A shining testimonial to grace

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	• The Cracked Pot: Finding Grace in the Cracks of Childhood Abuse Jim Cyr Aventine Press, 2007 - 124 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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An incredible story

Jim has written a compelling and incredibly transparent account of what can only be described as a miracle. The story of his life is riveting - but most importantly, it is encouraging. Buy this book - read it and recommend it to your friends and family.

A shining testimonial to grace

Few people have gone through what Jim Cyr did as a child. The fact that he survived, and has created a successful life for himself, is a testimoy to grace. This book is shocking in mnay ways, but Jim is as graphic about the way to his healing as he is about the horrors he experienced. The stories he shares, and how they helped him heal, are especially fresh. Searing in its honesty, without a hint of self-pity ... I applaud Jim for his courage in sharing his story. I hope it points to the path of wholeness for many.

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A Wonderful Story

I know Jim personaly and wanted to tell everyone what a kind and compassionate man he is. To know now what he has been through, and to know him as I do just shows what Gods Grace can do for anyone of us, whether a sufferer of childhood abuse or not. Read this book, it will truly amaze you, and to know that their is help and a light at the end of the tunnel.

For all too many people, childhood was not an idyllic time -- it was a time of facing unimaginable fears, resulting from horrific abuse. But as Jim Cyr's story courageously reveals, the wounds of childhood not only heal, they can lead to the loving grace of wisdom, and a heartfelt desire to help others achieve wholeness, too. Now a minister and storyteller, Jim suffered with five congenital birth defects that required many painful and humiliating surgeries, from his childhood through his teen years. At the same time, he was sexually and ritually abused as a young boy. And, as an adult, was diagnosed and treated for Dissociative Identity Disorder. To cope with familial abuse, Jim split into fifteen different personalities. "Sprouting" protectively, these separate identities filled the cracks caused by numbing, long-term violation, and helped him to survive. Despite it all, Jim Cyr's memoir is filled with hope: candidly sharing all stages of his healing journey (from self-destructive, unconscious drives, to awareness, to the slow mending of his cracked heart and mind), it offers inspiration, as well as the hard-won advice of a survivor. Jim's will to live, and his honesty -- despite a crushing childhood -- offer a shining path of light for all those who suffered a childhood of abuse, and wonder how they will ever manage to feel whole.

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