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Dr. Heyward Ewart ( Rev. Fr.) has devoted nearly 30 years of his professional life to the protection and treatment of women, children, and the family. During the President Jimmy Carter Administration, he served the White House Conference on Families, and such leadership continues to this day.
He is not only a veteran clinician in the mental-health field but also a distinguished academic. As President of St. James the Elder Theological Seminary, he provides hands-on supervision of students in the doctoral-level counseling program. He also serves as Academic Dean of this distance-learning institution, which is open to all denominations.
A Diplomate of the American College of Forensic Examiners, he has served as an expert trial witness in several states. He has also conducted continuing education at the University of North Florida and University Hospital of Jacksonville, FL.
A much sought-after public speaker, Dr. Ewart is a commanding presenter who speaks with great passion on the issues of abused women and children. He has hosted and appeared as a guest on many TV and radio programs in major markets, a love that dates back to his original career as a radio and TV news announcer.
In 2001, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Catholic Charismatic Church, Diocese of St. Anthony.
He is a published poet, and his hobbies also include photography, singing, drama, and social activities of all kinds.
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">"A tour de force of the tortured landscape of child abuse and its pernicious long-term outcomes. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Numerous case studies are expertly intertwined with theoretical insights to produce the equivalent of a comprehensive and unconventional treatment modality. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">The author demonstrates the direct and indirect pathways from single or multiple identity-shaping events of sexual, physical, and psychological maltreatment in childhood to self-abuse and the preponderance of self-destructive and self-defeating behaviors in later adult life. Equally, certain personality disorders are known to be the sad consequences of child abuse. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Social phenomena such as domestic violence and delinquency inevitably follow. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Those who are supposed to tackle such malignant outgrowths - most notably mental health practitioners and social workers - are rarely up to the task. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">This book is an important contribution towards the edification of victims and institutions alike. Thank you for sharing this really fascinating work with me.<span> "<br />—Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., author of <font face="Times New Roman"><em>Malignant Self-love - Narcissism Revisited</em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></font></span></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><br />“This book should be compulsory reading for anyone dealing with abused<br />children or abused adults, or adult survivors of childhood abuse.”<br />—Robert Rich, PhD, M.A.P.S, A.A.S.H.</p>