Against Such Things
By Rachel K. Baldwin
Genre: Memoir, Substance Abuse Recovery
Synopsis
If you are born into ineffable darkness, could you even comprehend the light?
Take one-part volatile home life, two-parts haphazard nomadic existence, zero-parts social connection, and shake well. Our protagonist's only constant is unpredictability: that, and the charismatic, fundamentalist hammerings from the pulpit.
But when a sheltered child goes nuclear? Just pray you are FAR from the exclusion zone.
Can a toxic cocktail of compounded trauma, spiritual warfare, and an unfettered nosedive into addiction be overcome? Join Rachel on her passage through the underworld as she searches for the means to reassemble her splintered psyche while wrestling Against Such Things.
By Rachel K. Baldwin
Genre: Memoir, Substance Abuse Recovery
Synopsis
If you are born into ineffable darkness, could you even comprehend the light?
Take one-part volatile home life, two-parts haphazard nomadic existence, zero-parts social connection, and shake well. Our protagonist's only constant is unpredictability: that, and the charismatic, fundamentalist hammerings from the pulpit.
But when a sheltered child goes nuclear? Just pray you are FAR from the exclusion zone.
Can a toxic cocktail of compounded trauma, spiritual warfare, and an unfettered nosedive into addiction be overcome? Join Rachel on her passage through the underworld as she searches for the means to reassemble her splintered psyche while wrestling Against Such Things.
Review
There are a lot of experiences we will only ever be able to chip away our understanding to because we read or hear it from someone who experienced it firsthand. That is how I felt as I red Rachel K. Baldwin's Memoir Against Such Things. I'll start off repeating what Baldwin does in her first section - beware of the triggers. This book should be read by everyone - but only if you are in a mentally- and emotionally-ready place to absorb all that you are about to hear. The triggers are for abuse and addiction.
Baldwin takes us on a journey throughout Against Such Things that involve pivotal moments in her life. Each representing a fraction of what has led her to become who she is - our experiences, after all, shapes who we become. In the case of this memoir, it is separated into sections that helps the reader go along for the ride in the birth and growth of a person - in all meanings of the words.
Against Such Things was a gripping, page-turning of a read that managed to break my heart, but still left me feeling hopeful. And grateful. Grateful for my own experiences. Grateful to where life has led me. This is truly an inspirational story of heartache, trauma, and recovery.
Baldwin takes us on a journey throughout Against Such Things that involve pivotal moments in her life. Each representing a fraction of what has led her to become who she is - our experiences, after all, shapes who we become. In the case of this memoir, it is separated into sections that helps the reader go along for the ride in the birth and growth of a person - in all meanings of the words.
Against Such Things was a gripping, page-turning of a read that managed to break my heart, but still left me feeling hopeful. And grateful. Grateful for my own experiences. Grateful to where life has led me. This is truly an inspirational story of heartache, trauma, and recovery.
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