Three Marriages

A long time ago, I set out to tell my story and make a book. The result was Three Marriages: lies I’ve lived by and it was published July 2014.

The story begins with my experience of being widowed at 23 on the Canadian prairie, leading to the opportunity to attend college where I met and married a man who took me the United Arab Emirates to begin a new life. However, it didn't turn out the way I expected. I divorced my second husband in an Abu Dhabi Sharia court when the Emirati man who would become my third husband rescued me -- I'd been falsely accused and was at risk of being jailed. I fled that third marriage ten years later. Three Marriages was my investigation into what had been lived through me. The story ended with a question: Was it true love?

Between 2017 - 2024, when I freed myself from the relationship that began as balm, but quickly turned irritant, six years after my Arabian escape, I wrote Rise High Walk Low: A woman’s journey from marrying for love to marrying her Self to answer that question. It was an arduous journey. I think of it now as my Seven Year Persephone Period during which time I set out to write a sequel but it turned into a prequel when I wrote a third book. It seemed I had a trilogy until the two books became one! (The writing journey is a mysterious endeavour.)

Rise High Walk Low is now being sent out to literary agents.

My autoethnographic journey has produced two memoirs on a mission to bring the science of selfhood into mainstream awareness through the art of storytelling. I have investigated my lived experience to tell story that is relevant for any woman seeking to understand the relational dynamics in her psyche. For the primal ground upon which all women stand is giving us a great task today — we must find the way to redeem feminine wisdom from within.

I’m currently working on a novel: Telling Tales in the Garden.

“There is, in truth, no such thing as a collective progress that does not spring from individual growth.” (Helen M. Luke)

 

This is storytelling to investigate and heal through experiential encounter by reckoning with what's been made in order to resurrect and recreate what is possible.

For in the end, life is just a story.