Take a closer look at the chapters inside “Understanding Betrayal.” Each one shares a powerful part of Marie’s journey, offering honest stories, lessons, and moments of hope for anyone healing from pain, betrayal, or trauma.
Hearing so much recently about living life in balance, sayings such as “first seek to understand, then to be understood,” mindfulness, yoga, herbal remedies, etc., I am now…
Diane was running down the highway, terrified, tears streaming down her smooth cheeks. She was oblivious to the heavy morning rush-hour traffic and completely unaware of her bare feet sloshing…
Living in this part of Ontario, surrounded by freshwater lakes, nearly everyone is an outdoors person. Camping, fishing, boating, and water activities make up a large part of our leisure time…
Wayne wasn’t always a bad brother. In fact, when I was in kindergarten, my step-uncle pushed me down in the snow, soaking my books and making me cry. Wayne ran over…
I never aspired to be a feminist. I wanted to be a Christian, and that should have sufficed. In university, you were expected to align yourself with an “ism” as part…
There was one amazing friend who had endured everything with me throughout my adult life—Cindy. We had become friends the way so many women do—through our…
Upon our return from the other town, Dawn had to enter high school. In our little town, grade 7 and 8 students were integrated into the high school system. Dawn had excelled…
One quiet fall evening, after the girls were tucked into bed and Dave had gone uptown for something, I stood alone in the kitchen, fixing myself a cup of tea. It…
The following morning, Rae stayed home from school. She had slept in our bed the night before, exhausted from crying. Once she was settled, I began making the necessary calls…
The father’s sentencing included mandatory participation in a so-called treatment program for pedophiles, an unfortunate misnomer since no reliable treatment exists for pedophilia…
Initially, I became a child protection officer to avenge what had happened to my father in his early years. It was one of the most grueling jobs imaginable. I took far…
