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    Fearless: a Journey to Financial Peace
    Fearless: a Journey to Financial Peace
    Fearless: a Journey to Financial Peace
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    Fearless: a Journey to Financial Peace

    By N. M. Elliot

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    After finding her brother dead from a financially motivated suicide, this gripping story shows one womans journey from her haunting financial past to financial hope. I harbored my own financial distress and secrets just like my brother. I knew that I needed to tell my husband about our own descending financial situation. The dread was back with its baneful eyes piercing my soul. I was utterly lost, and I needed to find a way out.

    Money pervades all aspects of our lives; however, our past pervades all areas of our money. I was already married with a family when I found out how my childhood fears influenced my financial decisions. Looking back I remember my father as a mans man. Standing at six foot four, he was an imposing figure. He had a narcissistic personality which both attracted people to him and made people fear him. As a child, each evening when the sound of my fathers footsteps reached our front porch, one of us children would yell, Run! Katherine Paterson, national ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, said that a childs heart is a resilient thing. Bend in out of shape and it bends back but rough it up too much and it develops ruts. My heart had developed deep ruts, and for most of my life when I felt fear, I ran. This is a book about how I stopped running.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJun 13, 2013
    ISBN9781449794477
    Fearless: a Journey to Financial Peace
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    N. M. Elliot

    N. M. Elliot, born in the Midwest, holds an English degree from the University of Kansas. After learning how to become financially free, she has taught both adults and high school students the benefits of financial freedom and peace. She champions the cause of the financially hopeless, sending the message that God can renew anyone.

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      Fearless - N. M. Elliot

      FEARLESS:

      A JOURNEY TO FINANCIAL PEACE

      N. M. ELLIOT

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      Copyright © 2013 2013 N. M. Elliot.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9448-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9449-1 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9447-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013908216

      WestBow Press rev. date: 06/10/2013

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Story

      1.   Crossroads

      2.   Belief and Behavior

      3.   Anxieties

      4.   Marriage

      5.   America the Anxious

      6.   Charity

      7.   Hope

      The Workbook

      1.   Fearless Change: Life’s Intersections

      2.   Fearless Thoughts: Give Direction

      3.   Fearless Focus: Observation

      4.   Fearless Humility and Honesty: Marriage

      5.   Fearless Freedom: God’s Image

      6.   Fearless Love: Charity

      7.   Fearless Hope: Prayer

      Money pervades all aspects of our lives; however, our past pervades all areas of our money. I was already married with a family when I discovered how my childhood fears influenced my financial decisions. Looking back, I remember my father as a man’s man. Standing at six feet four, he was an imposing figure. He had a narcissistic personality, which both attracted people to him and made people fear him. As a child, each evening when the sound of my father’s footsteps reached our front porch, one of us children would yell, Run!

      National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Katherine Paterson, said, A child’s heart is a resilient thing. Bend it out of shape and it bends back, but rough it up too much and it develops ruts. My heart had developed deep ruts, and for most of my life when I felt fear, I ran. This is a book about how I stopped running.

      I dedicate this book to my husband,

      Jon, who stood by me in good times and in difficult times,

      and to my fearless friend Stan.

      THE STORY

      We meet waste, loss, and injustice and cruelties of a psychotic parent.

      —Katherine Paterson

      CROSSROADS

      My father’s name means brave, strong, boar. My oldest brother’s name means watchful, vigilant, swift. My father is a deep, dark ravine with an unpredictable temper. I remember my father, wild-eyed and snorting like a mad animal beating my brother, and the beatings would cease only after the rage was spent.

      Memories of my mother are of encouragement. Mary, she would say to me, where you plant a rose, a thistle cannot grow, quoting The Secret Garden. She loved gardens, flowers, and plants and things that seemed impossible.

      Look at that, she would smile and point to a blooming plant growing up out of a cement sidewalk. She believed in God’s goodness and that beauty could grow even in a dark corner. In many ways, she was both fearless and hopeless.

      I was born in 1960, and my brother was born in 1958. Three other children followed in the family after us. We grew up in old neighborhoods where trees touched high in the middle of the street, and summer evenings were long and spent outdoors on the porch swing. Sometimes we lived close to our maternal grandparents and were able to benefit from their slow-paced life. Our family read books, and my mother regularly took us all to Carnegie Library where we would eagerly descend the basement stairs to the children’s room. Color abounded in red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and violet on the library shelves, all books waiting for us to discover them.

      My mother and grandmother made sure we attended Mass every Sunday, all of us except my father. We went to the adjoining parochial school for our elementary education. Although I savored my childhood walks with my mother down honeysuckle alleys and endless afternoons with my grandmother who watched me ride a bike, beyond those comforts was a horrible secret peering and piercing my heart with its baneful eyes.

      When writing about it in my

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