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At the start of her divorce, Meredith Hawkins began writing to cope with her feelings of heartache and loss, not knowing at the time where it would lead. Her subsequent journey would prove to be one of introspection and healing. In When the Tears Dry, Hawkins weaves her personal trials into a powerful narrative of the unfiltered stories and life struggles she witnessed while serving the unhoused on the streets of Arizona and Africa. Far from playing the victim, Hawkins relates the many lessons she learned from her career in social work to illustrate how to get up, dust yourself off, and carry…mehr

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At the start of her divorce, Meredith Hawkins began writing to cope with her feelings of heartache and loss, not knowing at the time where it would lead. Her subsequent journey would prove to be one of introspection and healing. In When the Tears Dry, Hawkins weaves her personal trials into a powerful narrative of the unfiltered stories and life struggles she witnessed while serving the unhoused on the streets of Arizona and Africa. Far from playing the victim, Hawkins relates the many lessons she learned from her career in social work to illustrate how to get up, dust yourself off, and carry on. Both raw and uplifting, Hawkins' empowering memoir shows us how to live, love and laugh again.
Autorenporträt
Meredith Hawkins has devoted her career to the field of social work, working with children and adolescents within the Arizona foster care system and mental health system as a child and family therapist. She is the founder and director of GIVE: Girls who Inspire, Volunteer and Empower, an organization devoted to helping connect women to volunteer opportunities within their community and in Africa. She was the recipient of the Volunteer of the Year Award by the Phoenix Rescue Mission in 2014 and the recipient of the MASK Unity Finalist Award for Mothers Making a Difference in 2015. When not writing, she enjoys hiking, skiing and scuba diving. She lives in Arizona and Utah with her son.