"Life is a long and adverse journey. Within that journey is the continuous process of choice and change. Deciding to forgive yourself and letting go of the negative aspects of your past is the start of real victory, true happiness, and achievable success." (ETDP).
I am Theresa D. Pettaway, Founder & CEO of Wisediscerner Network, a group of Christian faith-based for profit and nonprofit businesses and organizations. I am a minister, teacher, entrepreneur, international author and poet, personal empowerment blogger, master coach, and mentor.
I am a victorious overcomer of the negative experiences of my youth, which included sexual molestation, shame, anger, low self-esteem, unforgiveness, hopelessness, and depression. Writing allowed me to express my thoughts and feelings about what I was experiencing which resulted in the creation of Wisediscerner Books in January 1982. As a victorious overcomer, my vision and mission is to empower other women and young girls weighed down by past negative experiences to confidently rise up and soar above their hardships and adversities. God has expanded my mission to include men and young boys. All will be accomplished through my writing with God's help and guidance.
As the premiere author of Wisediscerner Books & Publications, I believe that my writings must minister love, peace, hope, and joy to my readers because my thoughts and ideas come from the place of unconditional love, perfect peace, abiding hope, and unspeakable joy—HEAVEN!