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An Inside Look Into Healing A Young Girl with ACEs

Book Synopsis/Jasmine/The Wooden Girl by Janie Lancaster
    The death of Jasmine’s mother forces her to leave her familiar hometown in Brewster, New York and travel by plane thousands of miles away to the city of San Diego, California to be reunited with a stranger–a man who calls himself her dad.
 Jasmine’s father is expecting to meet the exuberant lively little girl with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes he left behind six years ago. Instead he is confronted with a fragile, pale, adolescent girl whose dark downcast eyes has lost their sparkle. He can’t undo the past, although he wishes he could. How can he help his little wooden Pinocchio girl of his to come back to life? And how can he help her without pushing her over the edge?
A gradual transformation takes place in Jasmine as her father provides a safe place for her to live and works toward building her trust in him and repairing their shattered relationship.
The warm sunlight, soft breezes and the blue green waters of the San Diego Bay bring color back into Jasmine’s face and life back into her soul. The natural beauty, live music, entertainment and people of Seaport Village further awaken her mind and heart.
Periods of joy, pain and deep sorrow weave a thread into the lives of father and daughter and form a bond between the two of them that can’t be broken.
 In the end Jasmine, the wooden girl comes to life.

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Jane Stevens posted:

What age group is this book for, Janie? Why did you decide to write it?

I hope this book will be read by all ages, especially parents and teachers but the girl in the book is twelve years old. The book should be healing for those who have suffered childhood abuse.

The story is character driven by the lost child in me and healed by the adult I have become as well as the things I have learned, how things should have been or wished they had been.

I had a right brain awakening about twelve years ago that led to hypergraphia and Jasmine was part of that writing. During that time I was tossed back and forth in time emotionally and mentally seeing things from the inside out as well as the outside in. It was a time of insight and awareness that put me in overdrive processing my past, present and future life. Imagine part of your brain that you did not have access or even know existed waking up.

I  am in the process of editing Jasmine now.

Here is a short piece of the story.

“ I want you to come with me daddy I want to show you something.” Jasmine said.


“Anything sweetheart,” he answered as she took him by the hand. They both walked over to the Horton Plaza Mall and soon stood before the picture of the little boy with the haunting eyes.


Jasmine’s father looked at the boy’s hopeless face and unforgettable eyes. He stood frozen as he read the words that were written on the boy's face. Worthless. Stupid. Idiot. Shut up. I’ll smack you. I’m sick of you.


Jasmine took the tiny picture that she was holding tightly in her right hand and she showed it to her dad. He looked at the picture of his little girl. It said second grade class.  It was Jasmine’s school picture with the same sad empty look and the same haunting eyes.


Jasmine pointed to the little boy’s picture that was hanging on the wall and said to her father, “That’s me daddy and I don’t know how to erase the words.”

I wrote this while I was sitting at the Horton Plaza mall, looking at the picture of the that same boy, with tears streaming down my face. And at that time I too didn't know how to erase those words.

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