to recover memories of severe abuse at the hands of her father. Unearthing her repressed past she learned that forgetting was how she coped as a child. Remembering as an adult broke her apart--and then put her together again. In the process she struggled to overcome shame and fear to embrace anger and to claim her truth.I Will Not Break was a finalist in the annual book awards of Midwest Independent Publishing Association memoir category. It has been a valuable resource for survivors of trauma and their support people as well as those people concerned about issues of shame family or abuse.