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Dancing Softly
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A story of hope and overcoming.
A story about the resilience of the human spirit and the touch of a gentle God.
Sixteen-year-old Jamie DeSouza runs away from home to escape from years of sexual and emotional abuse. Living on the streets of Toronto, she survives the only way she knows how – by becoming tough, hard, angry...a fighter. When her freedom is taken away, Jamie finds herself locked in a psychiatric ward where she struggles to maintain hope.
Caught in the mental health system, Jamie is stripped of her dignity and even basic human rights. It’s in that dark place she learns to fight back in ways that ultimately free her. The people Jamie meets along the way teach her that dancing softly in life is far more powerful than the use of violence.
“A powerful story of hope and courage that shows us nothing is impossible to overcome….” Melvina Walter, Executive Director of The Halton Women's Centre
“Dancing Softly is an insight into the hearts and minds of people who struggle with mental illness. I couldn’t put it down.” Sasha Stevenson
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Dancin...
A story of hope and overcoming.
A story about the resilience of the human spirit and the touch of a gentle God.
Sixteen-year-old Jamie DeSouza runs away from home to escape from years of sexual and emotional abuse. Living on the streets of Toronto, she survives the only way she knows how – by becoming tough, hard, angry...a fighter. When her freedom is taken away, Jamie finds herself locked in a psychiatric ward where she struggles to maintain hope.
Caught in the mental health system, Jamie is stripped of her dignity and even basic human rights. It’s in that dark place she learns to fight back in ways that ultimately free her. The people Jamie meets along the way teach her that dancing softly in life is far more powerful than the use of violence.
“A powerful story of hope and courage that shows us nothing is impossible to overcome….” Melvina Walter, Executive Director of The Halton Women's Centre
“Dancing Softly is an insight into the hearts and minds of people who struggle with mental illness. I couldn’t put it down.” Sasha Stevenson
215 pages, Unknown Binding
First published November 13, 2012
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About the author
Nikki Rosen
4 books19 followersWrites non-fiction and fiction. Her inspirational biography, In the Eye of Deception, a true story of one woman's struggle to overcome the effects of child abuse, rape and addictions was released Dec. 2009. It won The Word Guild Award and received an Honourable Mention of The Grace Irwin Award.
Her book, Dancing Softly, released Nov. 2012 shortlisted for The Word Guild Award April 2012
For more details and to read the introduction and reviews go to www.write2empower.webs.com
Her book, Dancing Softly, released Nov. 2012 shortlisted for The Word Guild Award April 2012
For more details and to read the introduction and reviews go to www.write2empower.webs.com
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May 15, 2013
A powerful story of hope and overcoming. A story about the resilience of the human spirit and the touch of a gentle God. Shortlisted for The Word Guild Award April 2013.
September 7, 2013
Nikki Rosen
November 13,2012
Published in Canada
Nikki Rosen profiles the plight of a young woman caught in the Metal Health System’s policy of containment.
Jamie is a child who was born into a nightmare of a family. When at the age of seven years,her mother committed suicide, she was left alone to a predatory father and brother. The father, an alcoholic, was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive. The older brother sexually abused her from the age of seven to her 16th year.This vicious home life created a lost lonely child unable to interact with the outside world except through avoidance or an anger so destructive it threatened her life and others.
A run away at sixteen she spent two year on the streets of Toronto before being picked up after an episodic breakdown and taken to a Mental Institution. While in the Institution she became more self controlled and began recognizing the injustice and mal-treatment of the inmates. Through a budding faith in a loving God she grew in ability to form relationships and to relate to the inmates with a rare compassionate viewpoint.
After discharge she successfully launched new beginnings by attending college. The combative spirit that assured her own survival led her to fight for others caught in the mental health system; which in turn led to more compassionate policy changes in the country’s mental health laws.
The book is a message of hope for all who have passed, or are passing, through the fires of unbearable sufferings. It is also a book that illuminates,for the larger society, the necessity to treat the mentally ill with understanding and compassion.
November 13,2012
Published in Canada
Nikki Rosen profiles the plight of a young woman caught in the Metal Health System’s policy of containment.
Jamie is a child who was born into a nightmare of a family. When at the age of seven years,her mother committed suicide, she was left alone to a predatory father and brother. The father, an alcoholic, was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive. The older brother sexually abused her from the age of seven to her 16th year.This vicious home life created a lost lonely child unable to interact with the outside world except through avoidance or an anger so destructive it threatened her life and others.
A run away at sixteen she spent two year on the streets of Toronto before being picked up after an episodic breakdown and taken to a Mental Institution. While in the Institution she became more self controlled and began recognizing the injustice and mal-treatment of the inmates. Through a budding faith in a loving God she grew in ability to form relationships and to relate to the inmates with a rare compassionate viewpoint.
After discharge she successfully launched new beginnings by attending college. The combative spirit that assured her own survival led her to fight for others caught in the mental health system; which in turn led to more compassionate policy changes in the country’s mental health laws.
The book is a message of hope for all who have passed, or are passing, through the fires of unbearable sufferings. It is also a book that illuminates,for the larger society, the necessity to treat the mentally ill with understanding and compassion.
September 9, 2013
Dancing Softly
This book is an amazing book where I couldn't stop reading it. Nikki gets you going from the start and wanting you to read more. This book is a definitely worth the read as you will learn more about the main character Jamie, and how much of a fighter she becomes. Twist and turns, but as always there is hope at the end of the tunnel! The book just touched me a lot, and so I absolutely recommend this book!
This book is an amazing book where I couldn't stop reading it. Nikki gets you going from the start and wanting you to read more. This book is a definitely worth the read as you will learn more about the main character Jamie, and how much of a fighter she becomes. Twist and turns, but as always there is hope at the end of the tunnel! The book just touched me a lot, and so I absolutely recommend this book!
August 5, 2013
Dancing Softly is an incredible read. Loved it! Highly recommend this book! :)
August 5, 2013
Intense, Fast moving, and loved it!
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