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This Child of Mine: A Therapist's Journey
Martha Wakenshaw
Three-year-old Marrisa's mother couldn't read the instructions on a can of formula. On only sugar water, Marrisa's teeth rotted.Five-year-old Jackson witnessed his mother's attempted murder.
Four-year-old Raymond was beaten by his father.
Most people turn away. Martha Wakenshaw holds these children close to heal them.
In This Child of Mine : A Therapist's Journey, Martha Wakenshaw shares her fifteen years as a child therapist, working to salvage these tiny lives. In a deeply personal account, she takes us into her life, and her struggles with parents inadequately equipped or supported, a system only driven by righteousness, and insurance companies that give her ten sessions to "fix" a child.
I have specialized in treating childhood trauma, and in so doing have taken on an awesome task — the task of opening to these children and not taking on their pain to the extent that it disables me. I have not always been successful.But each child is a miracle in the making.
I have literally been brought to my knees in the face of unimaginable suffering, and miraculous resiliency. This Child of Mine is about the displaced child in us all. Join Martha in bearing witness to these children and their struggles for wholeness, and in her own search, for it is the struggle of us all.
ForeWordIn her writing, Martha Wakenshaw reveals Sacred Woman. Her work flows with an inner purity and emotional wisdom. To read This Child of Mine is to fall in love. It is to know the pain and joy of loving the best of womanhood, children, healing, and life, which you only know by knowing their worst.
[Wakenshaw's] narrative lifts what could be a litany of grief into a buoyant song of hope. To the grim cases she brings energy, understanding, and poetic grace. This is not just clinical work, it is social commentary raised to the level of literature.
Publishers Weekly
No one will remain unmoved by psychotherapist Martha Wakenshaw's This Child of Mine.
Jonathan Kozol, Author, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, Ordinary Resurrections:
A beautiful book: sensitive and luminous.
Rev. Kevin Austin, Shoreline Free Methodist Church, WA:
Wakenshaw is prophetic. Prophets tell the truth in creative, startling ways. Their task is to wake people up from secure jobs, average marriages and safe institutions, and force us to reality, demand we stop believing in lies.
This Child of Mine calls us to Truth. It demands that we think, forces us to move beyond entertainment and existence, to life. For some, Truth is too hard to bear. This Child of Mine is powerful art.
Are you ready for truth in its naked beauty and pain? Are you ready for real life, as experienced by these children and this courageous woman?
Would you like to see through Martha's eyes, just for a moment?
About Martha Wakenshaw