Theodocia'S Heart Songs : Memoir With Selected Poetry

This book contains Theodocia's Memoir with selected poems at the end.In her life, the poetry came first. Writing poetry gave her a voice and now she shares her poems and memoir with you. Writing is a vehicle that has helped her express some of the emotions stuffed way down deep throughout the years. Writing is one of the greatest tools that she has discovered in her life skills toolbox, which helps her continue on her healing journey.This book describes the first twenty-three years of her life with vivid detail and uncompromising honesty.Theodocia McLean was born on Beals Island, in Downeast Maine, in 1954. Sold to the mailman, adopted twice, she wasn't told her beautiful name until her sixteenth birthday. Her love for writing began when her fifth-grade teacher captured her imagination with creative writing assignments while she was living away from home in a harsh, punitive private school environment. A song that she sings every day is the only link that she has to Clara, her one special friend, who made daily life bearable for a short time in that dreadful place. She longs for the day when someone, even a stranger, will show her the proof that she desperately needs on whether her friend really died that terrible day.Writing is therapy and telling her story takes her experience out of the shadows into the light. She hopes that her readers will muster up the courage to tell their story and thus begin their own healing journey.

• | Author: Theodocia McLean
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Sep 25, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1724037226
• | ISBN-13: 9781724037220