Topic: coping
One of the greatest blessings from the SNAP conference was meeting a new friend. A friend who will never see my face, though we have already conversed in person, face to face.
Lindy Morelli is an amazing woman, an amazing survivor, and already has a powerful passion to use her growing professional skills to help mend hearts and souls, in whatever way she can. Somehow, using skills I cannot imagine, she is working on her doctorate, as a counselor.
Lindy will soon have her story posted on the site she manages to direct http://lighthouserecovery.tripod.com/index.html Initially it's a story of rape by an Irish priest in Ireland). Yet that's not the important part of the story. It never is for those who have moved to higher ground.
The important part is that she has managed to find resource people and the energy to overcome--not just overcome the rape, with her faith still intact and growing, but also to compensate very well for being the child of a chronically mentally-ill mother who was unable to give her many of the skills she needed to overcome what others might consider to be tragedies.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Lindy has been blind from birth! I almost forgot.
