Tender resilience
Subtitle: By Beatrice Beth Baikan, Ph. D.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: B. B. Baikan
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Baikan, Beatrice Beth.; Malaysia -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: This book is a vivid and intensely moving account of the triumph of the human spirit over almost insurmountable odds.  Born to a dysfunctional family, Beth suffered physical and emotional abuse even to the extent of formal disowning by her family.  Struggling against, poverty, rejection, legal bureaucracy , she managed to access her inner strength to come up , not only as a survivor, but as an outstanding achiever—obtaining scholarship and a Ph.D degree fron one of America’s ivy league universities (Cornell) and later on successfully establishing her own thriving consultancy.  What is even greater is her ability to forgive her family, her tenacious trust in God and her developing an extraordinarily deep spirituality.  The title of her book “Tender Resilience”expresses the quality of her spirit that permeates every chapter of her book as it did every phase of her life