UNLEASHED and FREE

About the Book

Many of us are born into families where we become increasingly more bondaged as we grow. There are those forbidden things that we are prohibited from doing. There are our natural curiosities that are stifled. There are boundaries placed on activities and spaces. Our worlds become smaller and smaller for our best interests. Our worlds become fraught by the cannots rather than the can-dos. And before we know it, the adult fears of our parents and teachers become internalized by us so that we too become self-imprisoned by all manner of fears and constraints. We become fearful of adventure, travel, books, motorcycles, one another and much more. However, there remains a vestige within each of us of desire—desire to shed the bonds and break free to flight. This struggle plays out on many levels: the spiritual, psychological, material and relational. For me, it has been through an interplay of the internal and external that I am beginning to become unleashed to become the person whom I think God intended.

About the Author

Dr. Bond-Cox was born in Brownsville Tennessee, the older of two daughters. Her parents were local educators who stressed hard work, close knit family, Christian values, and education. Bev grew to love learning and became a top honor student throughout her years throughout elementary grades, Roman Catholic girl’s boarding high school, two universities and more recent seminary degree. Having achieved her educational aspirations to become a Ph.D. licensed clinical psychologist engaged in college teaching and private psychological practice as well as ordained Christian Minister and Spiritual Director, Bev turned her attention to her first love since childhood---writing. She began dusting off old works and creating new ones. This current book is a combination of the old and the new. This book represents a ten-plus plunge into the icy dark and cold waters of domestic violence with another. It was a painful yet important journey. The journey informs everything that she has ever done from police psychological coordinator, to psychologist in a child development center, to Director of Psychology in a state facility for individuals with mental retardation to school psychologists in public schools and a correctional facility and more.