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Charlotte

"Stop the Abuse

About Me

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BIO
Charlotte Russell Johnson is a writer, motivational speaker, and Christian evangelist. She gained national fame following the release of her first novel A Journey to Hell and Back. It has sold more than 35,000 copies. In recent years, Ms. Johnson has penned five additional books: Daddy’s Hugs, Grace Under Fire: The Journey Never Ends, The Flipside, Mama May I, and In The Lord’s Eyes: Mama’s Pearls.
At the tender age of three, her father died unexpectedly. At fifteen, she had her first child and at eighteen, she became a victim of domestic violence. Struggling with feelings of blame, shame, and guilt, she journeyed on a destructive path that nearly destroyed her. Ultimately, hitting bottom emotionally, Ms. Johnson believed the only way to change her destructive lifestyle was to help prevent others from making the same mistakes. Putting her plan into action, she enrolled in college and pursued a pardon from the governor of the state of Georgia. She has a BS in Health Science from Columbus State University where she graduated Phi Kappa Phi and magna cum laude. In pursuit of higher education, she earned a Master’s degree in Counseling from Troy State University. She has also attended the graduate programs of Southern Christian University and Beacon University. However, she states that her GED remains her proudest degree.
She has had an active prison ministry for more than sixteen years. Her work has encompassed helping inmates, victims of AIDS, teenage mothers, welfare recipients, and substance abusers. Her passion remains to help others make the transition from victim to victor.
Ms. Johnson has toured numerous states with her books. She has also spoken extensively at colleges, universities, civic organizations, prisons, and churches.
What Charlotte Russell Johnson Will Do For Your Event:
· Provide an exciting, dynamic, practical, & spiritually uplifting presentation.
· Create a comfortable learning environment where each participant can discover new ideas in an entirely non-threatening atmosphere. There is no forced dialoguing, confrontation, or lengthy periods of writing
Ms. Johnson’s presentations are spiritually inspiring, uplifting, thought provoking, passionate, and laced with humor to instill hope for individuals dealt the hand of mental, physical, emotional, social, and sexual abuse. Her passion is to help others make the transition from victims to victors.
Charlotte Russell Johnson
Now Available Book #6
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This book is a very poignant chronicle of the faith, wit, and down home charm of Ms. Johnson’s mother, Evelyn Russell. Loyal fans of Ms. Johnson have already developed a feeling of closeness to her mother, affectionately called “Mother Russell”. Throughout Ms. Johnson’s books, her mother serves as a spiritual mentor teaching her about love and redemption through her selfless love. Mother Russell loves, when it seems that her daughter is beyond change and is unwilling to embrace her mother’s instructions.
These stories offer inspiration, encouragement, hope, and motivation. Most importantly, these oral traditions serve as method of handing down the wisdom of times past. Mama’s Pearls is reminiscent of Alex Haley’s Roots, as Ms. Johnson explores her family’s past in order to bring light and perspective to the present. http:www.reachingbeyond.net

My Interests

Stopping Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse, Recidivism,and AIDS

Books:


A Journey to Hell & Back has sold more than 35,000 copies. The book is a gripping saga of a young woman's journey from adolescence to adulthood at an accelerated pace. It is an exploration of a troubled teen's journey into the underworld to emerge as an independent and self-assured woman. Pitfalls, tragedy, and trials lure an honor student into the streets of Atlanta and New York. After God saved her from a life of sin, her zeal for God resulted in her making additional mistakes, including renewing the abusive relationship that had almost cost her life. Each layer of hell corresponds with a new low in the protagonist's life.


  • Daddy's Hugs' major premise is that the role of fathers is essential to promote healthy child development and appropriate role modeling. Daddy’s Hugs offers striking commentary on the plight of fatherless children. Fathers are portrayed as more than financial breadwinners. Instead, they are depicted as essential emotional caregivers. The humorous vignettes make this book an easy read. The book is able to stray away from the common mistake of male bashing. The devaluation of the role of fathers and their inadequate preparation for this role is explored in-depth.



  • In The Flipside: A Journey to Hell and Back two separate individuals on parallel descents into hell collide violently, the force of which serves as a catalyst to accelerate their demise. Then just as all visible signs of hope evaporate, in a surprising plot twist surpassing Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the text evolves into a different direction.
    The Flip Side expands on the author’s previous text, A Journey to Hell and Back.It further explores the author’s life, while giving the parallel and sometimes contrasting account of her husband.


  • In Grace Under Fire, her writing evolves emotionally, as she continues to share the intimate and personal events in her life. Readers are able to view her innermost secrets and emotions. The reader is seduced by the lust of the characters for love and money, while secretly retaining a desire to see their ultimate redemption.
    The author is able to hold the reader spellbound and enchanted until the book’s surprise ending.


  • In Mama May I, after twenty-two years of battling addiction and multiple incarcerations, the family appears to have reached a state of calm. This is merely the calm prior to the greatest storm this family has ever faced. Just as the family begins to deal with the effects of years of institutionalization and the residual effects of chronic drug use, a surprise visitor arrives in town throwing the family into chaos. After a family secret and conspiracy is revealed, the reader along with Ms. Johnson is forced to reevaluate everything they have previously known about the family. As the plot progresses, the layers of the conspiracy are subtly exposed revealing a depth of sin and deceit reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The surprise ending will leave the reader questioning along with Ms. Johnson; "Can you ever really know someone?" One thing is very clear after reading this book. "All that glitter is not gold and every good-bye ain't gone."


    • Mama's Pearls     is a very poignant chronicle of the faith, wit, and the down home charm of Ms. Johnson’s mother, Evelyn Russell. Loyal fans of Ms. Johnson have already developed a feeling of closeness to her mother, affectionately called “Mother Russell.” Mother Russell loves, when it seems that her daughter is beyond change and is unwilling to embrace her mother’s instructions.
    Mother Russell is a paradox. She is both a spiritually mature student of the Bible, while maintaining her down home folksy charm, sharp tongue, and nostalgic stories of her youth that serve to entertain the reader.