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    TURNING FEAR into resilience

    Mar 27, 2017 5 minutes
    by Savannah Freemantle

    Cara Brookins is the author of the memoir Rise, How a House Built a Family, which has sparked over 1 000 news stories in more than 65 countries.

    Her memoir reveals how she and her children escaped domestic violence.

    Traumatised and suffering from low self-esteem, she realised that her family needed something big to bring them together and remind them of their potential. Practically, they also needed somewhere to live. They embarked on building their future home from scratch – armed with nothing more than YouTube videos and sheer determination.

    In this exclusive, Brookins shares her tale of her transformation from a life of fear to one of strength and resilience.

    Q: WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO BUILD

    A HOUSE FROM SCRATCH?

    : I had left a domestic-violence situation with my

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