Growing Up Mennonite - Larroquette, Bailey
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In the midst of the seemingly serene Mennonite settlement in Northern Alberta, life bustles with farming and gardening activities. Simplistic living was key, and Brenda Gardener struggles to carve out her individuality. Coming from a family tree with a "good" reputation, yet one that placed dysfunction on the map and a community that discourages personal expression in every way, will her spirit survive her contemptuous mother, sadistic father, and the tyrannical religion that puts a chill down your back and threatens to freeze your soul? Journey with the strong-willed, stubborn young girl…mehr

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In the midst of the seemingly serene Mennonite settlement in Northern Alberta, life bustles with farming and gardening activities. Simplistic living was key, and Brenda Gardener struggles to carve out her individuality. Coming from a family tree with a "good" reputation, yet one that placed dysfunction on the map and a community that discourages personal expression in every way, will her spirit survive her contemptuous mother, sadistic father, and the tyrannical religion that puts a chill down your back and threatens to freeze your soul? Journey with the strong-willed, stubborn young girl through the tangled world of boxed ears, berry picking, and Sunday borscht. In combining season and staunchness, vulgarity and volatility, does a German-speaking Mennonite kid ever actually get to speak up, let alone speak out? Or simply surrender her tenacity in hopes that children are indeed better seen and not heard?
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Bailey Larroquette lives with the symptoms of P.T.S.D., anxiety, and depression, although she is quick to claim;" I don't suffer, I experience." The journey has been a "lurch and stall," sometimes, with the added challenge of overcoming addictions or as she ruefully puts it;" rut-carved tendencies.""When we accept our limits we can rise above them," someone once told her and it stuck. Each diagnosis comes as a clumsily wrapped gift, each one causing her to reach for and lean on her Higher Power."There is beauty in living overwhelmed," she says. "It forces you to give it all up, let go and let God." Another good quote is: "Once we accept our flaws no one can use them against us." And P.T.S.D. removes "the filter," so you speak your mind and people always know where they stand with you.A sense of humor has been a necessity as one alphabetical calamity seems to trigger another, and A.D.H.D. offers the gift of high efficiency with itsbursts of energy and inspiration. There is still a lot of stigma, even though mental illness is no different than lung cancer or arthritis. You didn't ask for it,but you learn to cope with it and love life the best you can anyway. "I don't suffer from insanity I quite enjoy it," says a fridge magnet somewhere. Many people don't possess the guts it takes to talk candidly about their adventures with mental health, but Bailey does, with hopes it will help someone else speak up, reach out, and claim their place in the sun. "You are here because God thought the world needed one of you too."