A Personal Growth Journey
"A Personal Growth Journey" is the story of my quest to escape the emotional devastation of
child abuse and heal my battered self esteem. I've built this site in order to
share with you the insights, information, strategies and techniques I learned
during a sometimes painful yet ultimately productive 14 year period of healing and rediscovering myself.
My trek began in earnest in April of 1993. I fell to the floor of the
restaurant I was about to lose while suffering an emotional breakdown and cried out for my mother.
I distinctly remember the part of me that wasn't screaming, crying and
drooling was wondering "What if she actually showed up?" I recovered from the
meltdown but, like a pebble in my shoe, that question annoyed me for the rest of
the day. That evening I began writing "Conversations with Katherine", the book
that serves as the foundation of this website.
"Conversations with Katherine" is the story of Rudy Krause's struggle to
overcome the debilitating self image bequeathed him by an abusive step-mother.
His mentor and guide on his personal growth journey is his Katherine Krause, the
mother who bore him and died 2 1/2 years later. It is a vicarious account of my
own effort to unearth the loving, gifted and deserving person that had been
buried by years of emotional abuse.
On this site I'll teach you...
I'll share with you what I've learned about:
I'll teach you some philosophy from Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow.
- You'll gain insight into what lies at the heart of all
human motivation and you'll come to understand why you're always
striving to become a more complete you.
- I'll introduce you to a powerful exercise I designed to map your way to
happiness by exploring what's really important to you.
- And I'll share with you some science that will explain some of
the unbelievable claims you've heard from Law of Attractions teachers.
This personal growth site will educate and amuse you.
I take the topics I write about very seriously and explore them in great detail.
Consequently, there's a lot to read on this site (over 30,000 words; that's a
short book). However, I do not take myself too seriously and I believe my
writing style reflects that fact. I hope to impart lots of wisdom to you and
perhaps bring a smile to your face now and then to boot.
Will my personal growth "stuff" work for you?
Will this web site provide you with the answer, that one little bit of
insight or information that will break you free from whatever it is
that's been holding you back? I truly hope so, and I'm confident that
for many my "take" on personal growth will in fact set them on the
right track. But I also realize that there are a whole lot of roads
that lead to my home town, and that some of those roads work better for
some people than for others personalized children. Whether you "bust loose" because of this
site or not, I thank you for stopping by. It is my sincere desire that
you take something of value when you leave. And if you do, please tell
your friends about personal-growth-journey.com.
Jerry Grinkmeyer
January 2009
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