Penelope Wesley
Penelope Wesley is a retired nurse with personal and professional experience with grief. She has led small groups and is past coordinator of women’s ministry in her church in Kentucky. She is receiving training in lay counseling. She is presently working on a memoir called a “Journey Out of Silence” and on the story of her father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease, called “Broken Pieces.”
Articles:
Alcoholic Families Create Legacy of Loss
By Penelope Wesley — We usually don’t think of alcoholism as a loss, but it creates ripples of loss in every direction. My experience with alcohol and abuse consists of being raised with an alcoholic father and a mother who turned to drinking later and attempted to hide it, and my own struggle with drinking to drown out my memories. These memories included watching my mother being physically abused and being chased around the house by my father with a butcher knife. I grew up in fear of anger and became afraid to talk. I often feared that my father would go to […]
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