How she chooses to defy and transcend her past is in sharp contrast to Oughton, who seems unable to own up to the horror he has inflicted upon the lives of so many.

Although I do not always agree with her politics, I admire her courage and vulnerability, and envy her ability to bring such overwhelming emotion and disquieting memories to the page. It touched my heart, and opened my mind to so much, including Chile’s past and the life’s of migrants in North America. The book opens as Aguirre is in an acting class in Vancouver and has a flashback to being raped when she was thirteen.Aguirre’s first memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, describes her participation in Chile’s radical left resistance to Pinochet. And what is terrific is that while it reveals many details of Aguirre’s life, in particular her coming to grips with how the rape affected her, there’s no doubt enough unwritten material to comprise another volume sometime in the future. C. Performers 2011 Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award, the 2012 Langara College Outstanding Alumnae Award, and has been nominated for the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and the prestigious Siminovitch Prize.

He said that he felt he could release the pressure of worrying about the situation by hiring the PI, and that was his intention for just hiring someone else to deal with it. The author's life as a teenager was not focused on here, since that was portayed in detail in "Something Fierce". A good consultant, coach, or counselor should be able to be highly adaptive to the client’s needs as challenges arise. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

As a business consultant, I was casually aware of James’ engagement to Maria, and they have been cohabitating for a year since becoming engaged. Fierce, funny and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of life and love. Radio Active 7:55 Author Carmen Aguirre on racism in the film industry and childhood trauma Carmen Aguirre always wanted to be an actor, and to do that she had deal first with trauma in her childhood. Her attendance at parole board hearings and the support family she developed through this was a heart warming part of her recovery story.

This was an incredibly powerful, heart wrenching and heart warming, intimate book about how Carmen Aguirre dealt with the after effects and the long term impact of a brutal rape as a child. What are you willing to do, how far are you willing to go, what are you willing to give up for something you believe in.My wish for her is that the worst is over and that she can enjoy her many successes as a very accomplished author and theatre artist. There were spells of crying every night; there were spells of physical violence toward her partners. Six months ago, a business consulting client of mine comes in for his regularly scheduled appointment and says, “I almost married a Mexican hooker! At the same hearing, Oughton told the room that he'd grown up with buckteeth and that kids made fun of him for that.

As Aguirre’s body becomes the repository of many kinds of violence, acting means resilience for the actress. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. How she took the risk of a personal meeting with her rapist many decades later, just reiterates what a brave person she is and this shows in the writing of this memoir.I think this might be the first ever biographical work I have read and after a diet of plot driven, easy to read crime novels for 20 years. James thought he had felt a mysterious disconnection in their relationship, so he had decided to hire a Private Investigator. She left Chile at 6, a bit early to know what your political convictions will be, even though she certainly knew what Pinochet's regime was able to do. Presumably the wells of emotion and dedication fostered by her family, especially her mother and her stepfather, have helped created this person of profound feeling and strength. For those who've suffered trauma at the hands of someone else, daydreams of retribution can be a salve.