I Never Heard A Robin Sing eBook Marjorie McKinnon SK Shannon
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Marjorie McKinnon writes a moving memoir that reads like a mystery where she buries her pain and the reality of a childhood trauma in her words, writing poetry, short stories and several books, both fiction and non-fiction. Despite not seeing this when she wrote, her words contain all that happened to her, as well as how she can heal. She grows up in a patriarchal, Catholic family in small towns in the Midwest. When she is thirteen her father rapes her as she lies asleep in her bottom bunk. Screaming for help, her mother eventually comes in to her bedroom after her father leaves and convinces Marjorie that she has had a nightmare. These “nightmares” continue until she is eighteen when she runs away from home spending the next 22 years going from one abuser to another. Two suicide attempts put her in a Psychiatric Ward. There will be more. At the age of 45, now married to her third abuser who is both sadistic and violent, she enters recovery, living part time in a women's shelter, writing a memoir in the desperate hope that it will help her in a search for the cause of her dysfunctional life. It will be a five -year period where she not only develops her own program of recovery while living in a domestic violence situation, but goes through a sexual harassment suit where she works. The two difficulties push her to the edge of her final suicide attempt, one that contains a miracle she can’t explain that saves her. Once she has completed recovery, having rid herself of her abuser, she becomes the happiest person she knows. After recovery, she spends three years developing the REPAIR program, a compilation of all she learned while in her own recovery.
She is the author of REPAIR Your Life A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse, REPAIR For Teens, REPAIR For Kids, REPAIR For Toddlers, The REPAIR Your Life Workbook, & It’s Your Choice! Decisions that Will Change Your Life. She is the founder of The Lamplighter Movement, a rapidly growing international movement for recovery from incest and child sexual abuse that emphasizes the importance of REPAIRing the damage. As of October 28, 2013 there are currently 85 Lamplighter chapters in eleven countries. The Lamplighter website is at http//www.thelamplighters.org.
I Never Heard A Robin Sing eBook Marjorie McKinnon SK Shannon
Why could I not put down this book while I was in the process of reading it? Was it the fact that I experienced another reality than my own while I read?In Marjorie McKinnon’s early years she is not encumbered with psychological terminology but poignantly tells the story with all the confusion of an abused child who had hope for good and beauty. We live in that suppressed and confused mind as we read. It is clear that she does not know what happened, but tells what her life was about from the child’s mind.
The details described call up another time, a simpler time, in her childhood. Like a diary she gives details that enliven the memories. Beautiful scenery means peace, happiness, healing. And irony inhabits each remembrance of beauty. In her style, poetry leaks into the prose and prose into the poetry. Each poem is meditation written at the time she dealt with the issue written of.
Even though some parts get long, the payoff is at the end. It is worth the length to get to the full reality of the story. As you read, you live the experience with Marjorie because she writes the repetitions of the agony and does not just summarize. She “collects people” to alleviate her pain. What she does not say mirrors for us the mind of the person who is abused. Rationality finally comes after lots of meetings and lots of uneven relationships with her children and siblings.
This is in no way the how-to book that she will later write; this is the personal struggle with its failures and ongoing illusions written out large.
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I Never Heard A Robin Sing eBook Marjorie McKinnon SK Shannon Reviews
In speaking of things that have been deemed by society to be unspeakable, there is virtue in having the ability to write with elegance and beauty. Marjorie McKinnon has again done that in her latest volume on the ravages of incest, occurring unrecognized in the quietude of a small town, and then lost in time and protected by amnesia, but hinted at by ongoing unexplained anguish throughout her life. “I Never Heard a Robin Sing” will be of real help to those very many people victimized by sexual abuse during childhood. In adult life, the consequences typically play out with major effects emotionally as well as medically.
Her willingness to share her story, as she previously has in several important, earlier volumes, is testament to her ongoing desire to help others realize that the shared understanding of what we consider unspeakable is the essence of the ultimate accepting of oneself - through understanding and thence acceptance by others, and by helping others.
Vincent J. Felitti, MD
Marjorie's story is truly inspirational. By sharing her own experiences with incest and abuse, she helped me face some of the demons of my own childhood. I recommend this book to all.
Why could I not put down this book while I was in the process of reading it? Was it the fact that I experienced another reality than my own while I read?
In Marjorie McKinnon’s early years she is not encumbered with psychological terminology but poignantly tells the story with all the confusion of an abused child who had hope for good and beauty. We live in that suppressed and confused mind as we read. It is clear that she does not know what happened, but tells what her life was about from the child’s mind.
The details described call up another time, a simpler time, in her childhood. Like a diary she gives details that enliven the memories. Beautiful scenery means peace, happiness, healing. And irony inhabits each remembrance of beauty. In her style, poetry leaks into the prose and prose into the poetry. Each poem is meditation written at the time she dealt with the issue written of.
Even though some parts get long, the payoff is at the end. It is worth the length to get to the full reality of the story. As you read, you live the experience with Marjorie because she writes the repetitions of the agony and does not just summarize. She “collects people” to alleviate her pain. What she does not say mirrors for us the mind of the person who is abused. Rationality finally comes after lots of meetings and lots of uneven relationships with her children and siblings.
This is in no way the how-to book that she will later write; this is the personal struggle with its failures and ongoing illusions written out large.
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