Echoes From The Dark Clouds Kindle Edition

My Name is Colette Chagnon-Merrill. I am the author of this book. I also wrote the "My Knight, My Story, My Truth!" series, which was published under the pen name Lisa Pender. In those books, I told my truth carefully, from a distance. I used metaphors like a veil. I protected parts of myself behind characters and names that were not mine. At the time, it was what I needed to survive, to speak at all.But this book is different. This one belongs to me, and the five-year-old child within me. She has hidden the truth for seventy years. In those days, the truth wasn’t spoken aloud. It wasn’t even allowed to be whispered. That’s why so many children still carry family secrets. Because what is a small child supposed to do with the things that happened to them?When all they had were feelings, but no words. Feelings of low self-worth. Shame. Self-blame. The deep belief that they must have done something wrong. But now, she finally gets to tell her story.This is where I stop hiding. This is where I use my real name. These things happened to her when she was just a child.And for seven long decades, she screamed into the wind, and no one heard her. No one listened. Not even me. I couldn’t, because I couldn’t face one more trauma in my life. Not until her voice grew louder than my silence. Because I am the onewho carried those wounds into adulthood. I am the one who lived with the confusion, the shame, the guilt, the silence. And she, my inner child, deserves to be heard.Writing this book is deeply emotional for me, and when it is finally in print, I know it will be even more emotional to hold.But I am ready. She is ready. And together, we are speaking.You may find parts of this book hard to read, especially if there is a child within you still waiting to be heard. If so, let this be permission. Let this be proof that it is never too late to listen to that child. And let her begin to heal with you. Read more