Katherine Maribeth is a daughter, mother, and now an author. She’s sharing the legacy of three women across time.
Wayward Daughter(s) is a spiritually intimate, emotionally raw, and unflinchingly honest story told through the voices of three generations of women within one family.
More than just a story, it is a testimony of survival, surrender, and spiritual redemption. Through themes of sexual abuse, abandonment, addiction, self-worth, rejection, and identity, this book exposes the invisible inheritance of generational trauma and the extraordinary power of grace to transform it.
The journey begins with Marie, born in 1942, abandoned by her teenage parents. Raised by her grandparents, she endures years of emotional trauma and physical and verbal cruelty, often at the hands of family members and loved ones. The afflictions she faces lead to a lifetime of destructive patterns, unhealthy relationships and behaviours. Through decades of dysfunction, pain, and loss, her life eventually comes full circle, ending in a profoundly personal spiritual awakening before her death in 2024.
Katherine, Marie's daughter and the author of this work, picks up the thread and introduces her life and her daughter, Elizabeth. Before focusing on her personal redemptive story, she takes the reader deeper into the full generational impact through the eyes of her daughter.
Elizabeth, Katherine's daughter, offers a deeper narrative and insight into the generational impact within this family unit. Her account of early trauma, self-loathing, eating disorders, and failed relationships is a painful reminder of the eerie similarities shared between the lives of these three women and the impact that generational trauma can carry. As she wrestles with the damage left behind by her mother's wounds, she falls into many of the same destructive patterns until she finds her path to healing, faith, and forgiveness.
As the manuscript shifts its focus back to Katherine, the author and primary subject of this story, her journey becomes the turning point. She explores generational impact, her pain and trauma and the radical breakthrough that eventually changed it all. A breakthrough that has the ability to provide complete generational restoration for anyone in search of hope for their family.
This multi-generational story reveals how healing is possible, not through perfection, but through vulnerability, reflection, and surrender. Each chapter is knitted together by a spiritual thread, moving from pain to purpose and from bondage to breakthrough. Wayward Daughter(s) is deeply personal, but also powerfully universal. It speaks to anyone-man or woman-who has carried pain they didn't cause or fought to find peace in a world that didn't offer it.
Katherine birthed this book from a calling, guided by faith, and was completed through perseverance. Wayward Daughter(s) is not just about surviving trauma. It's about what happens when inherited pain meets radical grace and how a wayward daughter finds her way home.
John 1:12 ESV: But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
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