Resilient Me and Bibliotherapy

Janie Lancaster 9/7/1512:34 PM

Last night I took your test and my ACEs score was 8 or 9. As a child no one was there for me. In the 1950's and 60's parents had all the power. So I thought about how I became resilient. It was Biblio therapy or Story-therapy.

I found...

a kindred spirit in Pippi Longstocking

hope from a Shirley Temple

a path from a Secret Garden

a dream from a Cinderella

a way to live from a Pollyanna

Later in life my right brain woke up and...

I wrote...

a novel "Julie & the Lost Fairy Tale" to relive my childhood, the way it should have been

a novel "Emily/Out of My Mother's Darkness" to find my true self

a book "When Silence Reigns" to tell the truth and say it out loud

I wrote...

for the truth to be told

for secrets to be revealed

to understand my story

to help others to understand thiers

to comfort others

to comfort ME

If someone tells a story and no one listens, was the story told?

LISTEN and give A Voice to A Silenced Child

Is that not where true healing begins?

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Robert OlcottMember

Thank You, Janie Lancaster. I also read in the hopes of understanding, catering to my curiosity... My parents, for my third birthday, gave me a copy of The Dialogues of Plato, and The Republic; but it wasn't until I was about 16, that I found the book in a dresser drawer in my grandmother's house, not with any decorative paper or a bow on it, just a handwritten note on the inside cover: "To Bobby, from Mom and Dad, Happy Birthday 1953". I had a Bibliography of Children's Books, which address an assortment to traumas, from Hurricanes and Tornadoes, to having active-duty military parents returning from combat, hoping to provide some resilience, or for use during story hour and children's book discussions, to encourage empathy and resilience....

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