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Theodore McDowell is a disabled and retired attorney who grew up within the family crucible of abuse, alcoholism, and mental illness. This crucible left lasting emotional and psychological wounds.
As an adult, Mr. McDowell experienced additional traumas. In 2004, he was disabled from the practice of law as the result of a traumatic brain injury suffered in a car accident. The injury led to periods of depression, mania, substance abuse, and homelessness. For over twenty years the author struggled with the brain injury, mental illness, substance abuse, and periods of homelessness. The struggle, however, ends on the themes of redemption, forgiveness, healing, and recovery.
Theodore McDowell is a disabled and retired attorney who grew up within the family crucible of abuse, alcoholism, and mental illness. This crucible left lasting emotional and psychological wounds.
As an adult, Mr. McDowell experienced additional traumas. In 2004, he was disabled from the practice of law as the result of a traumatic brain injury suffered in a car accident. The injury led to periods of depression, mania, substance abuse, and homelessness. For over twenty years the author struggled with the brain injury, mental illness, substance abuse, and periods of homelessness. The struggle, however, ends on the themes of redemption, forgiveness, healing, and recovery. Mr. McDowell discovered the miracle within the marrow of suffering. He experienced the hope and God’s grace embedded in suffering and pain.
The author has written a series of three books which explore the journey through childhood and adult trauma. These three books are Evenings on the Edge of Death, Excavating the Cruelty of Memories, and Drinking from God’s Well.
Prior to the publication of the three-book series, Mr. McDowell also published two previous books of poetry: Wrestling a Blessing from God and Yearning for Human Touch. These two books also deal with his responses to his traumas.
Mr. McDowell currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is married with five adult children and seven grandchildren scattered across the United States.
Theodore McDowell has published a series of three books of poetry which explore his journey through childhood and adult trauma to healing and recovery.
Evenings on the Edge of Death, focuses on the author’s painful and traumatic experiences within his relationships with his mother, father, and sister. Topics include child abuse, alcoholism, suicide, and the difficulty of saying goodbye in the context of his mother’s dementia.
Excavating the Cruelty of Memories, explores Mr. McDowell’s experience with four adult traumas: a traumatic brain injury, mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse. The book details the author’s twenty-year struggle with these traumas.
Drinking from God’s Well, examines the author’s dramatic and difficult healing and recovery from his childhood traumas, his traumatic brain injury, his bipolar disorder, his substance abuse, and his experience of homelessness.
The autobiographical and fictional poems contained in the three books confront the powerful emotions surrounding trauma, including grief, shame, guilt, anger, suffering, faith, hopelessness, hope, redemption, and forgiveness. The books are personal, authentic, and poignant in their exploration of Mr. McDowell’s struggle from the depths of despair to the joy of redemption and forgiveness. The goal of this series of three poetry books involves depicting the deep pain and damage resulting from trauma and rejoicing in the hope and God’s grace embedded in this suffering.
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