Marion Elizabeth Witte takes us on a very personal journey into her past as an abused child growing up in a farmhouse in the prairies of North Dakota. Her childhood was not only cold and harsh on a physical level because of the cold winters in a home that didn’t have adequate heat, plumbing and more, but cold and harsh because of the upbringing that she had to endure.

When you open the book, and see the picture of her as an innocent, beautiful, little child, and then read the story of hardship and abuse, you can’t help but want to protect the little child in the picture…and any little child…so tender, so innocent, who may be in the same situation…and this is Marion’s goal. Her story details her abuses, the history of abuse in the family in previous generations, and how she compensated for her needs in her adult life. But compensation is not healing. Marion shares the various places of healing that took place in her journey. It is a very detailed journey, and I imagine that writing the book must have played a role in the healing process itself.

The most wonderful thing that can come from our challenges is the opportunity to turn around and help someone else who may be facing the same thing…and this is what Marion does as an advocate for abused children.

You can find out more about Marion Elizabeth Witte, and her book when you visit “Little Madhouse On the Prairie”

Read this book, and may I suggest another that I found helpful when going through some healing of my own on a spiritual level…maybe Marion will see this and add it to her journey…maybe she already has…but a wonderful book and study by Beth Moore called “Breaking Free”.