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Paperback Edition
- 978-1-03-832052-0
- 6.0 x 9.0 inches
- Black & White interior
- 432 pages
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Hardcover Edition
- 978-1-03-832053-7
- 6.0 x 9.0 inches
- Black & White interior
- 432 pages
- Keywords
- Sexual abuse,
- Domestic violence,
- Autobiography,
- Complex PTSD,
- Healing,
- Therapy,
- Living authentically
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The Girl Who Flew Over the Honeysuckle Hedge
Her Lifelong Journey of Coping and Healing with C-PTSD
by
J. Lauren Sangster
“I am brave in ways I no longer thought possible as my resilient part continues to move me forward… I know true triumph of the human spirit.” At five-years-old, young Janet raised out of her body and flew over a honeysuckle hedge. It was this dreamlike experience offering her mind momentary respite from the dysfunction and abuse surrounding her that began her difficult life journey toward healing. In this riveting memoir, J. Lauren Sangster tells her personal story of surviving childhood sexual abuse, family dysfunction and violence. Trying to escape her past with a new identity as Lauren in New York, she discovers love and heartbreak with a man of Hungarian nobility and his whirlwind high society life in Newport, Rhode Island, then endures abuse and torture while held captive by a philatelist deep in the French Alps. Amid the darkness, and still haunted by childhood trauma, Lauren manages to survive and finds support with a circle of trusted friends back in New York… and even finds love again. J. Lauren Sangster’s memoir is a testament to remarkable resilience during her journey to cope and heal with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Complex PTSD). Writing with humility, compassion, and a sense of humor, she provides an unfiltered examination of how her traumatized mind works while finding joy in friends, love, music, silly riddles, a pet dachshund, and learning to live authentically as she discovers new ways to heal more deeply, thus offering the reader hope that they, too, may triumph over trauma.
“J. Lauren Sangster’s courageous book offers a gift of healing... It’s a testament to a truism that if we have the dedication to open all our ‘broken parts’ to love, healing is possible." —Bonnie Paul, Ph.D
J. Lauren Sangster was born and raised in Kentucky and has also lived in Tennessee, New York, and Maine. She began writing to help process her trauma and has won national and state awards for her work, including the 2018 Richard F. Snow Nonfiction Award for her story, “I Love You, I Miss You Already”, about her husband's struggle with a terminal illness. As part of her healing, Lauren embraces the opportunity to practice compassionate understanding working as a volunteer for the Freedom to Choose Project in California, which provides a self-help program geared toward incarcerated women and men. Today, Lauren lives with her partner John and cat Sookie. For more about Lauren and her experiences, go to flyingoverthehedge.com.
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