Catherine Mellen

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Paul Hollis will interview Catherine Mellen.

Catherine Mellen is an American poet, author and blogger.  Born in 1969 Lowell Massachusetts.  She wrote her first poem at age fourteen and quickly adapted her love for words.  Shamed by the childhood she lived, she became a cook and caterer for nearly three decades.  An auto accident at age forty-five, left her disabled and a victim to horrifying repressed memories.  In 2018 she started a blog where she shattered her silence on childhood trauma, family secrets and unsolved murders in her hometown. 

Her poetry has been published in numerous poetry journals and she is the author of Christmas in Poetry Land: A delightful collection of holiday poetry. Survivor's Mind/When Childhood Trauma and Poetry Collide: Which is the poetry behind her lifetime of living in shame, secrets and silence along with the courage, strength and survival she wrote with each poem.  A Childhood Tragedy Under A Mother's Watch/Part One 1975-1982 Lowell Massachusetts: The horrifying true story of one girl's desperation for survival. A Life Given To Me/Part Two 1982-2019 Lowell Massachusetts: From Victim, to Statistic, to Survivor, her continuing life story 
and the heartbreaking reality into her search for answers. 
Understanding Childhood Trauma, Do You Understand It Now? Coming in September 2023.