Pain Power Purpose: A Story of Trauma-Informed Healing focuses on the far-reaching effects
of early childhood (developmental) trauma and child abuse, including the latest research
about how a child's developing brain is affected by trauma. Larkin uses her own painful
childhood experiences to shed light upon how adult behaviors and choices are often
linked to unresolved childhood trauma and recounts how she "took the power back from
pain."
"An inspiring and powerful book that provides helpful resources for those
who have experienced trauma to proceed with their own healing and self-care."
- Jinny Tesik, MA, C.C., Grief & Life Transitions Counseling
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of early childhood (developmental) trauma and child abuse, including the latest research
about how a child's developing brain is affected by trauma. Larkin uses her own painful
childhood experiences to shed light upon how adult behaviors and choices are often
linked to unresolved childhood trauma and recounts how she "took the power back from
pain."
"An inspiring and powerful book that provides helpful resources for those
who have experienced trauma to proceed with their own healing and self-care."
- Jinny Tesik, MA, C.C., Grief & Life Transitions Counseling
Available on Amazon.com
In Grief Country, a widow sets out on a quest to become her own "grief expert" after her
husband's death. Poems and essays that trace Larkin's personal journey through loss are
interspersed with an overview of the major (and often conflicting) grief theories that have
been proposed since Sigmund Freud first introduced the idea of "grief work" a century ago.
"By weaving in expert opinions...the author gives a more nuanced picture of the
bereavement process than is conveyed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's now-discredited five
stages...Throughout the book she uses the effective metaphor of grief as a country...
a personal, relatable study of grief." - Kirkus Reviews
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husband's death. Poems and essays that trace Larkin's personal journey through loss are
interspersed with an overview of the major (and often conflicting) grief theories that have
been proposed since Sigmund Freud first introduced the idea of "grief work" a century ago.
"By weaving in expert opinions...the author gives a more nuanced picture of the
bereavement process than is conveyed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's now-discredited five
stages...Throughout the book she uses the effective metaphor of grief as a country...
a personal, relatable study of grief." - Kirkus Reviews
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In Displaced: A Memoir, Stephanie Larkin weaves the story of her friendship with a
community of refugees into her own compelling personal narrative.
Two years into a mid-life marriage, Larkin begins a new chapter of her life in Boise, Idaho, where she helps recently arrived refugees adapt to their new lives in America. Her happy, peaceful life is disrupted by unexpected events, however, and eventually Larkin must face
her own challenges. Displaced is a story of family, friendship, and, most of all, love.
"A weighty, captivating look at a caregiver who deals with death, mental illness, and the struggles of refugees in America... the author manages to perfectly capture both the joys and the immense psychological toll of constantly helping others, becoming an inspiring survivor herself in the process." - Kirkus Reviews
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community of refugees into her own compelling personal narrative.
Two years into a mid-life marriage, Larkin begins a new chapter of her life in Boise, Idaho, where she helps recently arrived refugees adapt to their new lives in America. Her happy, peaceful life is disrupted by unexpected events, however, and eventually Larkin must face
her own challenges. Displaced is a story of family, friendship, and, most of all, love.
"A weighty, captivating look at a caregiver who deals with death, mental illness, and the struggles of refugees in America... the author manages to perfectly capture both the joys and the immense psychological toll of constantly helping others, becoming an inspiring survivor herself in the process." - Kirkus Reviews
Available on Amazon.com
"Resettled" provides a glimpse into the refugee resettlement process through the eyes
of a volunteer who befriends a community of recently arrived refugees from Africa.
(Note: Many of the stories in this book are excerpted from "Displaced: A Memoir.")
"This is the true story." - Dadiri Nuro, Somali Bantu Community Advocate
"This should be required reading for anyone involved in the refugee issues of the present
time." - Amazon Reader Review
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"Introduction to Chizigula" is an English-Chizigula phrasebook for an endangered African
Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Somalia, and Kenya. In 2003 several thousand
Chizigula speakers came to the United States as part of the larger resettlement of
approximately twelve thousand refugees known as the Somali Bantu.
Stephanie Larkin met her co-author, Chizigula native speaker Dadiri Nuro, in 2005,
when she befriended a community of Somali Bantu refugees (see "Resettled"). This book
codifies basic words, phrases, and situational dialogues with the goal of helping the
Chizigula speakers in the U.S. expand upon their English language skills, while also
helping to preserve the ancestral language of these new U.S. citizens.