Gene DeForest, host of Opinion Please at KMOK (106.9 FM) radio spoke with new Pleasant Word author Kathleen Marchant about her book, Fortress of the Heart, today, live and in studio!

Marchant was a teen victim of a sexual attack which forced a pivotal change in her life path. A divorced mother who struggled with depression, exhaustion, anxiety and migraine headaches often times not understanding why. During those years she built a wall, a fortress around her heart for protection. Stone by stone she built this wall so that she would no longer be humiliated or hurt. “But,” she says, “with the construction of this protection I had prevented myself from experiencing life as God intended it be experienced.”

In Fortress of the Heart, Marchant says she isn’t alone, that most hurting people “automatically start gathering stones. Sadly, once a person starts collecting stones it isn’t long before this becomes second nature to them.” She tells how she overcame this habit and tore down the walls of self-protection that she had built, now living with boundaries (a fence) rather than a fortress.

Marchant, who now lives in Idaho with her husband and college-age daughter, takes readers through her own personal process where a joyful existence transpires by healing with forgiveness, praying always, and loving others. With an open heart to God and to others, now she is able to say, “I have taken root; I am surviving and living a happy, worthwhile and purposeful life. I am now where I am supposed to be. I am very comfortable and at peace.”

To order your copy of Fortress of the Heart, please visit our WinePress Group online bookstore or call toll-free 877.421.READ (7323).