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Ever Faithful to His Lead: My Journey Away from Emotional Abuse
Kathleen Pooler
Nothing can rescue her until she decides to rescue herself.
Kathy loses touch with the faith she was brought up with as she attempts to find her way in the world, leaving her stable roots for adventure and romance. Despite a spiritual prophecy, self-defeating detours take her through a series of heartbreaking events.
When her second husband Dan's verbal abuse escalates, Kathy finally realizes she must escape before she and her children become a statistic.
How does a young woman from a stable, loving family make so many wise choices when it comes to career, but so many poor choices when it comes to love? Her life and the lives of her two children hinge on her choices and the answers she finds.
Join Kathleen Pooler on her roller-coaster ride of self-discovery, from shame and guilt to inner strength, in her tears-to-triumph story.
Rating: 8.1 out of 10
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Retail Price: $16
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ISBN: 978-0-9859367-9-2
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Publication Date: July 28, 2014
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242 pages – 6 x 9 in. trade paperback
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Available through:
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Amazon
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About the Author
Kathleen Pooler is an author and a retired Family Nurse Practitioner who began writing at the age of eight when she crafted plays to act out in front of her maternal grandmother, Nan, and her Italian lady friends. She believes writing her memoirs about how the power of hope through her faith in God helped her transcend two abusive marriages, divorce, single parenting, a substance-addicted son, cancer, and heart failure to find a life of peace and joy. She hopes to increase awareness about domestic abuse and reach women who are searching for their inner strength to find freedom from abuse. Her forty-four year nursing background as well as her own personal experiences of getting into and out of two emotionally abusive marriages lend credibility to her messages of the hope, resilience and courage it takes to claim and honor one’s own voice.
Her two memoirs, Ever Faithful to His Lead: My Journey Away From Emotional Abuse and its sequel, Hope Matters: A Memoir of Faith (work-in-progress) both have a Christian theme about the extraordinary events that have occurred in her ordinary life through her faith in God. She explores how her loving Catholic family and her solid nursing career could not rescue her from her own self-defeating behaviors until she decided to rescue herself. Kathleen also has stories in two anthologies, The Woman I’ve Become: 37 Women Share Their Journeys From Toxic Relationships to Self Empowerment (Pat LaPointe, 2012) and My Gutsy Story: True Stories of Love, Courage and Adventure From Around the World (Sonia Marsh, 2013).
She is living a good life now with her husband Wayne. They have a blended family of six adult children, ten grandsons, ages six through twenty-six, and a rambunctious Golden Retriever, Max. They live at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in eastern New York State on the 135-acre land that used to be Wayne’s grandfather’s dairy farm where Wayne grows organic vegetables. When she is not writing, she loves to play the piano, read, and play with her grandsons.
She blogs weekly at Memoir Writer’s Journey and can be reached via email at krpooler63@gmail.com.
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