Lucinda Streiker Schmidt
Journal of an Amish Girl
A Young woman Finds her voice
A Separate God by Lucinda Streiker Schmidt (aka Elizabeth Kaiser) follows Rachel through her pilgrimage from beneath the shackles of oppression, abuse, and dissatisfaction into the pillar of the liberty of self-discovery. After years of reluctantly submitting to their rigid principles, Rachel finally finds the courage to resist the Old Order Amish structure and discover healing from a culture that altered far more than just her appearance and habits.
What did she go through to find freedom? How oppressive was her situation? What did Rachel see that made her question everything?
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A Separate God: Journal of an Amish Girl
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A Separate God by Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt follows Rachel through her pilgrimage from beneath the shackles of oppression, abuse, and dissatisfaction into the pillar of the liberty of self-discovery. After years of reluctantly submitting to their rigid principles, Rachel finally finds the courage to resist the Old Order Amish structure and discover healing from a culture that altered far more than just her appearance and habits. (Elizabeth Kaiser is the author’s original pen name.)
Raised in a male authoritarian culture, the Amish, for years I had an all-consuming need for the approval of men. The battle for male acceptance and sanction became who I was. That twisted need for affirmation had led to self-destructive behaviors, manifesting in crippling mood disorders, impaired judgment and devastatingly poor choices. Now, years later, after extensive (and expensive) therapy and incredibly valuable life lessons, as described in this book, I am no longer that person. Join Rachel in her continued personal growth.
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I purchased this book from Amazon because every time I went to buy it from the bookstores, they were out of the book... this was a good clue that it was an incredible book. It was very well written in the fact that you truly felt as if you were Rachel in the book. I became her and felt her pain, love and victories as she went through them. I cried,laughed and felt her incredible freedom and victories that she experienced.
I have to say I was thoroughly captivated by this story! I ordered it on-line (amazon), got it on a Friday and finished by Saturday evening. I'm a constant reader with a wide interest in subject matter and from that perspective the book held it's own to any I've ever read. It was a compelling story from beginning to end. It was one where I laughed, cried, was outraged, cheered and was completely engrossed!
This is a great book that was written from the heart... She was very honest and up front about her life, about her feelings and how she still loves her family, she just can not be a part of their lives on a day to day basis.