Product Description
Who hasn’t wondered why bad things happen to them? The Nancy Who Drew plants a seed of hope that our painful experiences can have a positive outcome when we are willing to see ourselves on more than one level.
The Nancy Who Drew is a memoir that solved a mystery. During the course of writing her book, delving deeper into her feelings as well as the events that occurred, Nancy discovered a clue that would completely alter her perception of why things happened the way that they did.
This is the story of a shy and dreamy girl growing up in New York City in the 50s and 60s. When she is cruelly betrayed by her mother, Nancy flees to London to realize her dream of studying at RADA and becoming an actress in England. Upon her return home seven years later, disillusioned with acting and eager to start a new life as a painter, her mother confesses that she conceived Nancy “in revenge for World War II.”
Strangely, this resonates with Nancy, as if she has known it all along. She becomes an artist, exploring her subconscious through drawing and painting. But it isn’t until decades later when she begins to write her story that she discovers the meaning of the images. Putting everything together, including childhood drawings of a dead girl and dreams of death, she comes to a new understanding of why she might have “created her reality.”
By sifting through the clues in her own life, Nancy learns about a girl who was killed by the Nazis exactly six years and six months before the day she was born. Is this the girl who haunted her dreams in childhood? Is this the girl on her canvas? If it is, then her own life begins to make sense now.
Sometimes the only way to make sense of your life is to remember the one that came before. Nancy Wait offers an inspiring memoir about rising from abuse to become her soul’s intention. She realizes that she has been given the clues all along. Finally, connecting to a previous death, she comes to know that betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole.
The Nancy Who Drew is a memoir that solved a mystery. During the course of writing her book, delving deeper into her feelings as well as the events that occurred, Nancy discovered a clue that would completely alter her perception of why things happened the way that they did.
This is the story of a shy and dreamy girl growing up in New York City in the 50s and 60s. When she is cruelly betrayed by her mother, Nancy flees to London to realize her dream of studying at RADA and becoming an actress in England. Upon her return home seven years later, disillusioned with acting and eager to start a new life as a painter, her mother confesses that she conceived Nancy “in revenge for World War II.”
Strangely, this resonates with Nancy, as if she has known it all along. She becomes an artist, exploring her subconscious through drawing and painting. But it isn’t until decades later when she begins to write her story that she discovers the meaning of the images. Putting everything together, including childhood drawings of a dead girl and dreams of death, she comes to a new understanding of why she might have “created her reality.”
By sifting through the clues in her own life, Nancy learns about a girl who was killed by the Nazis exactly six years and six months before the day she was born. Is this the girl who haunted her dreams in childhood? Is this the girl on her canvas? If it is, then her own life begins to make sense now.
Sometimes the only way to make sense of your life is to remember the one that came before. Nancy Wait offers an inspiring memoir about rising from abuse to become her soul’s intention. She realizes that she has been given the clues all along. Finally, connecting to a previous death, she comes to know that betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole.
About the Author
Nancy Wait was born in Chicago and grew up in New York City. She studied acting at the High School of Performing Arts and Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh. In 1969 she went to London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and had a career in England during the 1970s, appearing in film, television and theater, under the name Nancie Wait. When she had a spiritual awakening in 1976, she decided it was time to return home. Back in New York she studied at the Art Students League and began a second career as a free-lance artist doing architectural renderings and portraits. She also painted from her imagination, and it was after her series of drowned people, and a second, even more powerful spiritual awakening in 1987, that she began to think of writing about her life. She went back to school to study writing, earning a B.A. from The New School and going on to Goddard College for an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction. However, it would be many more years before Nancy would complete her memoir, as new “clues” kept surfacing. Nancy has taught creative writing and art. She has worked for the Center for Peace Through Culture and was one of the founders of a group of artists called Brooklyn Visions. Since June, 2009, Nancy has been hosting a weekly Blog Talk Radio show called Art and Ascension where she interviews writers, artists and musicians. She reads from her own work as well as that of others. She believes that art can take us to places in the psyche that are inaccessible in any other way, and that we grow and expand in consciousness when we can express our deepest selves through art. For it is there we dispel the shadows and bring through the light of understanding to those hidden areas. Her slogan is, “Betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole,” because she has found through personal experience that there is always a reason why things happen if we look deep enough. Sometimes we may have to go back to a previous life, or even a previous death, to discover the meaning of our lives. The quest that beckoned Nancy, how to keep the heart open even when you’ve been betrayed, has allowed her to keep trusting. Nancy discovered the answer to her own mystery. She hopes that others will be inspired by her story to perhaps look at their own lives a bit differently. For it is not so much what happens to us, as how we deal with it. She is currently working on a collection of stories called “Angels In Park Slope.”
