Book: Success From the Inside Out
How do you rise from the pain of your past into a fulfilling future?
Nona Jones was licensed into ministry at the age of seventeen and was appointed to her first executive role with a Fortune 100 company at the age of twenty-three. But, after building a career and ministry that appeared outwardly successful, the trauma of childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse left her feeling trapped within the trappings of success. In her highly anticipated memoir Success from the Inside Out, Nona uses her story to share the redeeming power of faith in God so we can all discover a success that fills instead of a success that empties.
Nona Jones
When Nona’s mother found out she was pregnant with her, she cried. She didn’t want the burden of a child and, even though she was married to Nona’s father who wanted a child, she didn’t want to be a mother. When Nona’s father passed away two-months shy of her second birthday, her mother moved to a new state to be with a man she barely knew. After a string of boyfriends over a two year period, she settled with a guy who became her live-in boyfriend. And that’s when the abuse began.
When Nona was just 5-years-old, her mother’s boyfriend began hugging her when her mother wasn’t around; holding her too close to his body and too tightly for too long. Although she was too young to understand what he was doing, it scared her enough to make her start locking her bedroom door when her mother worked late at night. But she learned at that young age that a straightened wire hanger could pick the lock.
At first Nona told her mother what he did to her and her mother had him arrested. But one day her mother took her outside and said she needed his money in the house to pay bills and said she was bringing him back home. At 7 years-old, Nona learned that nothing she said mattered, so when the abuse started again, she stayed silent. And for four years, she pretended she was invisible.
