Reach for Joy eBook Teresa L Greenway
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“Some part of me wanted to reclaim my lost self, but I was still afraid of Jason and what he might do. It was as if two people inside of me fought against each other—the one who wanted to be free and the one who was desperately afraid.” Having ten children, suffering nerve damage from the cold, and sleeping under a truck along the highway wasn’t what Tessy imagined her life would be like when she married Jason. Spanning three decades, this heart-wrenching memoir follows Tessy’s struggle to comply with her controlling husband’s desire to live like pioneers from a bygone era. As his carefully constructed fantasy continues its downward spiral, she is forced to face her fears and make a life-altering decision. Caution This book includes scenes of rape, death, and emotional abuse.
Reach for Joy eBook Teresa L Greenway
This book is both heart wrenching and heart-warming. That someone could survive such cruel hardships and still remain a loving, giving, and caring person causes me to examine my own life and my complaints against such minor hardships in comparison. Five stars is easily deserved. I'd give six if I could.I read a pre published version of the book. I've known Tessy all my life. We went to grammar school together and she married my brother. Tessy is honest and truthful to a fault. As harsh as her life has been, nothing in her book is fabricated or exaggerated. In truth she left a lot out. It was cathartic and healing writing this book, but in speaking with her, I think it would have been emotionally overwhelming to add all the dark details. As it stands, the book brings the reader on an emotional rollercoaster that ends in a cheer of triumph. Its purpose, and the author's hope is to inspire persons in abusive relationships to recognize the abuse and gain the courage and tools to free themselves.
This book is different from many other books in that it enlightens the reader to the fact that most abuse is well hidden from prying eyes. Most abuse does not come with broken bones and bruises. Most occurs within lonely, isolated, and deeply broken hearts. There are so many tears unseen by family and friends.
I mentioned above that there is much that wasn't written. For those of you that are enduring this type of abuse, you know what it is. In these circumstances, when the abused reaches for the strength to cry out for help, in the eyes of loved ones they become the violator and the abuser becomes the victim. They are slandered…You're a liar, you're mentally unstable. Where are the bruises and broken bones? Those loved ones that could have alleviated this living hell now stand in judgement with their torches and pitchforks.
This book points to a path away from such suffering. This author's warm and forgiving heart is an inspiration to all whose lives are touched by her.
p.s. The names of people and places have been changed to avoid being sued by her ex-husband.
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Reach for Joy eBook Teresa L Greenway Reviews
If I did not know the author from the facebook group Perfect Sourdough I would have thought this was a novel. I found it disturbing that a human being can be so unkind to another.
I did not want to stop reading it. I can't imagine how hard life would have been for the author especially with all the pregnancies and children, without the support and love of a partner.
A great read and I recommend it for anyone so they can be aware of what abuse can mean.
There is a similar situation within my own family, thankfully she has 'escaped' too, though still linked to him unfortunately.
You are a beautiful person and I wish you the best in life with your family close by and their love and support.
I found this book difficult to read in same ways but then I couldn't put it down. I found reading about this woman who was caught in a marriage that became difficult to escape from due to the control and rules put on her by her husband but also the tie of continually being pregnant and having children. The commitment to her brood and her marriage vows was admirable in a lot of ways considering the suffering she went through. The conditions she had to live in (terrible) and the brainwashing of her mind by her husband kept this poor woman powerless to change her circumstances. It is unbelievable how someone can have so much power over another. 30 years and 10 children later she makes her escape when it becomes obvious that now her actual life is in danger. For anyone who has had experience living with a narcissist it is an insight as to how they control, manipulate and have so much power.
This was the first book that I've read cover to cover in one sitting in a very long time!
There are a few books that I have put on my daughter's "Dad requires me to read these list." This book is currently at the top of the pile for my tween daughter.
The story is a beautiful retelling of a 30ish year span of time from the author's life. The book starts with her young adult years and progresses through a thirty year marriage and ultimately her escape from what had pretty clearly become and intolerable situation for her spirit.
The Author's Note promises, "If you are reading this story hoping to find a monster who chains victims to the wall and beats them, you are reading the wrong story." This is not another "poor me" book. Nor is it a story with cardboard characters. The author paints depth behind her characters through a mother's eye, a wife's eye and a woman's eye.
The author grabbed my attention in the first few pages and didn't let me go until the book was over. She walked me through a journey from meeting her husband as a young man, raising a large family and ultimately freeing herself from a controlling and abusive situation that had been in the making since the beginning.
I enjoyed that the author's voice is conversational and her demeanor contemplative and retrospective. I felt as if she were personally telling me her story. More than once I thought, wow, I'm not brave enough to write and publish the personal details of my life, I wonder how this person developed the spine to do this. And as the book progressed and developed, I saw how T. L. Reys grew from a person that does what many of us do into a person that is able to do what few of us do. She grew from doing what others desired or demanded into a master of her own fate and the captain her own soul (to borrow from William Ernest Henley).
