My Story

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I was born and raised in a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana.  Culturally her heritage is French and Indian.  This combination has made her both a lover and fighter.  

 

Like many families, My parents were divorced when I was 8 years of age with a brother that was 4 years old at the time.  Childhood was a bit unstable.  We seemed to move constantly and I had tremendous responsibility as well as many emotional and traumatic events that would lead to my own process of healing.

 

The brief version of my story is that I experienced sexual abuse from a step-father for two years.  This changed my life and how I would deal with decisions and relationships over many years.  This was not revealed to my Mom until about five years after they divorced.  Over time, we worked through the challenges that surrounded our family because of this emotional and physical event.  

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My brother also experienced some abuse and this impacted me as well because I became his protector and it was as if I was his mother.  This dynamic later helped my brother in his recovery and ultimately his daughter as well.  

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I married when I was barely 20 to a man that had two children.  It was during this marriage that I went to counseling for the sexual abuse after a series of flashbacks started happening.  I discovered that I had become  co-dependent and learned about the guilt-shame cycle a lot of victims experience.  In counseling six months, I thought I was "finished with that."

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I ended up divorced and that triggered my desire to become whole emotionally.  Over many years, I went through much counseling and life experiences that caused me to heal completely.  Unlike the common belief of psychiatrists, physiologists and secular counselors, I have experienced FREEDOM that has come through facing the root cause of my pain.  I don't have nightmares, flashbacks, loneliness, addictive behaviors or any remnant of the emotional trauma of that time.

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My life now has been restored!!!  I am very happily married to a wonderful Christian man who has a Servant's heart.  We have a rich full life that is full or purpose and Destiny based in God's Kingdom plan for us.  We share the heart to see people set free in Christ.  God gave me my heart's desire when he sent John to me.

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As a result of the abuse, I had many female challenges and had a hysterectomy at age 28.  I have always wanted children and I have mothered many in the faith.  However, God also answered that desire as well.  My brother's daughter, Samantha was failing school and going through her own emotional event because of my brother's long-term drug addiction as a result of our childhood.  He battled this for 35 plus years and today is free from drugs, Hallelujah!  God is restoring him and the relationships in our family as well.

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Samantha's mother had died and she really did not know her.  My husband and I felt led to bring her to live with us.  We labored with her in many things.  The biggest victory was that she was willing to get counseling and she become a true Daughter to me whom I love dearly.  She overcame many challenges and graduated with honors from high school and is now in college!  Praise God!  He answered a longing in my heart and gave her a mother.

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A huge factor in my healing process was not only time in the Word of God and prayer but also the many different five-fold ministers and prophetic voices with specific words at the specific seasons of my life that took me from one level to the next in my emotional, physical and spiritual walk.  Because I was willing to work through the pain and press toward my healing, God used each one of them in a unique way bringing me to wholeness and freedom.  You each know who you are!  I am eternally grateful!

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As I look back, I am in awe of how God took that awful mess and all that pain, trauma and emotional roller coaster rides and turned it into a tool to help others achieve emotional healing and life more abundantly.

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I give Him all the Glory for the GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!!!!

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My favorite verse is Jeremiah 29:11 in the NIV.

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"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

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He brought me to this verse so many times when it seemed the darkest.  He is a GOOD GOD and it may not seem good when we are going through the experience but He has a way of working it ALL together for good!

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God bless!

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