Martha Ashwell worked as a childcare officer, administrator and support tutor in university education and a counselor. She is also a member of the long-established writer's group, Manchester Irish Writers.
Her memoir, Celia's Secret: A Journey towards Reconciliation, helped her to analyze and evaluate her life experiences to work through a process of reconciliation. Broken relationships.
Her story shares the impact family secrets can have on your life.
Are you struggling with the dynamics of a family secret or with broken relationships?
Martha's memoir is full of memorable quotes but the one that sums up the book is Voltaire's, "Love trust and pardon error."
Deborah Carroll, a former educator and educational publisher has written a book on a subject that is not easy for families to discuss. The subject is the death of aging parents. Her book, Tales from the Family Crypt: When Aging Parents Die, Sibling Rivalry Lives is a must read!
There is nothing that can tear families apart faster or uglier than estate issues.
In many families, there are difficult, dysfunctional and even despicable siblings who want to grab money and power at a time when they should be communicating and pulling together as a unit.
