STOLEN HALO

About the Book

STOLEN HALO is a moving and engrossing memoir—about childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse; about rejection and abandonment—that provides a perspective that only a person who was that child can know. STOLEN HALO is a true testament to the importance and the process of facing one’s past head-on, resurrecting that past, owning and respecting it, putting it into written words—and then sharing one’s own story with the universe in the hope that those words will somehow help others make sense of their own lives just as writing them made sense to the author. For Trish Dinsmoor, in STOLEN HALO, it isn’t just a matter of honesty—it is a matter of responsibility—to get her message of hope out to all the victims of abuse. STOLEN HALO—and its poignant message of hope and survival—is Trish Dinsmoor’s attempt to set herself and other victims free.

About the Author

TRISH DINSMOOR has turned her own personal struggles—her history of abuse, abandonment and survival—into a profoundly engrossing and moving memoir. Her wish is that her message of hope will inspire victims of abuse to believe that a beautiful life really is possible. Trish lives in Uncasville, Connecticut with her husband Nick and their poodle Princeton. SUSAN L. McELANEY is married, the mother of three adult children and the grandmother of five. A retired Registered Nurse, she worked both in oncology for years and then in the Mental Health Department at a women’s prison. Both areas have provided her with compassion and a vast experience dealing with victimization. Susan lives in Norwichtown, Connecticut with her husband Jim their cat Royboy.