Download or read book Minefields in Our Memory written by Janet Qually and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minefields in Our Memory offers an opportunity for readers to gain a healing perspective regarding traumatic experiences. This accomplishment involves embarking upon a journey that is not taken alone. Whatever a personal situation happens to be, whatever pain and grief is present, readers can be comforted by the Lord's promise that he will not leave his children as orphans. The book is a recovery tool providing illustrations, poetics, prose pieces, quotations and scriptural references. It is an interactive, thought-provoking and spiritually uplifting source for hurting people trying to reach a more satisfying place in life. Janet Qually earned a degree in Christian Ministry and a Masters in Guidance and Counseling. She has conducted seminars in Life Skills and Anger Management. Her writing is influenced by her previous work in prison ministry, as well as by assisting the men and women she recruited in shelters for a funded program designed to help participants seek and obtain jobs. She enjoys illustrating her writing with digital art. Janet's experience includes: Full time prison ministry in St. Louis, Missouri; Managing a program assisting homeless men and women in Joplin, Missouri; Weekend Manager at the Ronald McDonald House in Joplin, Missouri; A Family Resource Specialist at Head Start in Joplin, Missouri; Hospice volunteer in St. Louis, Missouri; Volunteering for six weeks at a distribution center following the 2011 Joplin tornado; Public speaking opportunities in radio and other forums; and A radio reader for the blind at WYPL, FM 89.3, Memphis, Tennessee. Her poetry has been published in a number of print and online journals, including American Tanka, Atlas Poetica, Bamboo Hut, Bright Stars, Cattails, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Hedgerow, Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, Moonbathing, Red Lights, Ribbons and Skylark.