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Darkness Was My Candle

Name: Darkness Was My Candle
Author: Lora DeVore

An Odyssey of Survival and Grace

Lora DeVore,

352 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Darkness Was My Candle

An Odyssey of Survival and Grace

Lora DeVore,

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Born into poverty and violence, Lora's early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. Early trauma led to her institutionalization soon after she started college, an incarceration she would not have survived but for a courageous nurse who fought for her release. Fifty years later, with an advanced degree in clinical psychology, a long career as a successful mental health professional, a leading educator and sought-after public speaker, Lora revisited the grounds of the Illinois state mental hospital where she was once kept in inhumane, degrading, and life-threatening circumstances. This profound and compelling memoir traces her life as a survivor of child abuse, sex trafficking, illegal pharmacological drug research, and institutional abuse. Lora's experiences illuminate and validate the power of love and the strength of the indomitable human spirit that lives within each one of us. This is her story.

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Publisher

Confer Books

Year

2022

ISBN

9781913494506

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Psychotherapy

Index

Psychology

PRAISE
TITLE PAGE
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EPIGRAPH
Introduction
1: The Smell of Suffering
2: In the Beginning—War on the Home Front
3: Tornado Alley
4: Love’s Awakening
5: Dismemberment
6: Ward of the Court, 1962
Reflection: The Web of Life—Shirley and Carole
7: The Sharp Edges of the World
8: Shattered
9: Emerging from the Abyss
10: Fool’s Folly or Angels in Disguise?
Reflection: The Web of Life—Lee Godie
11: Enough
12: Beginning When the Past is Present
13: The Majesty of the Great Plains
14: Earthquake
15: The Scarlet Letter
Reflection: The Web of Life—Does Anybody Hear Her?
16: Beginnings—Excavating the Past
17: The Interior World of Healing Trauma
Reflection: Confronting Clergy Abuse—Margo Maris
18: Harvesting the Gifts of Unknowing
19: Purification—The Inner Fire
20: The Cat from Hell, 1995
21: Dream Portal
22: Hidden Treasure
23: Exploring the Heart of the Mystical Rose
24: Consolidation of All Things Healing
25: Weaving the World Together
26: Return
27: Presence
28: Fishing for Fallen Light
Afterword
REFERENCES
COPYRIGHT