This is the inspiring memoir of a woman raised within the cultural confines of a Midwestern Catholic upbringing in the 1940s and '50s, and her life's journey as her consciousness awakens. Her path takes her through the expectations of the church, a painful marriage with an undiagnosed bipolar husband, and her food addiction. Desperately looking for guidance and answers to her innermost questions, she encounters a series of "gurus"-bringing her unexpected but valuable lessons that she integrates along the way. And at the age of sixty-three, she begins to reinvent herself-and a beautiful,...

Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and reports, this study provides the most comprehensive account to date of public health in Jamaica in the post-emancipation colonial period to the onset of the Second World War.

The themes of this memoir cover the autobiography of an African American woman's life born in the south during 1930's. It talks about issues of historical post slavery and focuses on transformational self-help and the healing of childhood wounds. This fascinating memior covers a significant period of American history and shows how one woman found victory through a life led by Spirit. As a recounting of the important turning points in this author's life and the lessons that she learned makes this book effective. Especially inspiring is her decision to leave home and move to New York City. This...