Mothers of Special Needs Children Can Find Victory in their Challenge |
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NFS Communications and Publishing, Inc.
Public Relations/Multicultural Marketing Consultants
MOTHERS OF SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN
CAN FIND VICTORY IN THEIR CHALLENGE
Inspirational Book Encourages Moms to Pursue
Dreams While Caring For Mentally/Physically Challenged Children
May 20, 2009…Atlanta, GA…When taking care of a child with physical and/or mental challenges, it is so easy for a mother to lose her sense of self, while trying to maneuver her days and nights around the care of her special needs child. Sometimes her interest in her looks, her ambition, her dreams and even her husband disappears as she focuses on her child’s care, healing and future.
However, according to the author of the newly released book, “The Elected Lady—Finding Victory in the Challenge, (Words of Faith, Reflections, Inspiration for Mothers of Special Needs Children and Other Moms) (OutskirtsPress, $15.95), that wasn’t what God intended when he chose these women for this life-changing assignment. The purpose was to bring out hidden characteristics they didn’t realize existed within them, which would, in time, greatly enhance their lives.
Norma Stanley knows this from personal experience. She is the mother of a young adult daughter born with cerebral palsy, and is successfully pursuing her life-long dreams, after years of doubt in herself and in her future. But she believes that she and other women like her, were women chosen for this difficult task because of their inherent strength, compassion, courage and determination to win.
“Finding out that your child has a physical and/or mental disability is one of the most painful things a mother can experience,” said Stanley, a multicultural marketing consultant, specializing in reaching disability community. “At first you’re distraught, then you immerse yourself in doing whatever you can to get your son or daughter to where they can live the most productive and fulfilled life possible” she continued. “However, as a result you find that everything else takes a back seat, or is lost to caring for your child—and your faith, confidence and dreams are the things to disappear first.”
As she persevered in her responsibilities to raise her special child, Stanley says she later realized her blessings were hidden in this challenge. That is why she wrote the book, “The Elected Lady—Finding Victory in the Challenge,” to help mothers in the same situation find peace, renewed faith, strength and comfort, knowing that they weren’t alone in their fight and how they can not only dream again, but make those dreams come to reality.
Among the chapters and topics discussed in the book relevant to all mothers, but particularly to those with physically and/or mentally challenged children, are understanding why these mothers are “Chosen Women”; how they can accomplish “Mending Through Motherhood”; how to overcome being a “Girl Interrupted” from her goals and dreams; if there is such a thing as “Chosen Men for Chosen Women” and in the end, how these women are “Finding Victory in the Challenge.”
“The book features reflections from mothers, including myself, who have experienced a variety of individual struggles in raising their special needs children, and how they coped with it all,” Stanley said. “It also shares perspectives from a woman who grew up with cerebral palsy and physical challenges, but who achieved success in her personal life, as well as her professional life. In addition, the book offers words of faith and inspiration, provided through poems and motivational messages included in each chapter,” she continued. “These inspirational messages are meant to soothe, enlighten and encourage these women not to dismiss who they are and what they were specifically created to be and do. It shows that in the fight for the healing of their children, they can find their own healing,” she said.
Stanley, whose young adult daughter once couldn’t walk or talk, is now taking some unassisted steps and beginning to speak in short sentences, says things began to change once she realized that her challenges all had a purpose, which motivated her to get busy. As a result, she has become an author, a disability advocate, a disability marketing consultant, which is a new niche in the multicultural marketing arena, and singer/songwriter—seeing all her childhood ambitions and current purpose emerging almost simultaneously.
“After a few long years, I realized that it was because of my current life experience that I was able to find my purpose--working to bring awareness to the disability community and the voids in products and services," shared Stanley. "This forced me to draw on my professional background, as well as my gifts and talents, to help change some critical areas in the community—particularly as it relates to working mothers with special needs children,” she said. “I am now working with an organization designed to help fill critical gaps in services for families with special needs children, called the All Children Are Special, working to build a Child/Adult Care and Education Therapeutic Center.
Helga Moore is founder of the organization and one of the mothers included in the book. Stanley says she and Moore are both friends and they are moving towards their individual dreams, even as they care for their special needs children.
“It was an honor to be included in Norma’s book along with other mothers like ourselves,” shared Moore. “Although we have our own unique stories to tell, at some point, all mothers of children with disabilities share the same experiences. I hope that all women will find inspiration in what’s shared in the book,” she said.
Stanley, who is in the process of writing a book for fathers of special needs children due out at the end of 2009, says the stories in her first book are heartwarming, motivational, thought provoking, and inspirational.
“This book was written not only for mothers of special needs children, but for all mothers and those who love them,” Stanley said.
More information about “The Elected Lady—Finding Victory in the Challenge,” is available by going to www.nfscommwriter.com. The book can be purchased on Amazon, Borders.com and other major online bookstore retailers worldwide.
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