Camouflaged Shame (Uncensored) - Pizarro-Harpe, Jeanette J
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This memoir, Camouflaged Shame reveals the ugly truth of experiencing military sexual trauma (MST) while serving in the US Marine Corps, developing post-traumatic stress and panic disorder, and how, in the author's case, childhood trauma was the potential contributing factor to her being susceptible to this abuse. In this moving memoir, Jeanette combines the insights of a woman who learns to overcome her childhood traumas, the life experiences of a woman who has survived the horrors of military sexual trauma, with the path a woman travels to find her healing and self-love. Jeanette takes the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This memoir, Camouflaged Shame reveals the ugly truth of experiencing military sexual trauma (MST) while serving in the US Marine Corps, developing post-traumatic stress and panic disorder, and how, in the author's case, childhood trauma was the potential contributing factor to her being susceptible to this abuse. In this moving memoir, Jeanette combines the insights of a woman who learns to overcome her childhood traumas, the life experiences of a woman who has survived the horrors of military sexual trauma, with the path a woman travels to find her healing and self-love. Jeanette takes the reader through her journey to find recovery from MST via her mind body and soul connection working synergistically to heal. By allowing the reader into her thoughts and feelings, she hopes to bring awareness to the truth about what women in the military go through once they have dealt with MST and how there is possible a connection between childhood trauma, mental health, and physical symptoms that potentially can all lead to some illnesses. In Camouflaged Shame, you will learn how Jeanette: · Identified her patterns of dysfunction · Overcame hard emotional scars · Reconciled childhood traumas · Found forgiveness · Discovered how to live an amazing life ¿ If you or someone you know experienced military sexual trauma and are now living in emotional, psychological or physical pain, Jeanette J Pizarro-Harpe's true victim-to-victorious story is a must-read!
Autorenporträt
Jeanette is an Afro-Latina born and raised in the Bronx NY to her Puerto Rican parents, Carlos and Anna. Her father is a US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, and after going to college for 2 years she followed in his footsteps and joined the Marine Corps herself. She was enlisted and served during Desert Storm from 1991 -1997. Jeanette was honorably discharged in 1997 as a Sergeant and returned to civilian life with her, two children Darren and Devon. Jeanette went back to school and earned her Technical Diploma in Network Engineering and Data Communications, her AS in Digital Arts and Animation and last her BA in Multimedia Arts and Design. She completed this all while working on her trauma and mental health, treatment and recovery.Jeanette volunteered at the VA hospital in the Bronx and decided that she could do more by working directly in the system. Jeanette moved across the US from New York City to Arizona and in 2010 worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs with the Vet Center - Readjustment Counseling Center. There, she utilized her multimedia art and administrative skills to help reach and assist her peers. As the Office Manager and outreach assistant in numerous veterans' conferences and events, where she presented on benefits and provided resources for mental health and trauma and provided guidance for them on finding assistance for filing disability and compensation entitlements through the Veterans Administration.Jeanette has always been a person striving to do more. In 2012 she accepted a job with the Veterans Administration as an Executive Administrative Assistant to the Chief Nurse of the Southern Clinics in Cape Coral FL. In 2014 she was promoted and accepted a job as the Secretary to the Deputy Network Director of VISN 7 and the Executive Assistant to the Chief Nursing Officer in Georgia. In 2016 she moved to Las Vegas to work with the Department of the Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Office as their Administrative Officer. Finally, in 2021 she retired early due to medical issues.Jeanette lives in Texas with her soulmate, her husband Retired (USMC) Gunnery Sergeant Darius Harpe and daughter Erica. Their oldest son, Staff Sergeant (USAF) Darren Pizarro, lives in Las Vegas. Darius and Jeanette share two other daughters and a son. Brionna, Clinical Social Worker, who lives in NC, Demetria who lives in Utah with her biological mother and son Devon who lives in Las Vegas. Jeanette occasionally does freelance work as a multimedia artist, designing websites and logos for small businesses creating corporate identity packages. She continues to help her veteran peers become successful and connect with their resources whenever she can. She was the Secretary for, and member of her local chapter NV-3 Sagebush Marines, Women Marines Association. Jeanette is the Media and Marketing representative for, and member of, Colors of Lupus Nevada and Gamma Pi Rho Lupus Sorority, Incorporated.