Finding The Phoenix

About the Book

In and out of therapy since she was sixteen, Cecelia read everything she could find written by others who experienced child abuse or sexual abuse. These books related the facts of the events. They didn’t really offer any understanding of what it takes to recover.

When your spirit has been spent you don’t know where to begin. How do you learn to love, when you were raised without love? How do you learn that you are loveable? How do you learn to love yourself? How do you learn to forgive?

First and foremost, I hope that others like myself will find within these pages a few ideas or tools to use to create a better life for themselves. Life is after all what you choose to make it. The power to change your life for the better is within you. You just have to find it.

For the general public, I hope to give a glimpse of the pain, turmoil, rage, confusion, numbness, frustration, disappointment, and malcontent we find ourselves saddled with. In this way they may be able to recognize how they can become instrumental in helping someone who is silently screaming for help.

About the Author

Cecelia lives with her husband of forty-four years in White Lake, Michigan. They have three grandchildren, one daughter-inlaw and two sons who chose to buy homes just a few miles away from them.

Her first item published was a short story when she was fifteen years old. As an Associate Broker in real estate, Cecelia wrote several articles appearing in local and national professional magazines. Her columns on dining out appeared in the local Weight Watchers newspaper. Her articles have been published in local newspapers and the magazine section of The Detroit News. Now sixty-nine years old she has written and brings you Finding the Phoenix.

Cecelia offers you the wisdom of a woman who has done more than survive sex abuse and child abuse. She made her life better than most that have had to deal with it. She believes you can too.