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I Am My Own Dragon.: A metaphysical novel offering transformation and hope while engrossing, entertaining and enlightening

Linda Thompson
Tri Publications (2008)
ISBN 9780979368325
Reviewed byPatricia M. Berliner, Ph.D. for RebeccasReads (08/09)

Identified as “a metaphysical novel offering transformation and hope while engrossing, entertaining and enlightening” (blurb on back cover), this work is a masterpiece of fiction more real than most people’s realities.-and more painful and more redemptive.  Be prepared to be broken open and, hopefully, welcome this as an opportunity for healing.

Little Lucy, three years old, sitting on her brother’s friend’s lap-violated-hurting.  And they laughed.      Lucy’s father left when she was three.  It was her first, but not her last, experience of abandonment.  Her mother in that same time had a hysterectomy.  When she came home, the family moved.  Lucy, too, fled-into her imagination, her one place of safety.

For years Lucy sought refuge, love and validation in all the wrong places.  But, miraculously, although she sabotaged herself, she never totally lost her Self.

This is a hard book to read.  It touches deep places and pulls us into the wounded areas in our own lives, touching even those places we thought had long ago been healed.

It is not a pretty story.  Lucy writes a no holds barred, blood and guts confession of near tragedies and profound redemption.  Perhaps you, too, have experienced these times.

Lucy bumbled through life, learning mostly the hard way.  She was fortunate to find a compassionate psychotherapist who helped her to realize that, even in the darkest moments “ maybe there were other things, easy things I could do that would make a difference, moment by moment, make a difference, make life less painful-maybe (p. 97)”

And so she did.  And so we can.


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