SaraNiles

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Name	Sara Niles
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Member Since	Jan 09, 2012
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I have spent over fifteen years writing The Torn Trilogy, simply because I wanted it be be valuable to readers of all  ages and backgrounds and genders. I wanted to break the mold that defined genre as fitting one particular group of people or category of readers. I have had readers as young as ten, report they read and enjoyed Torn From the Inside Out (At least the first few chapters) and people as old as eighty who could identify with Torn From the Inside Out (The first book of the Torn Trilogy)-not to mention men and women.

Some of us are born with innate characteristics and talents that are ignited by the passions of personal suffering and refined by our life experiences. I was born naturally gifted with a talent for writing, having won placement in every essay contest that I entered during my youth. I have always loved the art of great literature, and developed an affinity for the classics at a young age that has matured over the years like taste in fine wine. If had lived an ideal life, I would have written about ideal lives, but because I lived and survived an unconventional life filled with an undue amount of trauma and loss, my writings are filled with the passion and pain of traumatic experiences.

My drive to write about such a serious subject as domestic violence and family dysfunction is integral to my qualifications as a writer: A former victim of extreme domestic violence as a young woman; spent twelve years obtaining an academic (secondary and post secondary) education and professional work experience. My extensive training in psychology, sociology, the behavioral sciences, as well as over a decade working in the fields of domestic violence, mental health and drug addiction counseling, enabled me to include the subtle dynamics of human motivation within my writings, embedded unobtrusively like a shadow and to write the final book of the Torn Trilogy from a humanistic, global perspective.

 Former Domestic Violence Professional Trainer.