This Little Light of Mine A Memoir

"Sis, you need therapy!" Has anyone ever told you this? Unhealed adverse childhood experiences have an ironic way of manifesting its ugly head in our adulthood while forcing its characteristics and behaviors in our daily lives to help shape our lived experiences. Who would have thought that I'd be embracing my forties by finally coming to terms with the facts that growing up without my father, being molested and raped at an early age, and learning the prototype of a woman, particularly through black women whose lives are woven in generational trauma and burdened with the "I'm fine, I'm strong, and I can handle it myself," mentality, would be able to look adversity in its face and dare it to come harder. Through God's grace and mercy, I am still standing! In the pages of this book, you will hear the story of empowerment from a little girl whose innocence was taken, whose childhood was cultivated in calling on Jesus when the world became too heavy, and whose ideas about the dynamics of family drove her will to be a light in dark spaces. If your inner child were running towards you right now, what would that child be saying?