What Happened In This House

By Mikel G Rosenboro and Iesha P Rosenboro

Going through life while the weather changes are inevitable. This book journeys through the tribulations of childhood vulnerabilities, alcoholism, emotional insecurities, and adulthood stumbling blocks. There are things that could only be understood once they were viewed through the eyes of a survivor. When the human body experiences severe life

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mikel Rosenboro
• Release date: Jul 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087967745

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This Book Is Dedicated With Love and Appreciation

To God

I Am Because You Are

To The Love of My Life

Iesha Rosenboro

To My Children

Makhi, Mikel Jr., Grayson, and Azariah

To My Mother

The Deceased Wanda Rosenboro Correa

To My Dad

Mikel Godbolt

To My Brothers and Sisters

Sean, Crystal, Stephen, Brandon, and Tiffany

And Most Importantly You

The Reader

tABLE OF cONTENT

dedication

Foreword by iesha rosenboro

iNTRODUCTION                  PAGE 5

the Driveway                  page 12

the Front PorcH                  page 22

the living Room                  page 41

the KITCHEN                        page 52

the DINING ROOM                  page 63

the HALLWAY                        page 72

the Bathroom                   page 85

the BEDROOM                        page 95

the ATTIC                        pagE 103

THE FOREWORD

Over the last 9 years, I’ve watched you grow and blossom into an amazing Man of God. This book What happens in this house is a true depiction of your continued vulnerability and submission to your process. There were moments in this book I laughed, moments I cried, but most importantly I felt inspired. Inspired to brave forward and take risks. Watching your life unfold, and take twists and turns, gave me a sense of motivation.

As I turned each page, each page dripped with genuine content and pure authenticity. You definitely have a knack for storytelling, I could literally envision every story shared. In the final chapter, you wrote My mind is renewed, my head is clear. My attic is clean. This statement was so powerful, because so many people walk throughout life full of secrets, disappointments and heartache, and never receive a release. I pray this book serves as a release to some and lives are changed, hearts are touched, and souls are saved!

THE INTRODUCTION

I remember the first time my mother told me, Son what happens in the house, stays in this house, this statement gave me my first glimpse of how it felt to be secretive.  How it feels to hide something from others.  This gave me the inclination which led me to believe that I always had something to hide.  It made it very easy for me to hide things from her like selling crack, selling marijuana, smoking cigarettes, and drinking. 

This very powerful statement led me down a path of dishonesty, and boy was it easy.  It became entertaining for me to lie, cheat, and steal.  Sometimes my dishonesty unintentionally hurt others and I didn't want that to happen, it just became so easy to be manipulative. 

I always questioned why is it that the things that happen in this house must stay in this house?  When other people have similar problems.  If we all are keeping our secrets in the house, then how will we learn from each other? How will we help each other grow? How will we commune with each other?  Keeping what happened in this house, in this house, creates opportunity for gossip, lies, false pretenses, and make-believe success. 

What if what happens in this house can help free someone? What if what happened in this house could save someone else from traumatic events?  Everyone deserve the possibility to be free?  Sometimes we deserve a clean slate to transition through life without any extra baggage. 

When we tell our children not to discuss the issues from inside our home, on the outside of the house, we invite trauma into the home to reek havoc.  The statement What happens in this house stays it house puts our child in a place of role reversal, he/she begins to take on the role of protecting the adult.  When all the while it  is the adult's responsibility to protect the child.

The child will begin to hold on to secrets no matter the cost to him/her.  It is possible a child exposed to this mentality can live in a house with no food and the child will remain silent no matter how hungry they become, how unsafe he/she may begin to feel, how dangerous things become. That level of responsibility robs the child of his/her innocence. 

It gives the child the false notion that he/she has to hide their personal problems from the adult that could assist in the situation.  Leaving the child vulnerable to molestation, rape, or abuse, by reiterating What happens in this house stays in this house.  A perpetrating adult will tell the child to keep the secret, no one needs to know, and you’re strong enough to keep our little secret. right?  When they really aren’t.  Some adults can't handle the level of stress that we put our children through.  Some adults can't handle the level of trauma that we introduce our children to.

We don't understand that the house is not wired to handle that level of distress.  We have to understand that the house isn’t wired to keep things in.  The house was built for security, peace, tranquility, and love.  God gave us emotions and feeling so that they can be expressed.  Expression is something that is dealt with externally, and keeping things inside leads to having disorders.  When you keep in guilt, shame, embarrassment, emotions tend to cross the wires of the house.

This puts your body at dis-ease, which leads to you end up with diseases.  We walk around with diseases, issues, problems that we were never intended to have because our body is in disarray due to things we concealed that harms us.  Why is it that the circuit breaker overloads?  It overloads because it’s taking in way more volts than it is designed to hold.  It’s time to get free good people.  It time to release the things that were placed on you by someone else.

I’m making the vow that what happens