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Our Guest tonight is
JODEE PROUSE
ABOUT JODEE
By Jodee Prouse
One Woman’s Wisdom on Rising in Strength from Family Crisis
Learning Through the Tears Hard Truths About Taking Care of Oneself First—
And the power to finally say “no”
Whether it’s Addiction, Abuse, Divorce or any other Family Trauma, a Woman at the Center
Can Step Out of the Insanity – With Love
Jodee Prouse—The Embattled Woman’s Champion
How
many times have you lost yourself in some chronic family crisis, giving
and giving until there is no more left to give—and yet you give more.
Out of love, out of duty, out of knowing that everyone looks to you?
Whether
that awful situation is a result of a horribly dysfunctional family,
chronic drug or alcohol addiction, sexual or verbal abuse, living with
the mentally ill, raising a disabled or autistic child, the pain of a
disintegrating marriage and divorce, the responsibility that comes with
parental healthcare decline, a jailed or arrested partner or some other
trauma?
As women, we have often learned from childhood
that we are the ones that must be the peacemakers, the problem-solvers,
the fixers—the ones to make concessions. And we sometimes do this with
dire consequences, losing our selves, sometimes our partners and our
children -- and even our souls.
Jodee Prouse knows this
from experience. Her painfully honest book The Sun Is Gone about trying
to halt the alcoholic decline of her beloved brother, amidst a lifetime
of family crisis and dysfunction, is both a cautionary tale and beacon
of hope for women to find the strength to make painful, but personally
healthy choices.
Her story begins as a child where she
becomes her sweet little brother’s protector as her alcohol-fueled
father rages in the night. The grand-daughter, step-daughter,
daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, niece, great-niece, aunt, cousin and
ultimately sister to alcoholics, she becomes the one pillar of strength
in her immediate household as her neglectful and emotionally-withholding
mother moves on to a new partner and divorce again and continues to put
the family responsibilities onto her daughter’s shoulders. Eventually
starting her own family with a loving husband and two children, and
beginning a business, Jodee remains her brother, Brett’s best friend and
safe harbor.
But as his drinking becomes apparent, grows
worse and more self-destructive, Jodee is drawn into a maelstrom of
pain, co-dependence, and battle of wills with her other family members.
Her deep love for her brother propels her forward to make choices and
sacrifices that are disempowering for herself, Brett and others.
Yet,
finally, despite excruciating emotional pain, she comes to realize that
she must put herself and her husband and children first—and set
boundaries—that she cannot fix someone else’s life. For anyone dealing
with an addictive family member, this experience will especially
resonate.
But today, Jodee Prouse asserts that the need
for women to take back the control over their own lives –and disengage
from the maelstrom within a family crisis -- to no longer be an enabler
-- is universal.
Now a full time speaker and advocate
living in Alberta CAN and Oroville, WA, after successfully building and
selling her highly regarded beauty company, Jodee is also urging
families to stop hiding in shame from “family secrets”—to deal with
hidden emotions by sharing, speaking out and getting help, to lance
wounds that lead to pain, addiction, rage, regrets and family crisis.
Says
Jodee: “I know what it is like to feel powerless to something that
takes control over your life. It is not easy to break patterns of all we
have ever known, even when our choices hurt us or hurt the ones we
love. I know that sometimes these behaviors are etched deep inside...But
when we lose ourselves in someone else’s addiction or issue, we are no
good to anyone; not ourselves and certainly not the one’s we love. In
the end, we are not culpable for someone else’s path. Just our own.”
And that’s the deepest form of love and understanding. Through her book and message, Jodee inspires people to:
LEARN. ACCEPT. FORGIVE. HEAL.
Title: The Sun is Gone
Author: Jodee Prouse
Pages: 269
Publisher: Hope & Humility Inc (March 20, 2017)
Publication Date: March 20, 2017
ASIN: B06XYTR1KK
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