Land Mines

Land Mines
Sheilah Vance
Elevator Group Publishing
ISBN: 987-0-9786854-1-6
Fiction, Self Help
Reviewed by Connie Harris

Land Mines by Sheilah Vance is a book of therapeutic fiction. Written in journal format it provides the reader a realistic look at divorce and the unexpected encounters (land mines) that can and often times do occur. Land Mines is the journal of Carolyn James.

A few years ago she was a practicing attorney married to a doctor, Tom. Then suddenly her husband leaves her for his much younger yoga instructor and turns Carolyn's world upside down. Left alone to raise their two young children, nine year old son David and eleven year old daughter Angela, Carolyn begins keeping a journal to save her sanity. Recording her thoughts helps her to keep her head above water and puts her on a path of self-discovery. Saying affirmations to herself daily, Carolyn works to remove the land mines in her life. She is determined to reclaim the pieces of herself that she had given away throughout her eleven years of a bad marriage that has left her unsettled.

Land Mines shows us how therapeutic it is to journal through personal life challenges. It is a way of unscrambling the jumble of overwhelming thoughts swarming around inside of our head. Writing down our thoughts may help us to make more sense of them and putting them down on paper gets them out of our head - at least for a little while. Sheilah Vance also gives a list of seventy seven prompts at the end of the book to get us started on our way to journaling.