Moments of Knowing by Mary Helen Fein PAPERBACK 9781647428624

Mary Helen Fein

Born into the baby boomer generation, Mary Helen Feins values and choices often typified the time. At age five, she identified what she calls Moments of knowing moments of knowing more about love and creativity. As a child, her father was a loving successful New Yorkerwho left her mother to remarry another woman. Feins own mother was very beautiful, but desperately poor and an alcoholic, living in the projects on welfare. To get by, she remarried but the man was evil, a child molester and a cruel stepfather. Fein traveled back and forth from coast to coast, spending school years with her mother and stepfather, and summers with her father, loving grandmother, and new stepmother. At age thirteen her mother dies, and Fein embarked on a new life in an upperclass New York suburb. Over the next thirty years she journeys through careers and healing, embracing the sparkwhen it arrives over and over throughout her life, affecting her life choices and putting her on a spiritual path to Buddhism. With themes of spiritual practices, mental illness, poverty, and the power of psychotherapy, this book will appeal to selfhelp and memoir readers, showing how to find happiness, peace, and enduring love despite a traumatic childhood. | Mary Helen Fein Moments of Knowing Paperback Book