You Are Not The Father

RIVETING...and RAW!

Miranda Queen, is an inner-city young lady that made it out. She embodies pure strength, motivation, and sheer will to survive! She is a woman determined to defy all odds against her. An admired, esteemed, and well-respected Naval veteran. This book identifies with anyone with an active heartbeat. She outlines how to heal past the pain of anyone hurt both past and present.

Miranda shares how she was forced to deal with the deep, dark rooted, secrets of her parents that affected her while she found her truth in her parents lives. As painful as it was to find out at age 36 - that the man who she thought was all her mother's children's father, also molested her at age 9. He was in fact not her biological father, but a man everyone knew in her neighborhood and family.

The long-lasting pain was so deep, she questioned everything in her life. Clearly, uncertain of her future as a mother, Miranda harbored anguish, doubt, pain and regret. Miranda details how she healed past the pain of this deep family secret.

A 13-year-old mother and 34-year-old grandmother.

Her family members and classmates thought that she would have at least 3 more kids by 18 but instead she visited 8 countries by 18. Miranda wanted to be normal like her other friends and family members but nothing about her childhood and life was normal.

One adversity after another and just when she thought she was catching a break the secret was revealed to her. It was time to face her past now, PTSD... both pre and post military, and the anxiety and depression suppressed for 30 years along with this secret for 36.

About the Author

Miranda Queen is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the first 10 years of her life she witnessed her father physically abuse her mother, parents abuse drugs, alcohol, steal and do whatever they had to do in order to survive. By age twelve she had been molested, in and out of foster homes, a runaway and pregnant. She was confused about how life was going and should be. She became pregnant at twelve and a mother at the tender age of thirteen! Somehow during it all she held on to her belief in God. Miranda is a mother and grandmother. She left Baton Rouge in 1999 and joined the United States Navy where she planned to retire. Unbeknown to her at the time, God had another plan and path on her journey. After serving for thirteen years in the military and being laid off, Miranda went into the banking industry, started a business, and graduated from the University of Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management where she is currently working on her MBA. Although things seemed great on the surface her personal relationships with her partner and loved ones was suffering. She suffered from anxiety, depression, and PTSD while her life took another turn. She found out at age thirty-six that the man she thought was her father was in fact not her biological father. Just when she thought life could not get any worse and things started to look up, she had to pause and deal with the pain of this news. Miranda could not run or hide any longer from the pain of her past and present. She found out that she could heal past the pain and begin to do just that. Her belief is that everything in your life was predestined to happen for God to use you for your purpose. Her mission is to help women heal from and through the pain of their past, to operate in their purpose. "One day this pain will make sense to you".

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