About Teresa

Teresa Moyer was raised to be a compliant child by a controlling and critical mother and an often distant father. In a new release, Broken and Restored (Redemption Press), Teresa Moyer recounts being trapped in destructive sexual, emotional, and mental abuse by a sexually deviant boy in third grade. This set the stage for years of control, abuse, and further rejection.

 

Teresa shares her story of feeling unacceptable at home, school, work, church, and in relationships. Hungry for acceptance, Teresa turned to food and alcohol for comfort. Obesity became a refuge. Throughout her life, her high-functioning form of autism, Asperger’s, led her to process relationships differently and experience more rejection. Not until the chains binding her to the approval of her mother were broken after her mother’s death did Teresa begin to fully let the light of Christ fully into the rooms of her life.

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Broken and Restored tells how Teresa Moyer has experienced God’s healing of one hurt, one memory at a time. Anyone who has felt “less than,” or has been hiding behind food or alcohol addiction, or has memories of pain and trauma will resonate with this candid memoir. Acceptance for the person God made you to be can be found.

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​Teresa Moyer has an associate’s degree in religion from Salem Bible College and a BS in Christian counseling from Eugene Bible College. She has worked in health care for thirty-five years as a certified nursing assistant in nursing homes, mostly on Alzheimer’s units and in group homes with the intellectually and developmentally disabled population. A resident of Albany, Oregon, she enjoys reading, drawing, and painting, and her favorite pets are cats.