tracye carter

I have been impacted by this story in more ways than one. If you can see past the dysfunctional family and look beyond the spiritual manipulations, brainwashing, physicalities and downright abuse, if your mind will allow you a vision apart from the fog, you may experience empathy or at least the possibility of understanding that parts of her story may be familiar to your own life in some regard. She spent half her life restrained from the world. Then, once she entered the world for herself, she was strapped into the harness that held her into the battle of her life. No wonder it drove her mind into conflict. The daily struggle to find one's self- one's voice against all the chaos she grew up in was all she knew up to that point. Yes, she went back again and again as abused people do until something more powerful gives way. Thank God she found her way..Her ticket out was education. Her story is a testimate of establishing your own life, shaking off the old person, and coming into your new self despite family or whatever the vice holding you back. It's not easily done. We all can relate in some way or another.