An Inside Look Into Healing A Young Girl with ACEs

Very powerful, Janie. I'm looking forward to reading the book.

Jane Stevens posted:

What age group is this book for, Janie? Why did you decide to write it?

I hope this book will be read by all ages, especially parents and teachers but the girl in the book is twelve years old. The book should be healing for those who have suffered childhood abuse.

The story is character driven by the lost child in me and healed by the adult I have become as well as the things I have learned, how things should have been or wished they had been.

I had a right brain awakening about twelve years ago that led to hypergraphia and Jasmine was part of that writing. During that time I was tossed back and forth in time emotionally and mentally seeing things from the inside out as well as the outside in. It was a time of insight and awareness that put me in overdrive processing my past, present and future life. Imagine part of your brain that you did not have access or even know existed waking up.

I  am in the process of editing Jasmine now.

Here is a short piece of the story.

“ I want you to come with me daddy I want to show you something.” Jasmine said.

“Anything sweetheart,” he answered as she took him by the hand. They both walked over to the Horton Plaza Mall and soon stood before the picture of the little boy with the haunting eyes.

Jasmine’s father looked at the boy’s hopeless face and unforgettable eyes. He stood frozen as he read the words that were written on the boy's face. Worthless. Stupid. Idiot. Shut up. I’ll smack you. I’m sick of you.

Jasmine took the tiny picture that she was holding tightly in her right hand and she showed it to her dad. He looked at the picture of his little girl. It said second grade class.  It was Jasmine’s school picture with the same sad empty look and the same haunting eyes.

Jasmine pointed to the little boy’s picture that was hanging on the wall and said to her father, “That’s me daddy and I don’t know how to erase the words.”

I wrote this while I was sitting at the Horton Plaza mall, looking at the picture of the that same boy, with tears streaming down my face. And at that time I too didn't know how to erase those words.

What age group is this book for, Janie? Why did you decide to write it?