Compost Happens: Growing a Flourishing Life After Childhood Abuse

Compost Happens is a chronology in which author Diana Morgan Dean bravely shares her journey through a lifetime of reactions and decisions made using her emotional baggage for guidance. It is often a perilous journey fraught with Dean’s conditioning by the adults in her family. These adults were not Ward and June Cleaver. Some of Dean’s experiences growing up were so dreadful that she hid them away in the back of her memory just to survive.

Although the accumulation of years can signal reaching adulthood, that’s not a sure thing for Ms. Dean. She carries the messages she received as a child, worthlessness and fear of abandonment, into each of her personal relationships. Her needy thoughts and actions in three failed marriages ensured that the outcomes were disastrous.

Diana Morgan Dean writes well, and she presents herself to the reader as a conflicted being. Impulsive decisions seem like exciting new beginnings for her. This might work for some people; however, not if your attitude consistently results in many dead ends. The proverb “If you do what you did, you’ll get what you got” could have helped if she had learned it earlier in life.

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