Sue Scarborough
Sue Scarborough’s coming of age story—centered in the Green Swamp of Central Florida in the 1960s—echoes a real-life version of Where the Crawdads Sing. The area was rugged, dangerous, and isolating. Much like the Wild West, the swamp, was a lawless untamed frontier, with shootouts, robberies, abuse, wild animals, and wildfires.
Drowning in guilt, shame, and fear of her gun-toting father’s explosive brutality, Scarborough also feared the unwritten rules of society and the judgement that came her way due to her intuitive introversion. As a teen and young adult, she rarely lifted her head to make eye contact with others and became mute for a while in her freshman year of high school.
Scarborough carried the trauma of her childhood into adulthood. Religion created a diversion, for a while, of her life¬long search for God and meaning. Then, during a dark night of the soul, Sue experienced a life-changing glance of the Other Side that opened her to a path of spiritual discoveries. Seeking answers to her life’s many challenges, she experiences spiritual awakenings, receiving messages of love and acceptance through light energy, guides, and the spirits that surround and sometimes save her.
Scarborough’s memoir is a courageous story of at-first hopelessness, followed by her Near Death Experience (NDE); a vision in a dream; a family tragedy; and the unexpected way a miracle list was fulfilled. Along the way, she shares the stories of spiritual teachers who became a part of her life, including a psychic, a medium, a pranic healer, and a natal astrologer. Her stories reveal dimensions that are joyful, healing, and aided her in putting life’s pieces together like completing a puzzle.
Written with honesty and insight, Scarborough’s memoir explores what it means to be both human and divine as she explains: Everything happened for me, not to me. I was no longer a victim of my circumstances. Both my consciousness and personal reality were shifting. Suffering has the potential to uplevel us and can be a catalyst for profound transformation. Every step on my life’s path had a purpose. Often, the darkest and deepest challenges are experienced by those who can rise to the highest timelines. To the extent that you have known pain, you can know joy at that same contrasting level.
Born in Winter Haven, Florida, in 1954, Scarborough received her bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Georgia in 1980 and her master’s degree in counseling from Webster University in 2001. She spent 25 years in the educational field: as a teacher, a principal of a school for teen parents and their children, a community liaison for adult education, and for a decade as a school district grant writer. She has also been a hospice volunteer, stroke liaison, caregiver, and is a Reiki Master. She is forever a student of the Divine.
