I Lost My Marbles

Why, when we live in a sexually obsessed culture, do we hide our sexual brokenness? So many children are emotionally abandoned after abuse and left to navigate their way alone through life, struggling to find sexual wholeness. It takes a great deal of courage to confront an abuser. The shame, along with the lie that we are not good enough, lingers long after the abuse. I believe it is what fuels the secrets. If victims were able to tell their stories safely and freely, I believe they would be able to heal far more easily from childhood abuse. ?What a great example of ?You have to live it if you're going to give it.' Caren has helped all of us live it better.' Stephen Arterburn, Founder of New Life Ministries ?I Lost My Marbles is an authentic, vulnerable look at a journey no one ever signs up to take. Written with courage and honesty, Caren Dillman's story reveals the abuse that many suffer at the hand of a trusted loved one. Her book is also a humorous and candid love story, and a narrative of faith that is developed in the midst of the storm. The powerful conclusion will take your breath away.' Gayle M. Samples, PhD Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Executive Director at Emmaus Road Counseling ?A powerful read, presented with honesty and hope. Caren Dillman's unflinching narrative of trauma strikes deep in the heart. We feel her pain, her shame, and her confusion. We cheer her victories. Most of all, we come away with a profound appreciation for the author's story and her willingness to bring it into the light.' Tammy Fletcher, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist www.fletchertherapy.com

"There IS life after loss. It's just a different one." A decade of multiple traumatic events left Tonya Cunningham broken. In spite of her training as a grief counselor and doing all the right things, she fell into deep depression. The proverbial "lost her marbles" became reality in her life. But God led Tonya on a trek, a journey of healing. How could she ever rise from the ashes and regain the marbles of her mind? In her debut book, Tonya shares her story in hopes of helping others.

Southern Weird is not just a title--it is a way of life the ancestors brought over with them with new concepts learned and taught through the generations. Southern Weird is about people who look at life just a little differently and Gary R. Hoffman brings them front and center with this short story collection. In the Blue Bag Cult, a friend will hold your hand while you cry-- a best friend will help you bury the body. Nadine's beauty shop offers an entire wedding package including laundry, Angel's Place is a funeral home with innovative and unusual practices. A Day in the Life of a Non-Hostage brings the Southern Weird home by totally skewing the traditional hostage situation. This collection is funny, smart, and great entertainment.

"Natasha Tracy has written a book that straddles the chasm between self-help and memoir. Natasha's own experiences with bipolar disorder and depression illustrate what it is truly like to live with serious mental illness and offer real-world ways to live better with it. Natasha pulls no punches, doesn't sugarcoat and yet still offers real hope to the reader. This book will give those with mental illness and their loved ones "ah-hah" moments on every page."--

"Losing My Marbles is a series of true stories. These are events in my life wherein the heartache, terror and folly of my youth are transformed into comedy and tragedy, if you can call the heartbreak of youthful idealism tragedy The result has become an evening in the theatre where people can forget their troubles and laugh at mine."--Trader Faulkner

Culled chiefly from great literary works, this unusual compendium of prose and poetry excerpts highlights the physical and emotional aspects of aging. Although Booth ( The Rhetoric of Fiction ), age 71, includes such cheery banal verse as "I Haven't Lost My Marbles Yet" (Minnie Hodapp), he has tailored this collection to encompass the unpleasant truths about aging. William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" and excerpts from Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age offer realistic assessments of the perils and possible consolations of aging. The thoughtful commentary with which Booth connects the selections reminds readers that physical decay and fear of death are conditions common to us all. This provocative collection braces rather than comforts.

I Almost Lost My Marbles...Until I Didn't is a story of a mother and wife who walked through the open doors the universe provided and accepted the grace of all the angels who appeared before her, beating all the odds that came her way.

It was a time of honored traditions and tight-knit communities ... an era where neighborhood schools thrived, and children played simple games in the fresh outdoors. Finding Lost Marbles: Remembering the 50s in River City is a whimsical look back at what once was, before technological gadgetry wired our youth, and a reflective consideration of how we can reach back and resurrect some of the values that made the Fifties so fabulous.