This is No Ordinary Joy: How the Courage of Survivors Transformed My Life - Softcover

Symons, Sarah

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9780615820989: This is No Ordinary Joy: How the Courage of Survivors Transformed My Life

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ISBN 10: 0615820980 ISBN 13: 9780615820989

Publisher: Wallsend Press, 2013

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When mom and TV music composer Sarah Symons discovered that human trafficking and slavery were destroying the lives of millions of young girls worldwide, she was compelled to take action. In this deeply personal and brutally honest memoir, she shares how she took on this enormous cause, personally and professionally, and how it changed her and her family's lives forever. Iin a warm, conversational voice, Symons shares why and how she decided to make a dramatic change to re-purpose her comfortable and successful life as a musician and mother of two young children with a husband who aided in their financial stability as an investment banker. The death of Symons’ beloved mother threw her into a life-altering state where she, for the first time in her life, was faced with overwhelming sadness. A series of a fateful events beginning on her mother’s birthday took Symons to Tribeca Film Festival where she saw a documentary about global human trafficking and slavery. Fifteen years later, having come through tremendous challenges, pitfalls, frustrations and miraculous events, Symons has founded and grown the organization Made By Survivors – an international nonprofit organization employing and educating survivors of slavery and other human rights abuses ”I hit some real crisis points over the past eight years ,” Symons admits. “At times, I was tempted to give up. It seemed every time I was at a low point, something miraculous would happen to help us over a hurdle.” She adds, “The biggest miracle is the one we see every day: survivors who once seemed irreparably damaged restored to wellness and radiating joy.”In 54 short chapters, Symons shares her inspiring journey and exposes readers to human rights issues, heartwarming survivor stories and the difference people all over the world are making, and the possibility of affecting change in the face of seemingly unstoppable atrocities.

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Sarah Symons is the Founder and Director of Made By Survivors, an international charity helping survivors of human trafficking and slavery to rebuild their lives with education, employment and entrepreneurship. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida with her husband and children. Learn more at www.MadebySurvivors.com/NoOrdinaryJoy

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