Beyond Surviving: Take Back Your Life Using the Power of Choice - Hardcover

Connell, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 163812759X ISBN 13: 9781638127598

Publisher: Pen Culture Solutions, 2023

Synopsis

Beyond Surviving is the memoir of a California native daughter. Born in the South

Bay of Los Angeles at the end of WWII, and raised in the Mojave Desert, I

returned to Los Angeles to study at my mother's alma mater, UCLA during the

early 1960's, a period of hope, change and a challenge to the status quo. Ready to

jump out of school and into life, I got a job at a bank in Beverly Hills and met the

man of my dreams, tall, good looking, intelligent, fun and very charismatic. After 4

years of dating, I finally married him, not realizing that my life would change in

ways I never imagined. After 20 years together, my life had turned into a series of

desertions and I decided to take my son and leave him. He turned on the charm and

begged for a second chance. Believing the marriage vows I took, I stayed to work

things out. That's when it all descended into Hell!

About this title

About the Author

Karen is a domestic violence survivor who became an activist in 1982 to share herstory as Community Educator and helped lobby for the first Domestic ViolenceLaw. She then was invited to be on the CA Attorney General's Task Force to workwith other law enforcement offices, D.A.s and judges, to write a curriculum fortraining Police and Sheriff's on responding to a domestic violence call. She thentrained L.A.P.D. Next, she was recruited to create and implement a victimadvocate program in the L.A. City Attorney's office.Now an author, she has written a book about her experiences, life lessons learned, and resources.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pen Culture Solutions
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163812759X
• ISBN 13: 9781638127598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144