Wave Rider:
Poetic Journey from Abuse to Wholeness

Rebecca Pott Fitton

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ISBN 978-1-938288-74-6
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About the Book

Wave Rider is a poetic reflection of author Rebecca Fitton’s long journey to heal from sexual abuse, abandonment, and neglect, building a new world based on wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. Her journey has taken a lifetime. To use the metaphor of waves, sometimes the undertow nearly drowned her—but she survived. Now her beautiful and profound book offers inspiration to others who have also suffered greatly from abuse.

Preview

Speaking Softly

I am not a poet.
Poetry requires
discipline
structure
writing within the lines.

I am a wise woman
who is weaving together
the threads of her life
who savors her
perspective
interconnectedness
every-woman-ness.

It is time to speak softly
so that the world hears.
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Karma

I came into this world loaded with karma
karma to work on
karma to work through
karma to complete.
It is hard to imagine a newborn infant with all that
baggage.
I had picked my parents to facilitate this Earth work.
This was the beginning of always doing things the
hard way.

I have finally realized
that the walls I created to protect myself
were, in part, to protect me from my mother.
Together we did a karmic dance
one foot forward, three feet backward.
The floor was uneven and our steps collided.

Eventually I realized that
my actions, attributes, and attitudes replicated
the clinically depressed and sexually abused.
That felt like a lot.
Overwhelming is more precise.
The baggage nearly buried me.

About the Author

Rebecca Pott Fitton explored different places and professional work.  She grew up in Delaware then went to upstate New York for college.  After graduating from Keuka College, then a women’s college, she returned to the University of Delaware for her Masters of Arts in International Relations.  Then she headed for Michigan for careers in urban planning and healthcare administration and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Detroit.  She continued her healthcare profession in Ohio and retired as President of CareView Home Health in Middletown.
 
As others who retire know, retirement is a busy time.  She served on five non-profit boards bringing her business acumen to each.  She and her husband Richard built a new home on his farm, and then he died suddenly. Recovery from his shocking death took time.  Finally she realized that the time had come to remake herself.  As the lyrics of the song go, “I’d built a life wrapped so tight it was strangling me.”  Freedom was a spirit call from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 
Rebecca arrived in Santa Fe in 2008 and fell in love with the blue skies, clean mountain air, a vibrant community and the arts.  Her first poem was written under a juniper tree.

Praise for
The Secret of La Rosa

Rebecca’s journey, delightfully presented through her sacred poetry, resonates with an archetypal journey shared by many.  The intimacy of her sharing and beautifully aligned prose guides us into a state of consciousness where peace can be found.  Her book is a delicious delving into the sacredness of individuation.
—Melissa Pickett
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It is said that the longest journey begins with the first step.  Truthfully, something precedes the first step:  saying ‘yes’ to the journey.  In her book of poems, Rebecca invites us into her journey---a journey that says a resounding ‘yes’ to life and an emphatic ‘no’ to abuse.

Her voice found through poetry, Rebecca speaks with courage, determination and delight.  My life-journey is the richer after reading her poems.
—Paul Chitwood, L.M.T.
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Rebecca’s lyricism is rich, deeply powerful and soulful.  Wave Rider takes you through a wave of emotions, windows into fear, raw and intimate angst ridden moments and struggles for survival, that culminate in a triumphant transformation of healing…an important body of work for anyone who has suffered abuse; yet it speaks to everyone.
—Lin Renner
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I have been reading Rebecca’s poetry for a few years now.  Her choice of words in describing deep emotions, life’s challenges and pivotal awareness evoking experiences creates for me a rich and expansive tapestry of multidimensional memories, feelings and a desire to explore further within myself issues and life mysteries raised by her poetry.
—Emily M. Smith
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Rebecca writes with clarity and originality.  She touches the feminine truth that lays waiting to be heard and felt.  When seen in print the reader feels that her truth has been expressed, understood and valued.
—Cary Arden