Remember To Forget

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Remember to Forget </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a gripping and thought-provoking memoir that inspires as it teaches with all the skillful pacing of a psychological suspense novel. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What weapons do we have to defend ourselves against deeply hidden assaults from the past? Without the fragments of memory linked together into a full picture of our personal</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>history we may remain helpless victims.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sex permeates Vernetta's traumatic young life while living with her single mother and older sister. The chaos of life with Mother and her alcohol-fueled anger emerges in Vernetta's adult years as a suicidal-depression that propels her into therapy where conflicted personality fragments introduce themselves. Within months dissociated-forgotten memories of sexual trauma are manifested by severe incapacitating physical experiences. However through it all Vernetta manages to continue her relationship with Mother.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After Mother's death the picture of a stately house that Mother burned down at age fifteen motivates Vernetta's search for answers to lingering questions her final pathway to wellness. </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Why did Mother deliberately burn down her family home? </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>she asks herself. </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What is the truth of why baby brother Buddy was suddenly gone? Why was Mother so angry?</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Although the search plunges Vernetta into Mother's murky past the difficult answers bring restorative healing.</span></p>