Healing
Branches from the Same Tree
Faith, healing, and the courage to overcome when struggles threaten to break families and crush the spirit. A powerful story of resilience, family bonds, and divine restoration.
Faith, healing, and the courage to overcome when struggles threaten to break families and crush the spirit. A powerful story of resilience, family bonds, and divine restoration.
Gritty urban realities can break apart families and crush spirits. But with faith and determination, there is a way out.
This chronicle of a struggling family depicts spiritual growth as the attainment of compassion and understanding and the courage to heal psychological scars. It's about healing brokenness—healing devastation of people stuck in places they think they can't heal from.
Being a mother is hard, but being a mother, grandmother, sister or aunt in the depths of urban realities can feel impossible. Daily struggles seem unbearable and finding a better life is non-existent. These are the stories of thousands that crush spirits and break apart families. This may even be your story.
Branches From the Same Tree Whether Broken or Reaching, is for you. From this valuable reading you will learn just how sacred your role is. You will find the self-awareness and courage needed to take on daily battles. You will learn to recognize the pains you feel and embrace them to find joy. We are all over-comers. This book dives into the gentle depths of your soul to develop the wholeness and happiness we all deserve.
Healing is a sacred space. It needs to be treated with gentleness, respect, and quiet. It comes from the Divine.
Discovering the sacred strength within to overcome life's battles and embrace healing as a divine journey.
Honoring the deep roots that connect us, even when branches are broken, and finding love in every relationship.
Learning to embrace pain, find joy in the process, and develop the wholeness and happiness we all deserve.
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Branches From The Same Tree: Whether Broken or Reaching by Marlo Ettien is breathtaking; literally. As I read every page, I found myself holding my breath. This is the story of a young girl moving into adulthood, but Passion’s journey is nothing like Sixteen Candles or Pretty In Pink. This is the raw, burning excursion distorted by hatred, judgment, anger, and ugly pain. Yet, throughout it all there is such understanding that the sorrow is buffered by strength and hope.
Marlo Ettien writes Branches From The Same Tree: Whether Broken or Reaching with such poetic beauty it almost breaks the heart. As she goes through Passion’s early life, she remembers the good with the bad in almost every person with shocking honesty, creating a dizzying emotional ride. The way Passion grows to step outside of her childhood and view the root pain of her family without judgment is inspiring. As she craves love, she learns to see what true love is and realizes she is not bound by the actions of others. She sees the true gift of family is not in what we give or leave each other materially, but what we instill in each other’s hearts and souls.
I recommend this book to everyone with an open mind and an open heart who is willing to journey through the pain and joy of a family torn to pieces. This goes beyond a good read. Branches From The Same Tree: Whether Broken or Reaching is a story that has delved into my own heart and inspired healing.
"Marlo, your first novel Branches from the Same Tree - Whether Broken or Reaching was written in such a style that pours out realism. As I became so enthralled with the characters, I knew for sure that this is not just a novel but a story based on real people, real lives and the forever seeming down beating cycle that tends to keep some families down. Yet, your style of writing allows the reader to identify characters within your novel to be found within our own families. Yet, your style of writing allow us to travel this cycle with the eyes of Passion and to see how she found a way to break that destructive cycle and made the choice of forgiving and healing."
"Marlo Ettien's book chronicles healing and rebuilding of not only one life, but the life of a whole lineage. Anger and pain ripen into wisdom and hope. Ugliness is overcome by inner beauty. What is great about the book is the spirit of strength and warmth in the middle of suffering. The triumph over-shadows the pain, so the book is upbeat and not depressing. The book has SPIRIT on each page...GOOD BOOK."
"I liked the book. I was waiting to see what Passion would do next. I like the special relationship she had with her grandmother-all the lessons that she learned from her. The book is thought-provoking, and inspirational. It offered me insight into another way of life."
"I liked the book. I was waiting to see what Passion would do next. I like the special relationship she had with her grandmother-all the lessons that she learned from her. The book is thought-provoking, and inspirational. It offered me insight into another way of life. "
