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Meet Sara Shaw
Stories & InsightsMay 22, 2025
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Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sara Shaw. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, Sara thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?
IT STARTED WITH A TRUE LIFE STORY
Contact: Sharon Cook/415-302-1752 or sharoncook771@gmail.com
CAN ONE REALLY HEAL FROM TRAUMA?
HEALING YOUR LIFE ONE LEAF AT A TIME BY SARA SHAW
TRUE STORIES OF HEALING FROM PERSONAL INTERVIEWS IN NEW BOOK
Palm Beach County, FL (8/1/24)… South Florida author, Sara Shaw, recounts real
life stories of healing from trauma and tragedy in her second book, Healing Your
Life One Leaf At A Time (Trilogy Publishing/July 2024). Her first book, Two Sisters
and the Four Leaf Clover, a story of a family’s tragedies, desperation and strong
will to survive motivated others to come forward to tell their stories. This led to
her writing Healing Your Life One Leaf At A Time, a compelling compilation of
intimate interviews by of people from all walks of life sharing their darkest days.
She hopes that these heart-rending stories will help others heal from their own
trauma and tragedy.
“Being honest about your own life opens the door for others to be brave and have
the courage to share their pain and help with their healing,” says Olivia, who
reveals her story of emotional abuse, abandonment, foster care and surviving
cancer. The personal experiences of the 19 people who were interviewed include
abuse, divorce, war, prison, abandonment, growing up in an orphanage, foster
care (good and bad), suicide, loss of loved ones, grief, and drugs and addiction.
Sara says, “These accounts of men and women, young and old, from all over the
country, tell stories about their lives and journeys, some shocking and some that
led to dark and dangerous places. They unselfishly shared not just for healing
themselves, but to offer hope and healing to others. It has been a life changing
experience for all of them.”
While tragic childhoods and other unavoidable circumstances contributed to their
experiences, a common theme throughout the book is the blind eye they had to
red flags that led to dangerous relationships and situations that caused trauma
and abuse. Learning to recognize the red flags and owning their mistakes put
them on a path to healing and rebuilding their lives whether through faith,
sobriety, angels or even gardening. Catherine, a popular singer who has opened
for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legends and Grammy winner Lacy J. Dalton is a
participant in the book, is using her experiences and a song she composed called
Run Girl Run to reach out and address the culture of enabling abuse and instead
enable the survivors.
An important message that these stories offer is that even though you may have
been dealt a bad hand, one cannot change the past, but can change the future.
Many have deep scars and hurts. Many have found happiness and some peace.
There is tremendous healing power in telling your story.
According to the legendary singer, Tina Turner, a victim of physical abuse by her
husband Ike, “Because of something that I found within myself, something that is
actually in all of us, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.”
For more information visit the website: www.sarashaw.org or email Sara at
Both of Sara’s books are available on Amazon and at your favorite bookstore and
retails for 22.99. The Kindle version on Amazon is $9.99.
Healing Your Life One Leaf At A Time
By Sara Shaw
6 x 9 (soft cover) 320 pages
ISBN: 979-8-89333-205-6
Price: $22.99
Trilogy Christian Publishing
Pub Date: July 2024
FOR COVERAGE ONLY, SUNDAY, JUNE 3OTH FROM 4 TO 8 PM
Contact: Sharon Cook/sharoncook771@gmail.com/415-302-1752
SOUTH FLORIDA AUTHOR HEADS BACK TO HER ROOTS IN OHIO
TO HOST BENEFIT BOOK LAUNCH ON SUNDAY AT GRAYTOWN WINERY
Oregon, OH (June 30, 2024)… South Florida author Sara Shaw is heading back to her roots in Oregon, Ohio to host a benefit book signing and launch of her second book, Healing Your Life, One Leaf At A Time (Trilogy Publishing/July 2024) on Sunday, June 30th from 4 to 8 pm at The Mockingbird on Mill Road Wine Café, 4408 N. Elliston-Trowbridge Road in Graytown.
Sara’s book is a compilation of stories of men and women, young and old, who unselfishly shared intimate details about their lives and journeys. For most, the journey led to some dark and dangerous places. They shared their stories not just for their own healing but also in the hopes to encourage and help others. Some of the victims are residents of Ohio.
The book signing and launch includes a 50-50 raffle drawing and $2.00 of every book sale will be donated to the Family & Child Abuse Prevention Center. Books are specially discounted to $12 for this event (regular price is $22.99). The Family & Child Abuse Prevention Center serves thousands of families in Lucas and Ottawa Counties and is dedicated to breaking the cycle of family violence.
Refreshments including a charcuterie board, assorted flatbreads, Sangria, Lemonade and Iced Tea will be served. Music is by Award Winning Vocalist Abbigale Rose, who has opened for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Legends Induction Ceremony and Grammy Award Winner Lacy J. Dalton.
Her book will be available for sale on Amazon and book stores nationwide.
OCTOBER: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. THURSDAYS IN OCTOBER HAVE BEEN DECLARED PURPLE THURSDAYS
FIVE SIBLINGS FIND FAITH TO NAVIGATE LIFE FOLLOWING A SHARED CHILDHOOD OF PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Boca Raton, FL (10/25/22)
A healthy and happy childhood should be a foundation to build strength and love to enter adulthood as kind and responsible citizens. The five siblings in this true story Two Sisters & The Four-Leaf Clover (Trilogy 2021) by Sara Shaw did not have that chance. Abused sexually and physically throughout their childhood, their lives were compromised from a young age by an abusive stepfather and a mother who felt powerless to stop it and was abused as well.
Author Sara Shaw takes the reader on an intimate journey of the lives of two sisters and their families from the Great Depression to the present. At age sixteen both married to escape their unhappy home life. Unfortunately, their paths dangerously affected not only their lives, but also the lives of their children who were growing up in another turbulent time in history, the 60’s. Shaw’s detailed historical timeline woven into the story creates a better understanding of those times.
Shaw who is the daughter of one of the sisters believed that finding a four- leaf clover as a child would change her life, not expecting what would happen. She prayed every day for a better life. Her life and her brother and sister’s, she discovered later, was not as chilling and horrendous as her cousins’, who early on lived nearby, but then moved. Sara’s family rarely saw them after the move. Connecting later in life after the death of their mothers, the cousins’ story unfolded, devastating Sara. She felt a powerful sense of urgency to tell this important story by writing a book to help her cousins heal. Psychologist Michael Koller agrees, “It is admirable when an author can capture the real, true feelings of tragedy and then the triumph that results from underlying hope and perseverance. I applaud Sara for having the courage to write such an important book that takes all the skeletons out of her familial closet.” When Sara recalls certain true-life events she wrote about in her book, an overwhelming sadness washes over her. “Even today, I am still shocked to the very core, yet my cousins’ remarkable courage far surpassed what I had ever known about them.”
This is not a story of despair and hopelessness. It is a story of hope, courage and restoration. Their survival became about finding God, having hope and working to build a new life out of the rubble.
For video interviews of Sara and her cousins and for more information, visit the web at www.SaraShaw.org
Two Sisters & The Four- Leaf Clover is available on Amazon and at your favorite bookstore. Sara is currently working on her next book, Healing Stories.
Contact: Sharon Cook
415-302-1752 or sharoncook771@gmail.com
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