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Calming Melody: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey, is the first book of A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey series. This book is about the simbiotic relationship of a hurting girl and a fragile kitten. This is a story of how healing comes through love and a deep desire to help another be healthy, content and strong. Melody, a teenage girl, who grows up in an abusive home, and is diagnosed with C-PTSD, Dissociative Disorder and Severe Attachment Disorder, finds healing from her emotional wounds through a small gray kitten she names Callie. Melody is introduced to Callie through Abby, who is the proprietor of Loving Hands which is a cat rescue. Abby is given a litter of three kittens from a man who find the abandoned litter of kittens in his backyard. Two of the kittens died on the drive to Loving Hands Cat Rescue. Callie was not responding to Abby and not wanting food. This sweet kitten was sure to die. However, that afternoon, Melody arrives for the first time to volunteer and Abby hears God tell her to “take care of this girl anyway you can.” Not knowing all of Melody’s story, Abby agrees in her heart to help Melody.

Loving Hands: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey, is the third book of the A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) Journey series. This book is about Abby who runs Loving Hands Cat Rescue and chooses to become the guardian for Melody and Stef and starts as an interview between her and a journalist who also needs the intervening love of Abby. Abby has been chosen to be honored in a magazine spread recognizing 30 World Changers Under 30 for Career Magazine in the Not For Profit category. She has been given this honor because of her formation and success of C-PTSD MEOW which stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Survivors Making Excellent OWners. Abby, who grew up in a very healthy family dynamic, learns about Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) through taking in and trying to establish a solid and healthy relationship with Melody and Stef based upon love and trust. Abby, who was only twenty five when she became the legal guardian of Melody and Stef, suddenly is the parent to two teenagers. Abby cannot understand why Melody never leaves her side and Stef fights and screams at her to stay away.