Racing With My Shadow The Compelling True Story of America First Leading Female Jockey eBook Karen Rogers
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This gripping autobiography about the personal and professional life of one of the first successful female jockeys takes the reader on a wild ride of both tragedy and triumph. Experience the highs and lows in the life of a leading jockey as well as understand the pain and despair of a dysfunctional childhood and the addictions and toxic relationships it fosters. This psychological journey, which is fast-paced, captivating, honest, and entertaining, inspires hope for those who have endured a difficult past.
Racing With My Shadow The Compelling True Story of America First Leading Female Jockey eBook Karen Rogers
This is a remarkable and absorbing story, well-written in taut and smoothly cadenced prose that pulled me in and kept me turning pages, chapter after chapter.“Racing With My Shadow” is much more than a good read and an account of extreme talent and high achievement as a pioneering race rider. This is a story about one woman’s strength of spirit, resilience, and eventual triumph in the face of great emotional and physical distress. Even more, this is a portrait of a mother’s non-judgmental love and a celebration of how that enduring love did much to enable a suffering daughter’s eventual insight and healing.
As someone who has watched thousands of races and knew the family during Karen’s mid-teens, the revelations in “Racing With My Shadow” speak to questions I had during her riding career. Karen was one of the most intensely competitive athletes I have known, but at times I cringed while watching her take chances that appeared to me to be reckless and unusually dangerous. Those impetuous moments are now explained to me when Karen writes in Chapter 16 that “my career was my only reason for living,” and “I didn’t really care if I lived or died.” In this regard, the book could also be titled “Racing From My Shadow.”
For me, Karen’s book is most important in portraying the lasting effects of sexual abuse on children, a national scourge and disgrace. Approximately 20% of girls (and 10% of boys) under the age of 18 experience some form of sexual abuse that affects them and makes their lives more difficult or that contributes to their suicide. This evil will not be sufficiently addressed and snuffed until great light is shined on its prevalence and on the resulting and commonly debilitating effects, including damaged feelings of self-worth, low self-esteem, anxiety disorders, and difficulties in forming satisfying and lasting relationships.
Karen’s courage and willingness to speak out about her experience, struggles, and her eventual ride to what she calls “freedom” may inspire others to do the same. With enough exposure, we may yet change national priorities and focus effectively on education and prevention. We may even achieve an America where sexual assault or abuse can be reduced to a miniscule occurrence. Thank you, Karen Rogers !
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Racing With My Shadow The Compelling True Story of America First Leading Female Jockey eBook Karen Rogers Reviews
Karen,
It's rare for me to read a book that has been recommended to me, or from just picking it up by chance, as I am not the avid reader.
Nevertheless, I found your work difficult to put down at times, as there was compelling draw right from the first page.
Although I've never successfully ridden a horse, let alone been a professional winning jockey, there were countless ways I was able to relate to you within your story - especially searching for validation & love from loveless sources.
I found myself emotional when you were suffering, and rooting for you as though the story was live, and even depressed for days as my own issues surfaced. I know I'm not alone when I say that each of us has felt betrayed, anguished, full of anger, vices and have even contemplated suicidal.
But thanks be to All-Mighty-God, who leads us in his Triumph, that allowed you to discover the truth, show you His mercies & grace, and in time give you a brand new life, happiness, and especially courage to write your story.
Thank you, Karen. You've changed met life by Having the courage to write about yours.
Matthew Behne
This is a heartbreaking and ultimately heartwarming story, so compelling that it's hard to pause. I didn't want to put it down, but read it in about four sittings. Although it's over 400 pages, it is well written and keeps moving. The author reveals intimate thoughts, feelings and episodes that draw the reader into her life and story. The reader doesn't need to bring familiarity with the world of horse racing to appreciate her amazing success as a young female jockey. Her underlying self destructive relationships and actions, as well as her later understanding, can be universally appreciated. I was sorry to turn the last page on this autobiography, and I hope we see a second volume someday from Karen Rogers.
Not only does Karen take you behind the scenes of the sport of horse racing and her fascinating trek to become America’s first leading female jockey, but she also courageously interweaves her story of childhood abuse and many years of pain that followed. This book will be particularly helpful for victims of abuse that have known the torment of manipulators that caused intense mental conflict. As Karen recounts the many traumatic events in her life, she gives an inspiring testimony of how God sustained her and led her to restoration. This book will encourage those that have endured similar heartbreaking experiences and give them hope that there is life after the pain, through the healing power of God. Mary Lou Lake
Here is someone who was so talented and admired to the outside world, yet so tormented and crushed in her private life. This book takes you by the hand and leads you down the road to hell, where you watch the innocence and trust ripped away from the author time and time again. It covers the gamut of child abuse (both emotional and physical), as well as drug and alcohol addiction in a way that only someone involved in it would be able to put into words. Those who have never experienced the throes of addiction may not believe that all they read could actually have taken place, but those who live with this nightmare in their lives have will be nodding their heads in agreement. Addiction is ugly and it spares no one that dares to stand in its destructive path. It takes plenty of prisoners, and leaves no one unscathed. It took a lot of guts to not only live through these experiences and write about them, but to have the courage to set them to print so that others can see what it is really like to live with abuse.
This is the first (and probably will be the only) autobiography I've ever read where I actually know the author. This book is written in such a way that it does not talk down to the reader, and I appreciated the explanations of the equestrian terms that I would not have otherwise known. It is a must-read for anyone who suffers from abuse or knows someone who does, because it will give them hope.
This is a remarkable and absorbing story, well-written in taut and smoothly cadenced prose that pulled me in and kept me turning pages, chapter after chapter.
“Racing With My Shadow” is much more than a good read and an account of extreme talent and high achievement as a pioneering race rider. This is a story about one woman’s strength of spirit, resilience, and eventual triumph in the face of great emotional and physical distress. Even more, this is a portrait of a mother’s non-judgmental love and a celebration of how that enduring love did much to enable a suffering daughter’s eventual insight and healing.
As someone who has watched thousands of races and knew the family during Karen’s mid-teens, the revelations in “Racing With My Shadow” speak to questions I had during her riding career. Karen was one of the most intensely competitive athletes I have known, but at times I cringed while watching her take chances that appeared to me to be reckless and unusually dangerous. Those impetuous moments are now explained to me when Karen writes in Chapter 16 that “my career was my only reason for living,” and “I didn’t really care if I lived or died.” In this regard, the book could also be titled “Racing From My Shadow.”
For me, Karen’s book is most important in portraying the lasting effects of sexual abuse on children, a national scourge and disgrace. Approximately 20% of girls (and 10% of boys) under the age of 18 experience some form of sexual abuse that affects them and makes their lives more difficult or that contributes to their suicide. This evil will not be sufficiently addressed and snuffed until great light is shined on its prevalence and on the resulting and commonly debilitating effects, including damaged feelings of self-worth, low self-esteem, anxiety disorders, and difficulties in forming satisfying and lasting relationships.
Karen’s courage and willingness to speak out about her experience, struggles, and her eventual ride to what she calls “freedom” may inspire others to do the same. With enough exposure, we may yet change national priorities and focus effectively on education and prevention. We may even achieve an America where sexual assault or abuse can be reduced to a miniscule occurrence. Thank you, Karen Rogers !
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