Sexually abused author says, I am “Broken but Beautiful” in new book

As the world grabbles with the scourge of rape and child molestation, young Nigerian author, Vera Alex has narrated how she was sexually abused consistently by her uncle at the age of seven and the effect of the abuse on her life.

In her book titled “Broken But Beautiful”, which was presented to the public in Lagos on Saturday, the graduate of Immerse Coaching Company, said her life was a both “a mess and a wreck” as a young woman growing up with such horrible experience.

The author, in her speech at the occasion, revealed that at the age of seven, “I was raped by my own uncle and continuously molested for years.

It was so bad that I failed terribly academically and no one was able to paint any form of success in my future.
“I was rejected by everyone around me. My friends weren’t my friends.

I had extremely busy parents. They were trying to give us the financially free life. You definitely can’t blame them.”

Concluding that she felt she didn’t have any potential of something good in her, Vera repeated that her life was a mess and a wreck.

“I was blamed time and again for things I did and didn’t do and in the midst of it all, life taught me to keep quiet. Don’t talk about it!

“I am the least likely to be where I am right now and it’s not even close to the beginning of the impact I’m about to make,” she said with determination.

“I wrote this book on the details of my life experience. I have also started to coach people that had so much negativity and failure in their past.

“From my experience in coaching, I have seen how negative voices from the past start to display and dictate a future if we don’t face them squarely and rather try to block them out because we think we have gotten over them.”

On why she started her coaching school, the young author emphasised that the need to fall in love with oneself was the first step to success hence the coaching centered on training people to accept and love themselves.

“I love to see people love hence my coaching. I coach people to learn the art of dating themselves so that they can see the real deep beauty they have absolutely never seen in themselves.

“I teach them to fall in love with themselves and place a high value on their lives by this beauty,” she concluded.