Places to be Blessed

About the Book

Places to Be Blessed a deliberate work documenting personally lived experiences that anyone would have interest in. A conscious interpretation of life experiences using folktale to identify and describe painful experiences allows for the freeing of the mind of the burden of those experiences. We all can benefit from using our life experience as spiritual inspiration. Yet among thousands self-help/psychology/inspirational books, none has really been geared to examine themes of social development and discuss sensitive topics like race through a personal lens. Places to Be Blessed offers a liberating source of identity and resistance to oppression through intuitive writing from psychologist and professor, Dr. Valerie Bradley-Holliday. Rather than being a chronological monologue about my life, Places to Be Blessed is a deliberate work documenting lived experiences in a focused way to articulate new learning and new understanding. If a person were interested in a book that uses writing as inquiry to journey from painful experiences and gaining a new perspective, Places to Be Blessed would be it.

About the Author

Valerie’s doctorate degree is from The Union Institute and University, a distance-learning program based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her specialization is Social Psychology. She has a Master of Social Work Degree from Wayne State University. She has a husband, three boys and a dog. She has four short stories published, a book that is written and in need of a publisher, and a book in progress. Her first love has always been short stories and journal writing. She writes like some people eat popcorn. Her varying interests include: art, singing, gardening, and reading. She currently teaches graduate and undergraduate students online.