Life Soup by Pamela Lynn France is a skillfully woven memoir of recovery from childhood emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Her tale is more powerful through taking the reader on her journey through recovering lost memories, healing and forgiving through professional help, family and the gospel of Jesus Christ. We learn gradually the extent of the abuse and the mental and emotional impact on Pamela’s inner child, who “was lost in the deepest parts of my soup”(vi). And we finally see how Pamela is successful in “[f]inding her, knowing her, accepting and loving her” (vi).
Flashbacks, memories and photographs make Pamela’s childhood and family come alive, while poems, anecdotes, scriptures, psychological and psychotherapeutic explanations deepen the understanding of what Pamela experienced. Her later memories of adulthood experiences and trials shed further light on her loss and the help she learned to provide for herself which she did not receive in her childhood. Despite the serious topic, Pamela excels with threading hope throughout the work.
Life Soup was hard to put down. While I have not experienced abuse, this book opened my eyes to the experiences that many have, made me cry, made me think and most of all inspired me. I would recommend this book to anyone who is personally striving to heal from the effects of abuse, trauma, neglect or other painful struggles, and to those who seek to find and take care of their own inner child. This book will also be helpful for those who work with individuals who have suffered similarly, or who have family members or friends who have likewise suffered.
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