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 Journey Girl is a story about motherhood and a memoir about secrets-- more specifically, it is about breaking them. Author Hajec unfolds her journey of becoming a courageous family secret breaker and defeats her fears that she will pay a price to do so. And in that process turns a feeling of fear and angst to heartwarming love and understanding.  252 pages. 

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 Journey Girl: Steps in Secrets and Sanctuary: Hajec, Susan Heffron: 9781982252922: Amazon.com: Books 

 "Birth is a beginning and death a destination...until looking backwards or ahead, we see that victory lies not at some high place along the way, but in having made the journey stage by stage." Rabbi Alvin Fine 

In my memoir, JOURNEY GIRL, I write about a path of love and trust that replaced fear and mystery in discovering the truth about my at-risk birth and my birth mother's death. I uncover and identify an essential wound that lived long into my life that was surrounded in secrecy and silence. I became a family secret breaker to bring my birth mother back into my family heritage and give her life, once again. 

I explore this in my memoir 

JOURNEY GIRL 

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SPRING 2022
JOURNEY GIRL REFLECTION 

  Chapter Eleven Reflection
 JOURNEY GIRL 

Bird Watching

She lays

Hidden for the most part
With her beating heart

Her feathered body spread

Wide in the nest, an act

Of full creation.

One mother bird, two eggs

Pulsing new life

Of wing-tipped grace

Into the world

And their own special place.

Procreation and expansion

As the fragile shell

Gives way

To life seeking life
The rhythm of life.

And the beat goes on

     goes on

          goes on. 

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"Time provides us with the opportunities for reflection, for gathering up the pieces of our lives, for weaving them together into a sacred whole." 

Jeanne Brooks Carritt 

In my writing of JOURNEY GIRL, I kept finding my story in the seeds of Silence.

 In my book, I give the reader a pleasurable pause from the story line by beginning each chapter on an "Island of Silence", offering suggestions for accessing nurturing silence, even in a busy, distracted way of life.

The power of undeniable family connection drives my story forward in the compelling storytelling of a mission of search for truth.

YES, TIME, and "time-outs"  in moments of silence, and then reflections set at the conclusion of each chapter weave the pieces of the Divine Appointment of my birth and my mother's death into the grace and understanding of 

the Miracle of me. 

 sue.hajec@gmail.com

"Walking  a Labyrinth  is a spiritual discipline that invites us to trust the path, to surrender to the many turns our lives take, and to walk through the fear, the confusion, the anger and the grief that we cannot  avoid experiencing as we live our earthly lives."  Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress

Unlike a maze, there are no blocks on the path into the center and nothing to solve on your journey.  When have you had an experience of feeling unblocked?

In the center of the labyrinth, you may pause and receive a gift of peace and quiet guidance.  What do you need guidance on at this time in your life? 

When you walk back out of the labyrinth, you bring this gift with you and share it in your daily life. What gifts of yourself are you sharing today?

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 "Don't Tell!" is a haunting ghost in many lives.