How You Can Move from Broken to Beautiful

Yvonne Ortega is a bilingual professional speaker, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and the author of Moving from Broken to Beautiful:  9 Life Lessons to Help You Move Forward and Finding Hope for Your Journey through Breast Cancer. One of the books in her Moving from Broken to Beautiful deals with forgiveness.  In her interview, she shares the misconceptions about forgiveness which make it very difficult, if not impossible, to forgive.   Yvonne not only survived but thrived after a domestic violence marriage, divorce, single parenting, breast cancer, multiple car accidents, and multiple deaths in the family within weeks of one another including the death of my only child. She understands tragedy and why we must forgive those who have hurt us, in order to move forward. Moving from Broken to Beautiful: 9 Life Lessons to Help You Move Forward, includes a chapter entitled “Admit Your Mistakes.” I knew then I would write a third book in the Moving from Broken to Beautiful series, and it would be on forgiveness. Since we don’t have alligator skin and a heart of stone, people will hurt us, especially those closest to us. We also make mistakes in life and hurt others. Yvonne uses personal anecdotes and God’s timeless truths to help women exchange shame and guilt for God’s grace to forgive themselves, to overcome anger and bitterness and with God’s power forgive others, to break free from the prison of the past and gain the peace, freedom, and abundant life of forgiveness. In her interview, Yvonne offers tips on everything from HOW to forgive to what to do in an abusive marriage.