Winner of a Gold Medal from the Nonfiction Author's Association! A Gold Medal winner from Mom's Choice Awards! Also a Pinnacle Achievement Award winner for Poetry! Winner of two Gold Medals from Royal Dragonfly Book Awards for Poetry and Religion/Spiritual and a Finalist in the Book Excellence Awards! More recently a winner of a Gold Medal from the Human Relations Indie Book Awards for Motivational Indie Poetry Book and a Silver Medal also from The Human Relations Indie Book Awards for Personal Challenge Indie Poetry Book. Last but not least, a 5 star review medal winner from Reader's Favorite and a Gold Medal winner from Reader's Favorite for Poetry! In this rare collection of nonfiction Christian poetry and prose based on real life experiences, Diamante Lavendar, a victim of abuse, shows the reader the raw emotions of pain, hate, and denial that occur before a victim of abuse can find a way to heal from the pains of assault. Knowing herself the very difficult journey of being a victim, Diamante was abused as a child, and turned to alcohol and drugs to numb the pain. Many years later, she started to heal under God's watchful eyes and was able to find love in her life again. She shares these truly inspiring, religious poems in the hopes that it may help other victims heal their hurts, as she did while writing the poetry collection.

Poetry and Ponderings: A Journey of Abuse and Healing Through Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Lavendar, Diamante

Poetry

Written Dreams Publishing

Finding Hope In The Darkness Of Grief is a winner of a Pinnacle Achievement Award for Spirituality. It is also the recipient of a Silver Medal from Mom's Choice Awards! A recent recipient of a Gold Medal for Gift Book/Coffee Table Book from Dragonfly Book Awards and received Honorable Mention for Poetry and Religion/Spirituality from Dragonfly Book Awards! Also a Gold Medal winner for Religious/Spiritual Book and a Silver Medal winner for Inspirational Book from Feathered Quill Book Awards! Also a recipient of a Bronze Medal for Inspirational/Spiritual Book from ELit Book Awards! More recently a recipient of five Gold Medals, 1 Silver Medal and Director's Choice Grief Awareness Book Of The Year from Human Relations Indie Book Awards and also placed as Finalist in the Book Excellence Awards! This earthly plane offers much for us to learn: happiness, wisdom, loss, heartbreak, and enlightenment. It is a Pandora's box of emotions, situations, opportunities, and failures, all wrapped into a package we call life. Nobody is immune, but everyone has the opportunity to grow tall or wither like a flower in harsh light. It's completely up to us how we choose to respond. Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief is a gleaning of insights from artist Diamante Lavender. For her, life has been a long, difficult road, but it has taught many poignant lessons. Her poetry collection is an exploration of the human soul, a traversing of situations that life throws at us. Diamante has always been intrigued by the ability to overcome and move on to bigger and better things. She writes to encourage hope and possibility in those who read her stories. If she can help others heal, as she has, then Diamante's work as an author and artist will have been well spent. She believes that everyone should try to leave a positive mark on the world, to make it a better place for all. Writing is the way that she is attempting to leave her mark--one story at a time.

Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose

Balboa Press

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Poetry and Ponderings: A Journey of Abuse and Healing Through Poetry

Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose