Do You Remember The Moment When You Realized That Every Fairytale DIDN’T Have A Happy Ending?
That Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy weren’t real? That a knight in shining armor wasn’t coming to your rescue?
I remember those moments very well, especially the moment I realized I had to save myself.
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—Shonda Thompson, author of Authentically Shonda: A Memoir of Breaking Generational Curses, Searching for Love, and Finding Abundance
God Said in Isaiah 61:3: “To Appoint Unto Them Who Mourn in Zion, To Give Them Beauty For Ashes...”
Shonda Thompson navigated a troubled childhood filled with trauma, abuse, and pain. She always knew there had to be more to life than this, but wasn’t always sure how to get where she wanted to go. Through creative reflection and story-telling from the memories of her past through present time, readers get to mourn for the little girl who hurt, and cheer for the warrior woman and Boss CEO that was forged in the fire of adversity.
Written as a legacy piece for her children and future generations, Shonda narrates her life story filled with lessons learned along the journey knowing that God was always on her side, even when she didn’t know it or Him. The reader will learn valuable life lessons on:
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God’s Grace
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Redemption and Forgiveness of self and those who have hurt you
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Why Financial literacy and education are key to wealth building
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What love looks like in a healthy marriage and family
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The importance of family and healing your trauma for those you love
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The reader will get to laugh, cry, and rejoice at this woman’s growth as she details childhood, teenage years, and young adulthood where poverty, lack, and insufficiency was the norm. Several life changing events changed the trajectory of her path and gave her determination not only to break the generational curses of poverty, trauma, and pain, but to destroy them and in turn find love and abundance along the way.
God, in return for all her troubles, gave Shonda beauty for ashes.
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“Never let anyone silence your voice. It’s one of your most powerful possessions. You were sent here to set the world on fire. Your voice is the MATCH.”
—SHONDA THOMPSON
Excerpt From: Lesson No. 4: I Already Had the Blueprint, I Just Needed to Build
“What would it be like to win the lottery? What would you do with the money if we won, Ma?” I asked.
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“Well, I’d buy us a house and a car, and then I’d give some to charity, I suppose, and put the rest in the bank,” she replied. This started a whole conversation about all the things we would buy if we had all the money in the world. We dreamt big but had little means and little faith that something like that would happen.
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“I’d go to Hawaii, and buy a Ferrari,” I said.
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“I want a Lamborghini,” my little brother mused. We saw our ticket out of poverty as a one-in-a-bazillion-million chance on a Quick Pick lotto ticket. But things like that didn’t happen to good people, my mother said. People who don’t need it usually win, not folks like us. Not folks like us echoed in my mind.
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I wanted to know what it felt like not to be hungry, not to be afraid, and not to feel completely at the mercy of the world and every sick jab it threw at me. My hopes that things could one day be different led me to the fact that I must complete high school and go on to college so that my life would be better than it had been growing up.
I saw college as my saving grace, but my skewed perception of the world caused me to attract yet another reality check.
I wanted a better life, so I was determined to do and be more. I jumped every hurdle placed in my path, and when it came to school, I jumped with ease. There was no subject that I could not master and I was self-taught since I didn’t have parents at home who could help me with my homework.
Having a photographic memory made school a breeze, but I was so bored most of the time in school and spent every free moment writing out my thoughts in my notebooks. Still, I made great grades and I just assumed that would allow me to get a college degree that would solve all of my problems.
But instead of solving my problems, the expectations and pressures of higher education gave me a whole lot more that I didn’t know how to manage. I had no role models for what it looked like to manage money and resources well. All I knew was how to rob Peter to pay Paul. I knew how to count money, but not how to save or invest or keep debt to a minimum. That was a vicious cycle that had to be broken.
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About Me
Hey, Friend! I’m Shonda
Shonda Thompson is an exceptional mother and wife, and CEO of Three Folds Care Inc. She is a generational curse breaker determined to remove the sting of childhood trauma, abuse, and pain and establish a legacy of health and healing, wealth, and financial stability for generations to come.
The first-time author was born in Muncie, Indiana, and has been journaling since childhood. This book is a legacy piece for her children to get a better understanding of their mother. Shonda holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Auburn University Montgomery and a master’s in counseling and human development from Troy University.
Together with her husband, LaTreco, they lead Three Folds Care Inc., which serves individuals with disabilities in Central Alabama.
When Shonda isn’t writing about and sharing her life lessons, she can be found spending time with her family, baking, and traveling. She resides in Matthews, Alabama with her husband and children.
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