Publisher's Synopsis
Patricia Middleton knows better than anyone that the childhood rhyme, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is not true. In Words Will Never Hurt Me she opens up about her childhood memories of domestice violence and the flashes she still has of her mother being abused by her father. During those flashes, she is back in her bedroom and her parents are downstairs in the living room. She can hear the yelling and she trembles. She can hear the crying and she is afraid. And although she never actually saw her father hit her mother, the abusive words she heard for the first 18 years of her life still haunt her to this day. In the first half of this book, the author shares very painful childhood memories in poetic flashbacks. In the second half of the book she talks openly and honestly about how those painful flashbacks haunted her for much of her adult life and how she eventually discovered that although words can hurt, they can also bring deliverance, freedom, forgiveness and healing.
