Breaking the Curse is the seventh book in author Charlotte
Johnson's series of motivational text. This book explores the
complex relationships and dynamics involved in functional and
dysfunctional families. Once again, Dr. Johnson addresses the
problems within families by using real life examples. Dr. Johnson
deals with revealing family secrets and their impact. Readers of
Dr. Johnson s earlier books are familiar with her willingness to
tackle difficult subjects in an informative and entertaining
manner. Breaking the Curse has an increased level of poetic
expression and symbolism when compared with her other books. The
balance of family stories, poetry, and family pictures provide the
reader with a feeling of connectedness to the family, inspiration
and humor. Dr. Johnson uses her family experiences and those
experiences of others to illustrate the destructive nature of
family secrets. She reveals intimate and scandalous family secrets
in order to help others and prevent harm to others. Breaking the
Curse will shock and touch the hearts of many generations with its
intimate and extremely personal accounts of childhood experiences
reminiscent of Alice Walker's, The Color Purple, A Child Called It,
and A Bastard Out of North Carolina. Poems such as Scapegoat,
Sacrificial Lamb, Secrets Secrets, Green with Envy, It Happened to
Me, and Useless Excuses grab the reader and give insight into the
feelings of people as they perform in their roles within the
family. The poems give voice to the experiences of families. Each
chapter begins with a poem to foreshadow the story that is about to
be told. This book offers hope to those who have experienced pain,
disillusionments, heartaches, suffering, and abandonment. Revealing
secrets, dealing with the ramifications of the revelation, and the
consequences of actions helps to promote growth and healing.
Internal scars and wounds must be treated to prevent past hurts
from killing future hope and progress. Dr. Johnson exhorts each of
us to look inside of ourselves to ensure that we think not only of
the safety and progress of ourselves and our families but develop
empathy and courage to fight sin, evil, and injustice to help
others. Evil thrives when we repress our past or becomes apathetic
and ambivalent to the suffering of others and do not have
compassion for others who are in danger. Breaking the Curse
encourages good people to educate themselves, be informed, and be
willing to fight sin to ensure that Family Curses are broken and
that future generations can experience a life that is not bound by
past sins that have taken root, grown, and thrived in the roots of
their family tree. This book reminds us to show love, compassion,
and concern for others who suffer. Each of us will one day need to
be comforted. As a society, it has become easier to overlook
injustice for the sake of convenience. Breaking the Curse reminds
us that it is everyone s duty to be involved, to sacrifice in order
to help others and prevent future harm to the innocent. This book
is excellent for those who need encouragement, work with families,
have suffered from hurt, disappointment, abuse, neglect and
betrayal or who work with these populations. As the reader travels
through this novel with Dr. Johnson into dark tunnels and even
darker closets, hope is ever present as the journey gets closer to
the light at the end of the tunnel.
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