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Every Bone a Prayer


The the story of one tough-as-nails girl whose choices are few but whose fight ...
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Surviving and Thriving after Trauma

Created: 08/05/20

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Kate B

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Surviving and Thriving after Trauma

Ms. Blooms has created a wonderful theme built around our names – finding our selves, accepting our selves, and giving our selves permission to be ourselves. How did her choice of fantasy help you know Misty?

“The truth will come back to her that night and never fully leave again, but it will be a muddied truth, a blurred and bending truth that she more feels than remembers every time she shuts her eyes.
The summer and William and the barn and the names.
She’ll wish for those years of forgetting, wish for a time when she didn’t remember her body like this. But the memories will keep surfacing in dreams and in shudders.
. . . her body remembering over and over, stuck in a loop that she’ll have to find a way out of again.”

In A Word from the Author, before the book begins, Ms. Blooms tells us that she is a survivor of trauma and that she has PTSD. Ms. Blooms’ descriptions of the effects of trauma are crystal clear…as is her description of the path to survival, and the choice to thrive. She tells us what to expect of the book and that it’s okay to step back from the book when we need to. She wants us to be safe…as she is now…Ashley Blooms.
Ms. Blooms has created a wonderful theme built around our names – finding our selves, accepting our selves, and giving our selves permission to be ourselves. She describes the terror and helplessness that won’t leave the trauma victim for so long. She describes self-blame and the fear that one will be abandoned by anyone who knows the truth. She describes triggers that can bring horrible memories rushing back. And she describes what it is like to make the choice to live.
The book is magical, because Misty – and perhaps other, older members of her family – has special powers that let her communicate with and understand the objects and living things all around her. This gift seems to save her, but it also almost destroys her. In the end, she chooses to live and to know herself, to use her gift as a beautiful part of her life, not as a wall to keep fear away. She chooses to keep growing through whatever life hands her.


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