The story touched me deeply. In fact, I think the honesty and relative objectiveness from the author were compelling factors for me to simply turn the next page over and over again. On one page, she would describe some interaction with her husband that her "inner woman" would clearly feel was abusive, her "Catholic wife self" would rationalize and her "mom self" would try to shield from her children. And then in another few paragraphs, something else would occur and the author's "mom self" would chime in that her husband was as far as he was capable of being, a careing loving father. As it turned out her husband was just another human. I feel that the author derived a lot of credibility by recounting her husband and antagonist as a complex and human character.
So as we watch the author grow, so do we see her husband grow. And we see how there relationship changes and ultimately deteriorates.
So this brings me back to my own life and why the book was so powerful for me. I have been aquatinted with a number of people over the years who come from large families or seemingly chose to live in relationships that seem to be derived from a pre-victorian mindset. Often these relationships seem built upon manly men being, well, manly and women being perpetually barefoot and pregnant. I have often been assured by both the men and women in these relationships that "this is the way God means for things to be," or some variant of that. Both parties seem to have willingly entered into these relationships. The children spout the same dogmatic diatribe the parents publicly espouse. But I have always wondered how a human being could possibly be happy in this sort of arrangement. It seems counter to what I have learned of psychology or even physiology. But my friends are happy to point out that soft science is all just a tool for liberalism or the devil to help us all go to Hell that much faster...
This book, was a clear wake up call for me that perhaps not all people are happy in these sort of "honor and obey" contracts. That, at least in some of these relationships, abuse and control are in play more than love and mutual respect.
Some years ago, my mother passed away and I had to clean out her house. My family has always held up the matriarchal and patriarchal family members as saints. As I waded through the documents in countless boxes (for my grandparents were a product of the Great Depression and NEVER threw anything away), I found innumerable letters that were vitriolic, acrimonious or otherwise recounted deeds or feelings that were less than christian and saintly. But these letters spanning a century were very human.
For me, finding out some of my family's hushed secrets of abuse and adultery made me really understand and even love more deeply my antecedents. In the end, they were not stone faced saints, but they were just human as everyone else I know.
Reach for Joy is the telling of these same sort of "family secrets" but for a different family. I wish my mom had been so moved to share with me the events that truly transpired in my family over the last few generations as I think it would have helped me be a better person.
I plan to use Reach of Joy to help my own daughter understand how to avoid abusive situations and how to assert her own boundaries. And most importantly to understand that ultimately she determines where her boundaries are drawn and to not let other people or religions draw her boundaries.
So as reviews go, I suppose this is a bit rambling. But I'll leave with these thoughts. The book is well written. It's conversational tone reads quickly. The story is enthralling simply as a story. When the book is done, your own brain and soul will not have put the story down. You will constantly be asking yourself some very deep questions about yourself, those around you and the relationships that touch your life.
This is a remarkable work. I congratulate and applaud the author for her skills, courage and tenacity. Truly well done!
This book is both heart wrenching and heart-warming. That someone could survive such cruel hardships and still remain a loving, giving, and caring person causes me to examine my own life and my complaints against such minor hardships in comparison. Five stars is easily deserved. I'd give six if I could.
I read a pre published version of the book. I've known Tessy all my life. We went to grammar school together and she married my brother. Tessy is honest and truthful to a fault. As harsh as her life has been, nothing in her book is fabricated or exaggerated. In truth she left a lot out. It was cathartic and healing writing this book, but in speaking with her, I think it would have been emotionally overwhelming to add all the dark details. As it stands, the book brings the reader on an emotional rollercoaster that ends in a cheer of triumph. Its purpose, and the author's hope is to inspire persons in abusive relationships to recognize the abuse and gain the courage and tools to free themselves.
This book is different from many other books in that it enlightens the reader to the fact that most abuse is well hidden from prying eyes. Most abuse does not come with broken bones and bruises. Most occurs within lonely, isolated, and deeply broken hearts. There are so many tears unseen by family and friends.
I mentioned above that there is much that wasn't written. For those of you that are enduring this type of abuse, you know what it is. In these circumstances, when the abused reaches for the strength to cry out for help, in the eyes of loved ones they become the violator and the abuser becomes the victim. They are slandered…You're a liar, you're mentally unstable. Where are the bruises and broken bones? Those loved ones that could have alleviated this living hell now stand in judgement with their torches and pitchforks.
This book points to a path away from such suffering. This author's warm and forgiving heart is an inspiration to all whose lives are touched by her.
p.s. The names of people and places have been changed to avoid being sued by her ex-husband.
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