Situational crisis started the ‘Writing a memoir’ project as it led to an unexpected change in identity; from an Australian educator to Centrelink’s jobseeker, JSID 8585616409. Contrary to my expectations, the project’s completion went beyond the expected two years’ time as the Wheels of Fortune stopped its turn midway, hurling me further down the abysmal cliff of misfortunes. Extending my invitation to investigative journalists to examine the truthfulness in my life writing, I would like to emphasize on the main purpose of my project; connecting with my readers as I take them with me on an imaginative journey or similar journeys.
That memoir writing is healing and transformative is undeniable. With the compositional process ending, I feel empowered, and the instrumentality of lessons learned has helped me call a truce with myself and strengthen my resilience. If through my struggle story I endow my readers with insightful reflections about people and life besides mental gymnastics, I will consider myself blessed.
When the axe falls, seldom do the unprepared know how to embrace unwelcome changes and react on a roller-coaster of fury and forlornness. Finding themselves on the threshold of impoverishment with limited options to explore, and a victim of villainous schemes, they find survival an impossibility. Familial responsibilities become burdensome, with no one to approach for abet and nowhere to go to escape the blow. Stuck in a rut, finding the new stressors enhancing their existential concerns, they re-live their nightmares and question their choices, decisions, values, and sense of self, hoping to come to terms with their actualities.
‘A Recusant’s A memoir’ is a factual account of how Dr. Neetha Joseph bit on the bullet to endure a crisis synonymous with the unsuspecting sufferers. What solutions will the author gamble on to emerge scatheless in such unprecedented situations? Will she triumph in liberating herself from the clutches of conformists? Will she use her experiences and reflections to haul herself out of the deep chasm of humiliation caused by organizations adopting mafia-like strategies including its secondary stakeholders and into the vortex of enlightenment? Dr. Neetha Joseph has recorded her struggles with earnestness in her veracious, heart wrenching, compelling, and thought-provoking personal chronicle.
Proprietor/CEO of Wordmagic Publishing (https://wordmagicpublishing.com.au) and Author of 'Pneuma', 'The Aeon of Improbable Scams', 'I am Audacious', 'The Esoteric Lives of Fleurs De Lys', and 'A Recusant's Incarnation: A Memoir', Dr Neetha Joseph is a publisher member of Copyright Agency, a member of Australian Society of Authors, a non-paying member of Australian Writer's Guild and Writing NSW. An Australian citizen, Dr Neetha Joseph has worked in Sydney as a full-time permanent Teacher for 15 years in NSW DOE secondary schools. Currently a qualified professional (NSW Librarian Grade 1) in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Records sector having completed Graduate Diploma in Information and Library studies, Curtin University and Certificate III Business (Records and Information Management) from The College for Adult Learning, she is also a member of Australian Library Information Association, Record of Information Management Practitioners Alliance Global, Australian Society of Archivists, and ISACA. Having obtained her tertiary qualification in Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education from University of Technology Sydney, Sydney and Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2004 from Bharathiar University, India for her research on ‘Existentialism in the Select Novels of Anita Desai', Dr Neetha Joseph is an active blogger (https://neethajosephblog.com/) and a researcher. She worked as a Lecturer in English for six and a half years in esteemed Indian institutions such as Tiruppur Kumaran College for women, Government Arts College Ooty, and L.R.G Government Arts College for Women. She commenced her teaching career at a residential school, Bhartiya Vidhya Mandir, Pollachi, India in 1996. She was schooled at Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore, India. Born in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India on 11th April 1974 to south Indian upper middle class Roman Catholic parents and brought up in Coimbatore, Dr Neetha Joseph migrated to Australia in 2003 and is the proud mother of a young adult.