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Marynell Lund


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Marynell Lund was born in Lake Benton, Minnesota in 1951 and grew up in a home of abuse and mental illness. Marynell weaved a childhood out of a life filled with mental illness, drug addiction, incest, and abuse. She grew up on a poor man’s farm trying to weave out her childhood in a very dysfunctional family.

Marynell was in the army and stationed in Germany during the Vietnam era. Later, she went to college and pursued a B.A. in Sociology, which opened her world up to coming full circle with a lifestyle and then studying same lifestyle.

She has given many speaking engagements on the topics of abuse, alcoholism, and incest. Marynell has also written articles on this topic as well as other topics. She has published short story articles for a local newspaper. She is a self-accomplished expert in the field of abuse and has taken her life of being a victim and turned it into being victorious.

The Normal Side of Insanity

Marynell Lund
Infinity Publishing (2010)
ISBN 9780741458964
Reviewed by Marissa Libbit for Reader Views (06/10)

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Synopsis:
Marynell weaved a childhood out of a home filled with incest, drug addiction, mental illness, and alcoholism. She encountered three perpetrators starting at the age of 6. The pattern of abuse continued with abusive marriages and losing a baby to being beaten. Marynell went on to serve in the Army. With marriage number three came three children. All her fears rushed at her when her third child, a daughter, was born and all the abuse came rushing to the surface. She had to find a way of dealing with the past and yet protect her daughter from experiencing what she had experienced.

Marynell went on to pursuing a degree in Sociology and later did various speaking engagements related to her past. It was during the middle of a trip to go and speak about abuse that God showed her the light and told her of her mission to be in life. It would have been easier for Marynell to keep the secrets of the past in the shoe box of her heart but with pen in hand and God by her side Marynell has taken us deep into her pain and suffering. You will go to the depths of her pain and come into the light with her and see how you can grow and change. The Normal Side of Insanity is a must read for educators as well as victims.