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Kathleen P. Perkins

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Pocatello, The United States

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Memoir, Spirituality

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Award winning author of Flight Instructions: A Journey Through Guilt to Forgiveness

I’m an eclectic kind of a gal, an older gal, sharp as Einstein, and clever as a cat. I have many years of hard lessons behind me and am more than willing to share them. Welcome to my Goodreads page! Watch for my blogs, coming soon.
After my mandatory stint in childhood, I took on the task of being a wife and mother, remaining in those roles for sixteen years.
In 1972, at a time when I was spiritually asleep, I left my husband and children to “find myself. “ I dubbed this period in my life “The Leaving Event.” My memoir, Flight Instructions: A Journey through Guilt to Forgiveness, is a must read so you can learn all the sordid details. The book won a finalist
Award winning author of Flight Instructions: A Journey Through Guilt to Forgiveness

I’m an eclectic kind of a gal, an older gal, sharp as Einstein, and clever as a cat. I have many years of hard lessons behind me and am more than willing to share them. Welcome to my Goodreads page! Watch for my blogs, coming soon.
After my mandatory stint in childhood, I took on the task of being a wife and mother, remaining in those roles for sixteen years.
In 1972, at a time when I was spiritually asleep, I left my husband and children to “find myself. “ I dubbed this period in my life “The Leaving Event.” My memoir, Flight Instructions: A Journey through Guilt to Forgiveness, is a must read so you can learn all the sordid details. The book won a finalist award from The Independent Spiritual Book Award in the category of Memoir/Spiritual Awakening.
You can follow my blogs which focus on excerpts from my book and what I learned on my journey to forgiveness.
On my journey I adopted a shadow persona called Denial. In the precarious company of Big D, I was actually able to accomplish some pretty amazing things.
After completing an undergraduate degree, I joined the Army and, using the G.I. Bill to further my education, obtained two master degrees, and a PhD. I side-stepped to London, England during the education phase of my life. I met Princess Di at a ribbon cutting ceremony at an Old Peoples’ Home in Kensington. She shook my hand, we made eye contact, she smiled.
I’ve been a therapist, a teacher, a writer, a lover, a long-distance mother, and a spiritual seeker. During my time in the Deep South, I became an active social and racial justice advocate joining the ranks of other anti-racists and, in the process of the work, making the tiniest chip in the iceberg of injustice. I carried my passion for racial justice back to Oregon and was awarded a Martin Luther King Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Shortly after that, desperate to find self-forgiveness, I “dropped out” to dive into writing my memoir.
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	Flight Instructions - A Journey through Guilt to Forgiveness 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faces of Social Policy: A Strengths Perspective by Kathleen P. Perkins (Goodreads Author), Carolyn J. Tice 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mental Health Issues and Aging: Building on the Strengths of Older Persons by Kathleen P. Perkins (Goodreads Author), Carolyn J. Tice, Kathleen Perkins 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Choice & Freedom

As a woman coming of age in the 70’s, I… I chose the road less traveled by. I bucked up against societal norms, and at age 33 left my husband of fourteen years and my three young children. And, that has made all the difference. Some would say I had a choice. Did I?

While my actions could be seen as brave and courageous for the times, the early years were tangled with the low-level vibrations of gui

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Nothing But Trouble (Kevin Kerney, #10)

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The Interpreter

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Kathleen Perkins said: " Suki Kim is an amazing writer. The Interpreter tells the story of a young Asian American woman trying to find crumbs from her dysfunctional childhood that would validate her existence. The protagonists journey was full of pain and sorrow, and hard fo ...more "

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Quotes by Kathleen P. Perkins (?)

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -- Dr. Seuss
Since writing my memoir, I'm beginning to realize what it means to be " ... Youer than You. I will be blogging about this soon.”
― Kathleen P. Perkins

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Kathleen’s Quotes

“Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority of the public. One that has been shaped to a great degree by the successful development of potent cures that followed the discovery of sulfa drugs. Aspiring caregivers today are chosen as much (or more) for their scientific abilities, their talent for mastering these manifold technological and pharmaceutical advances as for their interpersonal skills. A century ago most physicians were careful, conservative observers who provided comfort to patients and their families. Today they act: They prescribe, they treat, they cure. They routinely perform what were once considered miracles. The result, in the view of some, has been a shift in the profession from caregiver to technician. The powerful new drugs changed how care was given as well as who gave it.”
― Thomas Hager, The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

tags: caregivers, doctors, hospice, medicine

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Apr 08, 2015 11:05AM

The quote above, comes from Hager's book,about the discovery of sulfa drugs. I found it a great read, primarily because the sulfa drug saved my life. When I was 2 1/2 ears old, I scratched my ankle on a rusty screen door. The scratch became infected and I contracted a streptococcus infection, pneumonia, and septicemia (blood infection). I am so very grateful to know the history of the drug that saved my life!!

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