Join WomensRadio Editor-In-Chief, Pat Lynch, as she talks with author and founder of the Lamplighters organization, Marjorie McKinnon. Marjorie shares her story of sexual abuse and how it has affected her life ever since. Lamplighters is an organization that provides support for victims of both child sexual abuse and domestic abuse and Marjorie’s new book, “Repair” focuses on the healing process involved with such abuse.

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In 1987, after the death of her fiancé, Marjorie McKinnon wrote The Greatest of These is Love, the story of what it is like to prepare someone for death. A year later, prompted by severe depression and surfacing memories, she entered a program for recovery from incest, a journey that would take almost five years to complete. During that time, she wrote about her experience, a chronicle of going from a place of despair to one of joy. That book, titled Let Me Hurt You and Don’t Cry Out was her first attempt to publish.

Unable to sell it, she spent the next five years developing a program on recovery from childhood sexual abuse. Despite being a non-professional, it was her belief that a program devised by someone who had walked the same road would be a sensitive and pragmatic resource. She titled that self-published book, REPAIR: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse and used it as an accompaniment to seminars she taught in the Los Angeles area.

In the last ten years, Marjorie has completed a fiction trilogy that follows the life of Kathleen McGuire whose spirit guide, Jake, provides her with wisdom and direction from another world as she gets herself in and out of trouble. Book One, The Box is currently with a New York agent. Three non-fiction works, Mystical Experiences: Tales of the Inner Light, Blue Skies and Green Lights: How To Create A Perfect World Through Positive Growth in the Six Dimensions, a post-recovery book, and A Common Sense Spiritual Path, as well as a mystery novel, When First We Practice to Deceive are all completed. Hello My Name is Marjorie, close to completion, is a sprightly and often humorous email account of her courtship with Tom McKinnon, her husband, who she met on the Internet while doing genealogy research for the McKinnon clan (her name was also McKinnon).

Marjorie is currently doing speaking engagements in the northern Arizona area based on her book REPAIR. As an adjunct to her seminar, she has started The Lamplighters, a support group for victims of child sexual abuse that emphasizes the importance of REPAIRing the damage. Feeling that a movement of one voice would give more power to survivors, she hopes one day to have Lamplighters all across the nation. Currently there are Lamplighter chapters in both Arizona and Minnesota.

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