The Burden of Guilt

If there's one thing Barbara Minorgan knows how to do, it's survive. She's lived through a childhood of emotional and sexual abuse. She's beaten breast cancer twice. And in between those traumatic experiences she has endured more common life trials to survive, like the deterioration of her 40 year marriage.

But "The Burden of Guilt" is not a story about survival-it's a story about triumph, hope, incredible resilient, and what Minorgan has learned from her experiences.

When you suffer abuse, you get lost and become the victim. You cannot change the past, and you just can't let it define your being. Who you are gets buried, and lost as a means of survival. You carry the burden of guilt that you are evil. The shame you feel takes over your life as you justify that you caused it all to happen. You have to learn who you were always meant to be.

A victim no more, Minorgan writes to encourage other abuse survivors to see that what happened to them was not their fault, but was instead about the inadequacies of their abusers. Her personal memoir is a raw account of her painful and difficult journey told from her new perspective of hope and love.