My book and this website are dedicated to providing you with hope, guidance, and additional resources to aid you on your healing journey.
May you be happy
May you be well
May you create your own beautiful, flourishing life.
As an adult, I thought I was free from my abuser, that the good life was waiting for me.
But I carried my emotional reactions as a child into my adult life and created a mound of compost that I lugged around like 50 pounds of rotten potatoes.
“This isn’t it” became how I looked at everything about my life—this basic assumption kept me dissatisfied with many careers and poisoned intimate relationships. The heap of compost piled high, threatening to bury me.
Can you relate?
Just as I did, you too can free yourself from the consequences of childhood abuse and create a happy, meaningful life. You too can turn that load of abuse, trauma, and challenges into fertilizer for a flourishing life.
I wrote Compost Happens to reach out to those who have endured abuse, with the belief that a flourishing life is possible after trauma of the past. Join me as I transform the pain of childhood sexual abuse into a journey toward a fulfilling life.
Diana Morgan Dean is a psychologist who has written a powerful book about big “T” trauma—in this case, her own. I can only imagine what determination and persistence it took for her to record details of her abuse with such brutal honesty. Pain and loss accompanied her through a richly varied life where she stumbled and suffered but kept moving forward. Diana’s chronicles of her healing journey provide, not a road map for overcoming trauma, but inspiration, guidance, and support for those seeking to gain self-understanding and achieve peace and satisfaction in their lives. It is a real contribution to the trauma literature—for professional therapists who work with trauma survivors, and to survivors of abuse to know that they are not alone and that there is always hope.
—Judith Kay Nelson, author of
Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment and
What Made Freud Laugh: An attachment perspective on laughter.