When Terry Sue's alcoholic mother passed away, she embarked on a 40 year journey to search for her absent biological father. She realized she just simply wanted a sincere apology from him. Another challenge that Terry Sue faced was functional illiteracy. She feels a debt of gratitude for having escaped alcoholism and illiteracy, to where she is today, as a published author. Terry Sue shares these nuggets of life wisdom: - perseverance is the key - trust your intuition - talking about the past can be helpful and take the shame out of it - there is a way out of the dark and secretive mindset - open up - put language to those vague thoughts - find community and comfort tags: Terry, Sue, Harms, writer, author, The, Strongbox, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean,