by Deidre Beacham | Aug 24, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
Why was this experience debilitating for you? I was already quite withdrawn from being separated from my family during third grade. By the time I was molested at the age of 12, I had become increasingly withdrawn, confused and scared. (The person that attacked me was...
by Deidre Beacham | Aug 19, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
What is the trauma that you have overcome? Wow. So here we go… I was under the distinct impression that my parents didn’t want me. I was hospitalized in first grade for two weeks for pneumonia. In third grade, my family was building a house on a 15 acre lot and...
by Deidre Beacham | Aug 17, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
As a child, did you have a dream about the future? As a child, you were probably asked this question by a wide variety of people. Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, teachers, clerks at the grocery store…perfect strangers felt the liberty to ask you what you wanted to...
by Deidre Beacham | Aug 13, 2010 | Courageous Conversations, Get Your Butt in Gear!
Sabotage Say it a few times out loud…it doesn’t even sound like an English word. And yet, if you’re reading this blog, sabotage is something you’re probably all too familiar with in your own life. So, how do I know? Because if you’ve...
by Deidre Beacham | Aug 12, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined
Why are you choosing to participate in this book? Honestly, it never would have happened but for any number of people along the way. I’ve always wanted to write a book, but if you had told me that this would be my first one, I would have told you that you were...
by Deidre Beacham | Aug 10, 2010 | Book: I Am Bound and Determined, Power Book Reviews
So, here we go. I began a book project in January of 2009. Originally, it was going to be a story of lessons learned from my life experiences. While I thought it would be powerful (no, really, it would)…I thought to myself, “This would be so much more...
