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Walking with Aletheia
a survivor’s memoir
by Jean Hargadon Wehner
“This book is a victory over cruel and sadistic abuse. Where her abusers tried to implant hate, Jean restored love and compassion. She psychologically and spiritually saved the wounded children within herself and then wrote a book to rescue other survivors and their inner children.” — Ellen Lacter, PhD, clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, and author of A Coloring Book of Healing Images for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
“An astonishingly vivid “survival document” by a courageous writer who spent several decades healing from numerous rapes by Catholic priests and cops at a Catholic girl’s high school in Baltimore. This shocking memoir is a “must read” for all those who are determined to stop the sexual abuse of children.” — Tom Nugent, author of Death at Buffalo Creek, and a reporter on the Emmy-nominated docuseries The Keepers
“Since I wrote my brief book review for Walking with Aletheia I have begun to watch The Keepers and I am glad I read Jean’s book first. The Keepers was beautifully filmed and composed. However, it is about injury of the most severe kind, and Jean’s book is about healing. My understanding is that we need to focus on healing as she did, and even though the injury may be severe and violent, through the connection with the deep imagination we can help to focus the power that it contains in the direction of healing, growing, and maturing, and that is what the world needs right now. A seed grows in two directions: up into the sunshine and down into the earth. And it uses what it encounters and incorporates into its growth and eventually into its blossoming. This is what I saw Jean doing as I read her book.” —Eligio Stephen Gallegos, PhD, psychologist, author of Into Wholeness: The Path of Deep Imagery
Jean Hargadon Wehner, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, is an advocate for sexual abuse survivors, their families and the people who work with them. Jean has experience working, educating, and communicating with diverse populations, including faith groups, student groups, and professional associations. She is also a contributor to the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series The Keepers. In addition to her advocacy work, Jean, originally trained as a Spiritual Director, is now a Nationally Certified Reflexologist, Certified Life Coach and Reiki Practitioner.
Her website is walkingwithaletheia.com and she can be reached at: PO Box 4835 Hampden MD 21211.