Get Tough or Die: Why I Forgave My Parents for My Abusive Childhood

By the time Barbara was four-years-old, she already knew what she would have to do: Get tough or die. Before DVDs existed, Barbara's childhood trauma was permanently recorded and embedded in her head. Long before surround sound technologies were available, she captured all of the sights and sounds of her childhood in vivid detail. To write this book all she had to do is press “play,” and that scared her because many of those details were not a pretty picture. Some looked more like an old Alfred Hitchcock horror movie. Barbara often wished during her childhood she was simply playing a part in a movie where a director would yell “cut,” and everything would be okay. Unfortunately, her childhood was no Hollywood movie. It was real life – a situation she was born into and had to endure―severe child abuse at the hand of her father, while her mother was too afraid to protect her and her siblings. Now, as an adult, Barbara looks back and knows it was only by the hand of God and many miracles any of her siblings and she survived at all. Two of their sisters were not so lucky. Some parents used to say, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.” Some of them meant it. We had laws to protect animals before we had laws to protect children. We now have the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, and yet, statistics show more than four children are dying every day in the United States from child abuse and neglect. That is more than any other industrialized country. By telling her story, Barbara hopes readers will be inspired to do whatever they can to help prevent spouse and child abuse.

Sellers, Barbara L.

Parenting & Relationships

Momosa Publishing, Llc

That's Life: In Poetry and Short Stories

Poetry was Barbara Sellers's first love. She wrote her first poem at age nine, although she wrote 
most of the poems in this book when she was 35 (the same age she is on the book cover). 
Sellers's early poems were humorous and made people laugh. She enjoyed entertaining friends and 
family members with her humorous poems, so she continued to pursue her passion to write more. 
Before long, instead of sitting down at a desk and waiting for inspiration to write her next poem, her 
poems started coming to her naturally while she slept. In the middle of the night, she often awoke with a 
new poem on her mind. If she did not take out a pen and write it down, going back to sleep would be very 
difficult. Originally, the first poem Sellers fell in love with was "Little Orphan Annie" by James Whitcomb 
Riley. She read Riley's long poem so frequently that Sellers can still recite all four stanzas from memory, 
without notes. 
Sellers said some of the greatest poems ever written often have to be closely examined before anyone 
can fully comprehend their meanings. However, many casual readers do not enjoy reading poems that are 
too cryptic to immediately decipher. That is why Sellers largely writes simplistic poems with messages that 
are easy for anyone to understand.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Bright Communications LLC

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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