The Intervention: A Life to Live, Book Two

By Dr. Rachell N. Anderson

The book chronicles the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl who murders a television minister 

whom she believes is sending messages of love to her.

This book follows her through decades in prison, her release, and intervention that helped her to make a life on the outside.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781648959585

Dr. Rachell N. Anderson

Dr. Anderson ran a private clinical practice in Springfield, Illinois, from 1974 until she retired in July 2008. In the practice, she provided individual, marriage, and family therapy to help people heal emotional pain and grow personally. She is credentialed by the National Register of Health Service Psychologists (NRHSP).For twenty years, Dr. Anderson taught clinical courses to graduate students and served as chair of the Department of Human Services (DHMS) at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She spearheaded the redevelopment and accreditation of the HMS program and served as its chair from 1999 until 2006. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, master's degrees from Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a bachelor's degree from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has lectured widely and served as vice president and chair of the publications committee for the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. She founded the Central Illinois Society of Adlerian Psychology; served as copresident of the Central Illinois Psychological Society; and is a member of the American Association of Black Psychologists, the National Organization of Human Services, and the American Psychological Association.Dr. Anderson has received many awards from learning, teaching, healing, and serving in her field. An award from the Committee for Children's for twenty-five years of dedicated services on the family stress consultation team, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Who's Who America's Professionals, and Who's Who of Executives and Professional 2009 Woman of the Year are among the many. She was selected by her peers to receive the University Pearson Faculty Award for sustained excellence in teaching in 2006. This honor carried a substantial monetary award, of which Dr. Anderson used a portion to donate twenty copies of her book Responsible Children in Today's World to fifty day care centers in her home state of Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.Dr. Anderson has authored seven books. Recent publication Before Our Eyes is a chronicle of the healing advantages of watching psychotherapy in an open forum, and The Legacy Continues: Writing Healing Stories is stories for healing emotional pain are available. An eighth book, Run Turkeys, Run, was published in 2010.Since retirement, Dr. Anderson has volunteered four clinical hours a week at the Church Health Center in Memphis and facilitated the Writer's Workshop at the Tunica Museum in Tunica, Mississippi, and served on the board of the Mississippi Writers Guild.Dr. Anderson has a very large extended family in Tunica, Mississippi, and is the mother of three grown children, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

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The Intervention

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ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-64895-957-8

ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-64895-958-5

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Contents

Heading Home

The General Store

Fall from Grace

Ode to Another Life

Trials

Breathless

Bloodguilt

Duty Bound

Things Left Undone

Long-Held Beliefs

In a Heartbeat

Mixed News

A Truth Spoken

Sacred Trust

Living and Breathing

Old Loyalties, New Ties

Is This a Joke?

Chapter 1

Heading Home

Madelyn walked the dandelion-laced fields at the home of her childhood and thought about a quote credited to Robert Frost: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. She knew she wouldn’t be there long. Her record would become a topic for community conversation.

Madelyn walked and wondered why her life had gone as it had and what it would take to get it together out in the real world. She wondered why the guard at Whitfield had come to her living space, and without prior notice or explanation, he told her she had been released. He forced her to quickly get her things and get out.

Her next thoughts were where would she go, then why parents had given her a brother after all those years. Wasn’t she enough? With her mother and father long gone, this brother, Paul, was all the kin Madelyn had left in this world. Surely he would see her after she was let out of prison after forty years. He was old, sick, penniless, and camped out in the homestead.

Her parents left the homestead to Madelyn, but with Madelyn’s long prison sentence, Paul had taken over the house. Having Madelyn around would complicate things for him.

As she surveyed her childhood home, it became clear that the structure and the inhabitant were both in great need of repair.

He’s obviously back on drugs, she thought.

He hung out with the town’s known dealers, and women were in and