Michelle A. Moorer - Mentor for Victims of Abuse

Presentations

“Are You a Flower or Plant?”
An insightful and informative, non-gender keynote based on nurturing your “plant”. You’ll gain an understanding that you must feed, nourish and maintain the right “seeds” in order to grow your plant properly. With this proper growth will come to a profound divination of self-fulfillment.

Literature

NEW! Nurture Your Soul

"The first two chapters were great! It was a wonderful read. I can not wait until the book is out!" - Vera

Fulfill your life's purpose and blossom into the person you were destined to become...

Nurture Your Soul is a heart-felt understanding of God's mercy and grace. It offers guidance and provides tools on how to navigate the twists and turns of life and the path you've chosen to follow. At times it is difficult and challenging to distinguish one's life purpose and with that comes a feeling of hopelessness. If you are at the point in your life where you are experiencing feelings of despair and frustration, this book was written especially for you.

The inspirational words within Nurture Your Soul will uplift your mind, feed your soul and help plant seeds of forgiveness, love and prosperity.

Shh... Don't Tell - A Memoir

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distributors of Michelle's
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Local Book Stores

Azizi Books
134 Lincoln Mall Dr.
Matteson, IL 60443
708-283-9850

Books a Million
144 S. Clark
Chicago, IL 60603
312-857-0613

Books Ink
1835 W. 103rd
Chicago, Illinois
773-330-4115

Da Book Joint
9527 S. Jeffrey
Chicago, IL 60617
773-978-3555

Qumby's Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave
Chicago, IL 60622,
773-342-0910

UVA Bookstore
400 Emmet St. S.
PO Box 400820,
Charlottesville, VA 22904

Online Distributors
Trafford.com
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Amazon.com
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Target.com
Waldenbooks.com
Waterstones.com
WHSmith.co.uk

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Shh…don't tell - these words, spoken by her father, mark the beginning of a cycle of abuse that darkens the author's childhood and teen years.

The men in Michelle's life were supposed to love, guide and protect her. Instead, her father, Jacob, a heroin user and alcoholic, begins molesting her when she is just a small child. Once he has gone, her mother's alcoholic and verbally abusive boyfriend, Brent, finds out about Jacob's mistreatment of Michelle and begins abusing her as well.

To add to the hurt, family members ridicule and demoralize Michelle and her siblings as they grow up-punishing them because of their mother's past. Most devastating of all is betrayal by the one person whose love should have been unconditional: Michelle's mother knows that both her husband and boyfriend have abused her daughter, yet she ignores the situation.

The abuses go on for years, making Michelle feel embarrassed and ashamed of herself, as if it were her fault. She loses her self-esteem, becomes depressed, and even has thoughts of suicide. Like many girls who have suffered from abuse, she also has sex at a young age.

While Michelle struggles to overcome adversity and to rebuild her self-esteem, one of her biggest fears comes true. Just as her family had taunted her, she now finds herself in the same situation her mother once faced: She is pregnant at sixteen, and still in high school. The child's father, who is Michelle's first love, walks away.

Will she be able to raise her baby without the support of the father? Will she manage to graduate high school? Or will she become the failure her family has predicted? These are the questions that remain at the end of this, the first of four memoirs. But Michelle has already started to find the inner strength she will need to turn her life around, and her message to readers is clear: Always believe in yourself! Never give up!

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