Kathleen Rose Morgan is a mother, writer, musician, reiki master, and explorer of various methods of energy medicine and the art of healing trauma. Originally from Staten Island, New York, she traded ferry boat rides for her kayak when she moved to Vermont. Adverse childhood experiences ended Kathleen’s official education prematurely. She was self-educated through books, music, mentors, and the cultural offerings of NYC where she split her time between playing guitar and singing in a prog-metal band and working at large law firms as a legal administrative assistant.

Kathleen offers her memoir in service to the greater understanding of how indifference and inability to discuss painful subjects only keep trauma alive. She shares how adverse childhood experiences have lifelong consequences, but they are wounds that can be healed through the courage to stand up, speak up, and find acceptance and love for the self. Finding the root cause of our pain and the wisdom in wounds can reconcile history and rewrite stories to a more just ending. Confronting a traumatic past and sharing stories of truth with love and understanding effectively support personal power, healthy relationships, and community healing for the greater good of the human spirit.

Mother was an emotionally damaged woman shrouded in depression and dark secrets. Father was a man plagued by alcoholism who lived in a state of drunken evasion for many years before jumping ship. Kathleen was born into this family who masqueraded as ordinary and merged with a lineage and community plagued by toxic male aggression, submissive women, wannabe Mafia brutes, charlatan holy men and women, and lurid and criminal goings–on, all made possible by cheek–turners, complicit and fearful enablers, and the ever–present overarching code of silence.

The Seller of Secrets tells a story of the admission of long-held secrets of trauma, leading to a poignant heroine’s journey to seek deep healing through truth, nature, various forms of energy medicine, and a longing to rediscover the authentic self. After a shocking deathbed confession is revealed, the healing path merges with an investigation into a shadowy past where the puzzle of long-hidden family secrets is painstakingly assembled. Kathleen recognizes how adverse childhood experiences shape a fractured life with limitations and how the importance of acknowledging the truth and freeing oneself from fear and the muteness of shame is the key to true freedom.