“From what I've been able to figure out, all of
us are here together and we need one another. We must celebrate each others differences. Learning to ask for help is as important as
learning the value of helping other people. I believe all the people in
my life have been there for a reason, and I hope I have been in theirs
for a reason as well. It's taken me a while, but I feel truly blessed.
After all is said and done, I love life, I love people, and I love being
me.”
I grew up watching The Brady Bunch. I am great at Brandy Bunch Show trivia and I even already knew most of the behind the scenes stuff that she shared about her time on the show. Nothing in that area was all that shocking to me. But, her more personal and private life that she opened up about in the book shocked me. It saddened me and it made me admire her more for what she managed to live through and pull herself out of.
My heart breaks for her for what she was still going through at the time the book was written/published (2009) with her brother and her father. I hope they were able to find some sort of peace with everything.
As with most tv star biographies we learned that everything was not nearly as perfect in real life as it was for their on screen characters. Maureen spent almost 30 years feeling depressed stressed and like she was or very well may go insane. She struggled with a huge drug problem for many years. All of this fuled many years of up and downs for her. When she was finally able to find her way through those nightmares slowly becoming the person she and the people that loved her always knew she was deep down inside her life was again turned upside down when her mother got sick and the events that followed that with her brother Kevin and her father are probably worse in a lot of ways then her years struggling with drugs and anxiety. It was brave of her to share her story of the elder abuse of her father at the hands of her brother Kevin. I am not sure what the outcome of this was as it was still going on at the time the book came out. I do hope the family was able to find peace though.
This was a good read. It wasn't really the light funny read I was going for as a distraction from the other book I am reading but it was still a page turner and I enjoyed it. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars on goodreads.
I am still currently reading Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
I am still on track with my goal of 50 books this year.
My heart breaks for her for what she was still going through at the time the book was written/published (2009) with her brother and her father. I hope they were able to find some sort of peace with everything.
As with most tv star biographies we learned that everything was not nearly as perfect in real life as it was for their on screen characters. Maureen spent almost 30 years feeling depressed stressed and like she was or very well may go insane. She struggled with a huge drug problem for many years. All of this fuled many years of up and downs for her. When she was finally able to find her way through those nightmares slowly becoming the person she and the people that loved her always knew she was deep down inside her life was again turned upside down when her mother got sick and the events that followed that with her brother Kevin and her father are probably worse in a lot of ways then her years struggling with drugs and anxiety. It was brave of her to share her story of the elder abuse of her father at the hands of her brother Kevin. I am not sure what the outcome of this was as it was still going on at the time the book came out. I do hope the family was able to find peace though.
This was a good read. It wasn't really the light funny read I was going for as a distraction from the other book I am reading but it was still a page turner and I enjoyed it. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars on goodreads.
I am still currently reading Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
I am still on track with my goal of 50 books this year.
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