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David Giffen

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in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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https://authenticgingermedia.com

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Memoir, Psychology, Biography

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January 2013

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David Giffen is a Scottish-Canadian author, storyteller and commentator whose work explores trauma, faith, fatherhood, accountability, institutional failure, recovery and the complicated work of finding your way home.

He is the author of Redemptive Trauma: Confession of a Defrocked Priest, a deeply personal account of ministry, addiction, abuse, failure and the possibility of redemption. The book debuted as a #1 bestseller in multiple Amazon categories, including Religious Psychology, Abuse & Addiction Recovery, and Religious Biographies.

Born in Glasgow and raised in Canada, David spent much of his adult life working alongside people navigating poverty, homelessness, mental illness, addiction, the criminal justice system and other places whe ...more

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I Don’t Know What This Means Yet

I have a dangerous habit.

Give me something painful enough and, eventually, I will turn it into a story.

I will find the beginning. I will identify the moment everything changed. I will work out who failed whom, what I should have known, what I know now, and somewhere near the end I will find a sentence that makes the whole bloody thing mean something.

I have been doing it for most of my life.

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