Up From These Ashes
is an intimate and personal account of one woman's incredible journey of survival against all odds. Despite severe childhood trauma, including incest, beatings, abandonment, extreme poverty, and starvation, God's love and mercy triumphed over the trauma, transforming her life from ashes into triumphant beauty. Through personal stories of tragedy and triumph and the ongoing revelations from God and her own research, Dr. Dora Washington shares how the effects of trauma in the past can lead to adult irrational behaviors, mental illnesses, debilitating fears, suffocating insecurities, unmentionable secrets, tormenting nightmares, and deep-seated emotional and psychological pain. Throughout her life, the unwavering thread of God's grace wove a tapestry of redemption and healing which led her to establish Tower of Hope Ministries to help others suffering from the adult effects of childhood trauma