Difrancesco Alex - Breaking The Curse A Memoir About Trauma Healing And Italian Witchcraft - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In Breaking the Curse Alex Di Francesco takes their own crushing experiences of assault addiction and transphobic violence as the starting point for a journey to self - reclamation. Reeling in the aftermath of a rape that played out as painfully in public as in private Di Francesco begins to pursue spirituality in earnest searching for an ancestral connection to magic as a form of protection and pathway to transformation. Propelled by a knowledge of the spiritual role of the transgender person in society Alex winds through Cleveland and Brooklyn and Philly - from rehab and pagan A a meetings and friends spare mattresses to tarot readers and books about Italian witchcraft to daily ritual prayer altar - making and folk tradition. In so doing they begin to not only piece together a way to heal but also call into existence a life that finally feels worth living. Breaking the Curse weaves spells blasphemous novenas and personal memories to imagine a new memoir form. Speaking about trauma does not always take its power away Di Francesco reminds us but one can write their truth so that the hurt no longer fills the whole horizon.
Title: Breaking The Curse A Memoir About Trauma Healing And Italian Witchcraft
Author(s): Difrancesco Alex
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644213841
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 6/18/2024
Category: Memoirs