Official Ana Gibson

Give Them Their Flowers Before Time is Done I'm not going to lie, I thought this saying was talking about literal flowers. Perhaps, maybe it still is, but I'll tell you why I'm deciding to write about it. The saying hit me the other day while I was complimenting a friend, and afterwards, something totally different came to mind. With my interpretation, the flowers is symbolic to appreciating someone's presence and their soul before their time is up on earth. To give them flowers is to publically and privately acknowledge, to give compliments, to tell them how much they mean to you, to show your gratitude towards them, to be an encouragement, to be a helping hand. It is simply to love and honor and be grateful of the one you so-call care for, whether it's your Parents, Siblings, Nieces or Nephews, Friends, Spouse, or whoever...tell them what they really mean to you. And no, I'm not talking about going off on them. That's not pretty flowers,...

Emotional Traumas and its effects Why we should really talk about Childhood emotional abuse and neglect When I wrote Guide Me Home, I didn't plan on touching the topic of childhood traumas, like Emotional neglect and abandonment aside from physical child abuse. It just happened to come out that way. What I found even more interesting is that as I did my research on the subject, I found that there are so many people that I know personally who are in the same boat as the characters written in my book. As I crafted this story, I mixed both research and my imagination for correlation purposes and found that having experiences like these are not easily fixable, BUT, they are not impossible to overcome.  However, when this kind of abuse occurs, it leaves an unwanted handprint, like a stamp on one's psyche, creating a distorted view about themselves after the trauma has happened, so much so, that the effects have worked greatly against the victim well into adulthood, making it...