Publisher's Synopsis
Emotions ranging from happiness to fear fill people's everyday lives. For children, adults, parents, and guardians in the facial difference community around the world, this is also true. Yet there are deeper wounds that happen, too. Those can include physical, emotional, and mental abuse either from others or self-inflicted. Understanding those emotions, where they come from, and how to address them in the midst of living through one's own personal journey takes bravery and action.In "CleftThoughts: Emotional Musings From The Facial Difference World," author Joe Rutland shares his own experiences as well as what he's heard from others in the facial difference community. Rutland, born with a unilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, has dedicated a good part of his life toward educating, supporting, and informing those in this international community about the importance of tending one's emotional garden.Mixed with real-life experiences and nurturing words and meditations, "CleftThoughts" brings out into the open what others might be afraid or unable to communicate.
