I have no idea where this book came from, but I remember reading it as an early teen. I still remember the profound impact it had on me.
I was maybe 13 when I read it. Transitioning from being a child into that sticky and confusing part of life we call adolescence. Not a child anymore and not yet an adult, but the challenge of being somewhere in between.
Yet even at this tender age I felt the world of responsibility on my shoulders. I felt lifetimes older than my peers and was awakening to see that my experiances where not the same as theirs. That what happened in my home Was different to what happened in theirs. The concept of what was normal shifting to shame that my normal was not the same and I didn't fit into either worlds.
I read this book not long after witnessing my mother attempt suicide. A traumatic transition of becoming aware that life could be taken away. Angry, hurt, resentful and so confused at the complexity of it all, my young mind blamed my self. I wasn't enough for my mother. She didn't love me enough and if that was case that meant there was something wrong with me. I wasn't lovable. There was something defective at my core that meant my own mother couldn't love me enough to want to live.
Caught In a nightmare of silence, shame and complexity that was beyond my capacity to ever understand at this tender innocent age, I remember reading this book.
I remember somewhere within my depths a feeling of being seen. I can't remember in its entirety what this book was about, but I remember it's impact on the way I saw the world.
As I walked past it this morning, sitting on the bench within the box of books I'm decluttering. I felt inspired to pick it up. I felt called to share it here and to bring it to you. And that I must read it to you.
There's no mistake that this has come through as my birthday approaches. It is not coincidence that this is what I'm being asked by my heart to do.
There is healing here that neither of us will understand until we experiance the possibility of stepping into it.
So as the first celebration of my Birthday Month over the next week I'll be recording the audio of me reading this book. My voice in the transmissions of my heart reading a book that deeply impacted the eyes I saw the world through.
Together Chasing Rainbows.
Will YOU journey with me?