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“Raised by Wolves Trapped by Demons.”
This is an inspirational memoir about surviving abuse and addiction. It is about 60000 words and 57 chapters. The topics covered include child abuse, disassociated amnesia, addiction, domestic violence, mental illness, recovery and spiritual growth.
Human beings are meant to feel emotion. When that mechanism is short-circuited, first by emotionally neglectful parents and later continued by bad choices as an adult, it throws off the whole organism. Depression and anxiety are two of the most common causes of emotional numbness. Trauma and addiction were also on my personal hit parade. Many years of counseling, soul searching and gut-wrenching honesty have started to dissipate that numbness. I was able to break free from most of my demons. I no longer feel trapped. I now have many moments of happiness and a few glimpses of joy. Progress not perfection is my maxim. I wrote this book for the many marginalized women and women in abusive circumstances. My goal is to ignite the desire to live and grow, no matter the trauma.
I have self-published on Amazon and sold about 400 books since 2021.
I have also published abuse, addiction,Raised by Wolves: Trapped by DemonsVella essays on that platform.
My penname is Mimi Tallo
Buy it on Amazon.com or Call her @ 561-676-4017
Today I set an intention to know spiritual freedom through my awareness of oneness with When I claim this truth, nothing can take my freedom from me. Nothing can bind me to any thought of limitation. I remember I am made in the image and likeness of God. My experience of life is what I choose to make it. What joy, what freedom I have as a child of God!
all that is. As I rejoice in this feeling, I discover I can be in the world but not of it.
I am always free to choose my responses. The world’s affairs are but a reminder to pray, affirming that Spirit is in and through all things. The truth of my existence is spiritual. Although I am fully human with a body, mind, thoughts, and feelings, I am also fully divine.
“Raised by Wolves Trapped by Demons.”
This is an inspirational memoir about surviving abuse and addiction. It is about 60000 words and 57 chapters. The topics covered include child abuse, disassociated amnesia, addiction, domestic violence, mental illness, recovery and spiritual growth.
Human beings are meant to feel emotion. When that mechanism is short-circuited, first by emotionally neglectful parents and later continued by bad choices as an adult, it throws off the whole organism. Depression and anxiety are two of the most common causes of emotional numbness. Trauma and addiction were also on my personal hit parade. Many years of counseling, soul searching and gut-wrenching honesty have started to dissipate that numbness. I was able to break free from most of my demons. I no longer feel trapped. I now have many moments of happiness and a few glimpses of joy. Progress not perfection is my maxim. I wrote this book for the many marginalized women and women in abusive circumstances. My goal is to ignite the desire to live and grow, no matter the trauma.
I have self-published on Amazon and sold about 400 books since 2021.
I have also published abuse, addiction,Raised by Wolves: Trapped by DemonsVella essays on that platform.
My penname is Mimi Tallo
Buy it on Amazon.com or Call her @ 561-676-4017
Today I set an intention to know spiritual freedom through my awareness of oneness with When I claim this truth, nothing can take my freedom from me. Nothing can bind me to any thought of limitation. I remember I am made in the image and likeness of God. My experience of life is what I choose to make it. What joy, what freedom I have as a child of God!
all that is. As I rejoice in this feeling, I discover I can be in the world but not of it.
I am always free to choose my responses. The world’s affairs are but a reminder to pray, affirming that Spirit is in and through all things. The truth of my existence is spiritual. Although I am fully human with a body, mind, thoughts, and feelings, I am also fully divine.
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Patrick H Scanlin was born on September 15, 1832, in Ireland, one of six children. In 1847, his father packed up his family and left Ireland for the United States. It was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. The period was contemporaneously known in Irish as an Drochshaol, loosely translated as "the hard times" (or literally "the bad life"). During the Great Hunger, about 1 million people died and more than a million fled the country.
The cause of the famine was a potato blight which infected potato crops. The famine changed the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, producing an estimated 2 million refugees and spurring a century-long population decline.
The vast majority of those that had arrived previously had been Protestants or Presbyterians and had quickly assimilated. English was their first language, and most had skills and perhaps some small savings on which to start to build a new life. Very soon they had become independent and prosperous.
Unfortunately, Patrick's family was Catholic and spoke Irish Gaelic. Since he was unskilled, uneducated and only knew a few words of English, he would have to accept any menial job. Patrick was 15 years old. He soon took a job working in the coal mines. His job was simple to open and close the wooden doors (trap doors) that allowed fresh air to flow through the mine. He would take a canary in with him. Canaries are especially sensitive to methane and carbon monoxide, which made them ideal for detecting any dangerous gas build-ups. As long as the bird kept singing, the miners knew their air supply was safe. A dead canary signaled an immediate evacuation. The other miners called him the canary boy.
Patrick would usually sit in total darkness for up to twelve hours at a time, waiting to let the coal tub through the door. The caged canary at his side. It was not hard work, but it was boring and could be very dangerous. He was earning $0.50-$0.60 a day.
The Scanlin family had a coffee can that was hidden in a different place every day by Mrs. Scanlin. Everyone was expected to contribute most of their wages. Some was used for rent and food but also a bit to save for a better life. In 1857, they had saved enough to buy a small patch of land in Delmar Township, Tioga County PA. The county was named for the Tioga River, itself named for the Lenape word for "forks of the stream".
There he was able to help the family with the small farm they had leased. They had chickens and pigs and of course potato crops. They would sell eggs and pork products at the Farmers Market every Saturday. An immense improvement in the family's quality of life.
There were not many places to meet women in those days. Relationships usually started at Church or a local Tavern. The Sun Inn established in 1758 by the Moravians and known for its food was one such place. The inn's tavern offered a menu with elk sausage and salmon with wild rice. On Saturday night, they would have music and dancing. That is where Patrick met Ellen Johnson.
Ellen was only 20, ten years younger than Patrick. they started talking and he just fell in love with her immediately. She was unabashedly honest and forthcoming about her life. She didn’t seem ashamed about anything, including being in a bar unescorted. That night she had an escort home.
Every minute after that, when not working, he would be with Ellen.
Ellen A Johnson was born on May 20, 1843, in Delmar, Pennsylvania. She married Patrick H Scanlin in 1861 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. They had one child during their marriage.
Patrick was a staunch Republican and devout Catholic. At the time of his death, Mr. Scanlin was one of the most prominent and substantial citizens of Delmar and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was a member of the Catholic church and had a host of friends. His funeral was overseen by Father John O'Toole of St. Peter's Catholic Church of Wellsboro.
She died on March 9, 1913, in her hometown at the age of 69, and was buried in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.