Me, Marsha Marie

It's ready!!! If you think hard enough about your life, a thousand ideas will come to mind that you want to share with the world. Things that you know that others would benefit from somehow---if even only for a minuscule amount. Or perhaps things that would just be really great topics to sit around and talk about with friends or family. Well, I have a thousand of them, too. But in my latest ebook, 75+ Things I Learned Living 22 Years Abroad , I narrowed it down to just under a 100 or so. 75+ Things I Learned Living 22 Years Abroad , is an honest view about my life's lessons during my time living in Asia and the Middle East in my 22 years of self-exile. I think the most interesting thing about this book, was that I learned so much about myself. I took the time to really think about what I had learnt; and as a result, it has really shown me that I am who I am today because of these invaluable lessons. 75+ Things I Learned Living 22 Years Abroad , is availab...

Happy New Year! Did you know that next week is the ASK ME ANYTHING online event? It will be on February 4, 2018, at 7am Phoenix-time! Event title is: I lived a 14-year-self-exile in a Pakistani village to escape my abuser. I wrote a book telling my story. Ask me anything.     Get your questions in today! https://authorsama.com/i-lived-a-14-year-self-exile-in-a-pakistani-village-to-escape-my-abuser-i-471393 Here are a few of the questions that have been submitted already: Why didn’t you call the police instead of just hiding in Pakistan? How did you overcome all those experiences? If you were offered a TV or film adaptation of your life story, would you do it? Did you and your children need to learn a whole different language while staying in Pakistan? What is the best advice you can give to other battered wives and women who are victims of domestic abuse? How was it like living in seclusion for 14 years? Did you ever regret anythi...

Hi VIP Friends, This week I have added a new page to the website ( http://www.marshamarie.com/my-codex-vitae--my-book-of-life--.html ), the Codex Vitae. Now some may wonder what that is. Well, the Codex Vitae is a self-development framework. It goes like this: The rule is quite simple. Write down your beliefs. Make it a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly habit. Soon, your life will be more aligned with your worldview (a.k.a belief). Thus, you will be happier. I decided to take on this challenge and it was really interesting to sit and think about what I honestly believe about my life and the world around me. (I would challenge everyone to this activity; you might just learn something about yourself, too.)             My beliefs about…. Me: Commercials work on me. Always have. Always will. I am a work-a-holic, and proud of it. I have too many questions in life. I am too plump. Chocolate cupcakes are my kryptonite....

My editorial piece written for an Arizona newspaper: (Publish date TBD) In March of 2014, I ended a two-decade-long manhunt by turning myself in, to the authorities at the Phoenix International Airport. They had been looking for me, Marsha Marie. Who would have thought that this once class clown would have her whole life turned upside down by keeping her silence? I was being sought for two counts of custodial interference involving my own two small children. I left the county in 1991 to escape the control of an abusive ex-husband. But now I’m back and spreading the message to the world of what I feel was my number one mistake—keeping his secret. I was married for five years and suffered bruising and suffocating control, but, I kept his dirty secret from the world. I should have shouted from the rooftops of his abuse; but I chose to stay quiet, causing severe depression and almost suicide. I ultimately accepted an invitation that would change my life—leave the States and move to a...