House of Wounded Hearts is required reading for anyone who is subjected, or ever was, involved with alcoholics, domestic violence, verbal abuse, drugs, attempted suicide, a victim of stalking, or lived enmeshed in dysfunctional families or guilt-tripped or guilt-ridden. She relives her childhood growing up on the North Dakota plains, the granddaughter of immigrants and pioneers. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and Jesus to members of her family, and her own encounter with the White Light, inspire her to rise above overwhelming challenges. A major automobile accident changes her destiny when she dies on the operating table and makes a promise to the White Light in exchange for additional life and is resurrected on Easter Sunday. Severe injuries cripple her right side, and she is scarred for life after going through the windshield. She heals herself becoming a living, medical miracle. Nadine suffers retrograde amnesia from the auto accident and does not remember that she is engaged to her first love, Perry, instead, she believes she is with another high-school sweetheart, Don. She is unable to distance herself from her dysfunctional family. She marries her best friend's brother to avoid being murdered by him. After an incident of domestic violence, forced to hide from him, unable to hold a regular job, she earns a living gambling and dancing until the marriage is annulled. She marries Don so he can avoid the Vietnam draft. The government changes the rules so he is drafted. She works three jobs to pay-off their bills. She joins Don in Germany and works for the United States Army for the second in command. Nadine and Don divorce after returning to the USA. She begins taking college courses while working. Once again, she is the victim of stalking. Nadine flees and opens a boutique on the beach in Newport Beach with a borrowed $250.00, called The Idle Id. She marries a lawyer, Stephen, whose teenage daughter comes to live with them and work at The Idle Id retail store. A polygraph scares the daughter into confessing massive stealing from the store. She becomes a pioneer designing and manufacturing Idle Id Iron-Ons. Opening iron-on departments nationwide for a major retailer, she is raped and stalked by a powerful Vice President who forces her company to go bankrupt. It is a gut-wrenching, frightening, compelling, painful, powerful, thought-provoking, and strangely healing book for the reader. Her journey details pain, anguish, sorrow, strife, and evil. Reading it is often painful and shocking, yet outrageous and sensitive. There are cherished moments of tenderness where her love for life shines through, her will to survive and overcome, overshadows the tragedies that fill her life. Her struggles are affirmations of hope, sprinkled with humor and the irony of life as she meets her destiny and continues to fulfill her promise to the White Light. This book takes us through the gamut of emotions and leads us to the realization that life is precious. Each of us really can endure, we realize we are incredibly strong and most of all; each of us do have worth. House of Wounded Hearts is an indictment against alcohol and domestic violence. It is an affirmation that in dealing with our pain, we reach for joy, peace, freedom, truth, sanity, and ultimately healthy relationships!
About the Author: Jussta currently lives in Oceanside, California. She is the author of a series of autobiographical books entitled Journey of a Soul which includes House of Wounded Hearts, Money, Deeds, or Sorrow, and Miracles from the Fire. She writes monthly articles on consciousness and empowerment for Bellesprit Magazine. Currently she is writing a screenplay for a television series based on her life, entitled, "The Promise". She is considered one of the pioneers and leaders in the human potential movement; Jussta is inspired and guided. She combines the gift of conscious channeling when writing Energy Reports for social media and in personal readings for her clients. Jussta provides many different modes of healing with her extensive knowledge of ancient wisdom, religions, native cultures, primitive ceremonies, philosophy, as well as, her Shamanic healing integration work. Jussta taught firewalking as a sacred ceremony to thousands of people of all ages to face their fears and firewalk without injury. In 9-day residential firewalk leadership training in many parts of Australia, she conducted, 'FLITE' (Firewalk Leadership & Intensive Training & Empowerment) to certify firewalk leaders from different parts of the world. She included Sacred Sweat Lodges, Shamanic healing, Vision Quests, Native American drum and rattle making, including Shamanic Drumming which she called, Riding the Drum. She also conducted her weekend empowerment workshops called 'Mansions of the Moon'. Jussta was featured on national television in Australia, including '7:30 Report' and 'Real Life', as well as, being interviewed on national Australian radio. She was the subject of numerous feature articles in Australian newspapers and was interviewed and featured several times in the international magazine, Golden Age Magazine. Her original articles published in Golden Age, one entitled, "Riding the Drum" and another, "Fable of Firewalking". Jussta traveled the world alone for 14 years. She lived in Taiwan teaching English and doing public speaking, in Hong Kong she gave a two-day business seminar to 84 PhDs. While living on the island of Maui she created public slide shows put to music, (the forerunner of MTV), on Bali she designed one-of-a kind jewelry, clothing, and shoes. Jussta also did Laying-On-Of-Hands healing for both the Balinese and ex-patriots from around-the-world. Visit her website, www.jussta.com, for photographs, articles of her abilities, journey, and public-speaking info.