Writers Authors On Fire Podcast

In this powerful interview, Paula Wallace shares stories of overcoming trauma and abuse. Here is the link to Paula's Show Notes page of her interview about Bloom in the Dark. Paula was born to missionary parents in Peru. Raped at the age of five, Paula was caught in a cycle of damage and abuse, which lasted into her thirties. From sexual abuse to later mental, emotional and even spiritual abuse, Paula developed a victim mentality, which fueled decades of continued abuse. As a high school senior, she took a creative writing class in college and received an A in the class. Shortly after, she received an extreme critique, which caused her to stop writing for 25 years - believing she didn't have any writing talent. Paula wrote Bloom in the Dark by interviewing women who had suffered some kind of trauma or abuse. Then she turned the interviews into stories, poems, and letters of brokenness - about how those women had found hope and life and a new start. It's the story of the trauma and abuse in her life too.