Author Biography

Born in Dublin  early 1960s, Patricia’s childhood and adolescence are rife with overwhelming pain.  The daughter of an alcoholic, violent father and a physically and morally exhausted mother, ever since Patricia can remember, she was beaten, used and abused by the men in her life.  Overworked, at times destitute and homeless, alcohol her drug of choice, at one point imprisoned in a mental ward. How does one survive such pain and circumstance?  The eldest of 10 long-suffering children, Patricia is a remarkable woman in that she has had no formal education yet is truly gifted with the ultimate "Gift,", able to communicate with spirit. God blessed the child Patricia, who at the youngest age saw and spoke with angels and often had fleeting contact with the dead. At the age of six, Patricia encountered the spirit of a little boy who'd drowned. It was the first time she had come face-to-face with a spirit, but little Patricia was already aware of the angels in her life. Conversations with the angels that began when she was seven encouraged a sense of protection and guidance. During adolescence, on many occasions, Patricia gave impromptu readings to complete strangers when spirits of their relatives approached her. Patricia embraced the angels and later shared her secret with her paternal grandmother, who could also see them and was the only one who recognized and praised her gift. However, when her grandmother died, young Patricia knew she'd have to deny these relationships or live at the mercy of those who misunderstood her gift as a "curse" and thought her mad. She discovered early on that talking about the angels would only lead to chastisement and cruelty from her parents and others. As a result.  How does one contain such a secret?  As abuse, poverty, exhaustion, fear, and loneliness steadily took their unrelenting toll, she learned to rely on communicating with angels for feelings of security and affirmation. They give her comfort and courage, healing and guidance, and helped her with communication, even when the rest of the world seemed to just give up on her. Gifted but tormented, Patricia's home life was a boiling cauldron of physical abuse by her alcoholic father and emotional detachment from her chronically depressed mother. As the oldest child, Patricia was burdened with helping her mother care for her many siblings. Once she grew older, Patricia also became the main breadwinner in a household where her mother stayed home and her father worked sporadically. At age 12, she was forced to leave school in order to work and provide for the family, and has worked steadily ever since. In her late teens, the hardship of working full-time and assisting her mother with caretaking duties became too much for her and after a three-month stay in a mental health hospital, Patricia denounced the angels and continued to use antidepressants into late adulthood.

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