Resilient
By KimDianne Rogers
This book is effectively an autobiography of KimDianes
life. A life that begins in a family
where her father placed expectations on her that she struggled to step up
to. While she did her reward was to be
seen. Seen as herself, not necessarily
in the identity her parents measure he for.
She started breaking out with a teen student exchange trip to
Chilie. The friendships she garnered
there further lit the spark to be seen as herself. Then this was tamped down when she went to university
and became entrenched in the rules of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Her and her first husband were devout Mormons where
her identity was snuffed out by conformity to rules. In
this suffocating environment she slipped into an affair that led to
divorce. The affair and resulting divorce
left her with a second husband and again her true self was stymied. Later in life in mid forties she once again
is set free in divorce only to find a third husband. And he too came with problems in terms of
money management leading to her make life choices out of circumstance and not
fully of her choice. This folly of husbands
found herself at 53 finally single and free to be herself. She spends the last forty pages of the book
circling back on all the lessons learned from living at the effect of others
and finally charting her own course.
This course finds her happy and seen.
It seems the men of her life stole her identity. And now she is her own woman.
