Eve’s Covering is a work from my wounded heart. In the process of writing, however, it healed, allowing me to share my story with you. People warned me to keep my story a secret…as if I should be ashamed of it. But I can’t do that. I’ve worked through the shame, and now I’m sharing my story to help others find the courage to face adversity. God rescuing a child out of the darkness of a cult is a miraculous thing! You see, it was God who protected me in the midst of the fire, walking with me through it, bringing me out on the other side.
I recently stumbled across some posts I wrote when I was on my first draft of Eve’s Covering. I even created a website called A Novel Endeavor to document my writing journey. If you’re wondering why you never heard about it-it’s because […]
It’s obvious that ordinary is not exciting. It’s what we say when something is run-of-the-mill or hum drum. Blah. Boring. But, when something is extraordinary, it’s more than exciting. It exceeds expectations. It’s phenomenal. The question is, how do we get out of this muddy, slow rut of the ordinary and break into the fast lane of extraordinary?
Autofiction is an autobiography, but it’s also fiction. It’s the blending of lines between fact and fiction-fantasy and reality. For me, it was a way of connecting the dots.
Many things led up to the pivotal decision I made that changed my life forever. The most important being isolation. The cult leaders (Simon and Marigold in my novel) separated me from my family and friends by planting doubt and fear in my heart…
My family and I were members of the cult’s inner circle for years. If you’re wondering how these ordinary people got their hooks into us and sucked us into their cult, you’re not alone.
I’m a survivor. I escaped the bondage of a religious cult, coming out on the other side battered both physically and mentally, but not beaten. That’s great, but how does one move past that? Not just survive, but flourish? After I escaped, […]