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Family ViolenceDomestic ViolenceChild AbuseNot easy topics to read about,not easy to talk about, butyou can heal and forgive andbe completely free.You can be the beginning of peace.If you have experienced family violence at any level, it could be that your parents struggled with domestic violence, or your family just had feuds and disagreements that hurt one generation to the next. Family violence always hurts and perpetuates violence. It looks different behind the mask of illusions. Peace begins with you. You can change the negative impacts, heal the psychological, spiritual, and emotional wounds. You can mend the heart, heal the physical body, and ultimately free the psyche. When you heal, your family heals; when your family heals, your children and their children heal. Family violence is intergenerational, and peace begins when you say yes to peace. The violence stops when you have the courage to say yes to peace. Poetry is a tool; healing and restorative poetry is a creative art. This coffee-table poetry book, Peace Begins When Family Violence Ends, is an initiation and invitation for you to choose forgiveness and peace.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	18 septembre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462410293
Langue	English

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Peace Begins When Family Violence Ends

Chelsea Elizabeth Greene

Copyright © 2014 Chelsea Elizabeth Greene.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-1029-3 (e)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-1028-6 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014913597

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 8/17/2014
Contents
Dedication
Professional Comments
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Borrowed Heritage
I Am The Story
Borrowed Heritage
Only Soul Knows
Mother Cleo, Father James
Abandoned
Nanny Greene
Grandma Smith
Miss Gibson
Aunt Dot
Roots Of Rejection
Two Brothers And Me
No Food, No Shelter
Hold On To Your Innocence
How Can I Grow Up?
Vulnerable Child
Memories Speak
Family Violence And The Voice Of The Child
The Voice
Gone, Gone, Where Did They Go?
If Pain
House Of Fire
The Belt
Rage
Whispers In My Ear
Behind Closed Doors
Mean Man
Drinking Money
The Attack On Daddy
Highway Lines
Charles City Road
Without Lies
Dear Jesus
Be Tender And Sweet
Peace Begins
Create When You Are Broken
One Fostered Child
Truth
Listen When Wisdom Speaks
Be Determined And Strong
Mountain Healing
Forgiveness
Forgiving Mother
Perfect Forgiveness
Mending The Mother’s Womb
Washington
Defend Yourself
Echoing Angels
Honor Your Holiness
The Love Song To God
In The Circle Of Life
Perfect Timing
Peace Begins
About The Author
Dedication
To my son –
Whom I am so thankful for and so very proud of…
I dedicate this book to you and your future.

I am a very happy mother – we share a special bond, a family connection that no matter where in the world we may be, we are always connected.

Thank you for all the wonderful memories – the challenges and the good times we remember. You helped motivate me to take action, to dream and to stay grounded – when I had to take risks, you encouraged me, and taught me how to have better boundaries. Your will and inner strength when times were tougher than nails gave me courage to take risks.

I will continue to grow, learn, and “Be the Peace” because you are my child and I am your mother.
Professional Comments
Chelsea provided professional counseling in our medical pediatric office in a rural community. Her work has included family advocacy, human services, child welfare, and professional counseling. She has been an advocate for family and domestic violence education and prevention. This book Peace Begins , is a motivation and inspirational true story to help families and children.
Dr. Masoud Ahdieh, MD

You have widened my sense of what is possible ... as you write about the struggle for psychic survival, your words can help me to dare to try and express deeper issues in my life,may you grow in wisdom and love for many, many years to come.
Dr. Tony Pearce,PHD
Norwich University

As a therapist, Chelsea has always had the client as a priority; she has used solid clinical judgement, this book is about the art of the creative process… and its therapeutic value for families and children who are dealing with family violence,healing and recovery.
Dr. Joseph Apollo, Ph.D art of creative healing

Chelsea has transformed an amorphous view of wholeness and healing into a new view of creative and transformational wholeness. She has worked her way thru a great deal of inner defenses and pain to a place or greater freedom. This poetic story of healing will inspire others.
Dr. James Farr, Ph.D
Acknowledgements
I thank God for his grace.

I thank the folks at Guidepost, Inspiring Voices, that I know and don’t know that participated in making this book a reality. Thank you for your expertise, excellence and for providing me a platform to publish, for helping me share the message to end all forms of family violence and hold the sacred space for peace to begin . Poetry is medicine for the soul, publishing and marketing it to help other men, women and children a larger task – Thank You!

I want to thank Joyce Blackley of Blackley’s Printing & Sign Shop in Clayton, North Carolina and Joyce’s staff, for being so focused and encouraging. They have provided typing, and editing assistance. Joyce, thank you for your encouraging words, “the world is open to you.”

Thanks to Amy Ammons Garza, my writing coach and teacher, founder/writer of “Catch the Spirit of the Appalachia,” you told me I am a writer and poet… I didn’t believe you, but you helped shape my destiny; and gave me encouragement to “pick up my pen.”

Thanks for the support and therapeutic relationships I had with Dr. James Farr, Ph.D., founder of Farr Associates in Greensboro, NC, Dr. Ginny Wright, Ph. D, Dr. Steven DeBerry, and many others who supported me in my own “healing space” during the “healing years” of my life.

Thank you to significant others, my son, my mother, brothers, my former husbands Bob and Tony and other family members. In addition to Eliel Pierre, writer, friends- Pat, Rick, Ruth, Karen and Dave, Pastor Ben, Steve, Randy, Grace Church, Chuck, Linda, Judy & Mike in Waynesville, NC whose house on top of the mountains in which I lived and where I wrote many of the “story poems”. Also, my legal friends John, George and Chris.
Introduction
This “true story” and table top poetry book has been written during the last 10 years from 2004 – 2014. It reflects a life story – of events – and the experience of healing from family violence. It was during the “healing years” of my life, that I started this collection of poems. I never imagined it would become a book that could help many other people – men, women and children – resolve to stop all forms for family violence and let peace begin.
I wrote most of these poems living on top of a mountain on the Blue Ridge Parkway, alone by myself for nine months – it was during those nine months, I pieced myself back together, integrated years of therapy and made a decision to dedicate my life to helping others heal and restore their own lives from the wounds of family and domestic violence. Knowing this would not be easy topics to talk about nor to heal from and change, it seemed that my journey in life had lead me to the “top of the mountain” to begin that process. I wrote my truth, my experience and did my best to invite healing and peace into the dark places where the light was very dim.
As a licensed professional counselor, I hold a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and from 25 years of experience and combined education, I know people can heal from all forms of domestic/family violence. It can end, and peace can begin for future generations of children and families.
Peace Begins TM – a Family Violence 12 Step Recovery Program – has been birthed from the completion of this story, narrative and healing poetry book.
If you want more information about the Peace Begins: Family Violence Recovery Program, please visit www.SageofNC.com .
Borrowed Heritage
I am the Story
Borrowed Heritage
Only Soul Knows
Mother Cleo, Father James
Abandoned
Nanny Greene
Grandma Smith
Miss Gibson
Aunt Dot
Roots of Rejection
Two Brothers and Me
No Food, No Shelter
Hold on to Your Innocence
How Can I Gro w Up?