It Takes a Journey to Heal

Third Eye Books Presents Portland Author & Community Healer Javelin Hardy. It Takes a Journey to Heal is a Woman’s Right of Passage transitioning from a girl to Woman to a Queen. About The Author My name is Javelin Hardy. I was born and raised in a small town called Minden, Louisiana. I now reside in Portland, Oregon the past 30 years. I began my journey of writing when I was seven years old as I searched for answers about things beyond my imagination that I saw with the eyes of a seven year old child; family dysfunctions, abuse and drug addictions. Writing became my sanctuary. I ventured out as I got older and pursued a degree in social work. I took sociology and psychology classes and read a lot of self-help books. I saw counselors who could not related to the things I was trying to express-trapped as a woman by what the little girl inside me had seen and suffered from. It was not until I started studying how drugs and alcohol causes turmoil in families that I understood why I ha