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Wendy J Olson

Goodreads Author

Born

in Riverhead, The United States

Website

https://www.shesgotgumption.com/

Genre

Memoir, Psychology, Nonfiction

Member Since

June 2018

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Wendy J Olson is a healing coach, author, founder, and executive director of Grit Plus Gumption. Wendy believes in the power of story to change and shape people's lives. She walks with women through their stories of past hurts and traumas, and guides them to find their own freedom and healing. Through Grit plus Gumption she serves survivors of sexual exploitation and domestic violence. Having applied all she teaches to her own life as a survivor herself, she is able to guide women with kindness and grace, showing them there is always more freedom to be had in one’s life. She believes everyone has a story, and even if that story is really hard, it doesn't mean the rest of the story has to be.
Her new book, “Quelling the Tempest: Discovering t ...more

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My Why

I sat down at my desk, ready to write something that was going to be life-changing and somehow liberating. Words on paper have always been an escape for me. I used to write short stories as I didn’t think my life was interesting enough FOR a longer tale. But sitting at this desk, at this point in my life, was neither going to be liberating nor an escape. It was going to be painful. And I would ha