Background
Gari Carter was born on March 29, 1940, in Baltimore and grew up in Maryland and Connecticut. Her father, Tilghman Goldsborough Pitts, was an insurance executive, and her mother, Mai Norris Garesche Dick, was an artist.
2500 Rivermont Ave, Lynchburg, VA 24503, United States
Gari Carter graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
Gari Carter studied at Johns Hopkins University.
Charlottesville, VA, United States
Gari Carter attended the University of Virginia.
14 Old Chapel Rd, Middlebury, VT 05753, United States
Middlebury College became one more place where Carter was getting education.
Gari Carter with her children.
(Healing Myself is the story of one woman's successful bat...)
Healing Myself is the story of one woman's successful battle to rise above pain and despair. But it's about more than pain. It's about the elation she felt as she gained control of her suffering. It's about the lessons she learned from hard experience-lessons in patience, love, and proper priorities. Perhaps most astoundingly, it's about her discovery of a series of commercially-produced audio pain-control tapes that changed her multiple-hour operations from ordeals to be dreaded into challenges to be met calmly and confidently-without anesthetics.
https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Myself-Primer-Recovery-Trauma/dp/1878901753
1993
(Buried for years in family files, this important firsthan...)
Buried for years in family files, this important firsthand Civil War account of Franklin Dick's experiences as Missouri assistant adjunct general and provost marshal general gives a new view of politics, power, and divided loyalties in the state of Missouri. It is filled with the intrigue and emotion of major Civil War figures Nathaniel Lyon, Montgomery Blair, John C. Fremont, and Abraham Lincoln, Troubled State is a new resource for library collections, historians, and Civil War buffs.
https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-State-Journals-Franklin-Archibald/dp/1931112746
2008
Gari Carter was born on March 29, 1940, in Baltimore and grew up in Maryland and Connecticut. Her father, Tilghman Goldsborough Pitts, was an insurance executive, and her mother, Mai Norris Garesche Dick, was an artist.
Gari Carter graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Then she studied at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, and Middlebury College.
Gari Carter started working as an office manager and translator at the embassy of Bolivia in Washington. Besides, she held positions at the Embassy of France.
In a year, she moved to Virginia and became a teacher of French and Spanish. Carter taught in a number of schools of the state till 1976. Her teaching activity was followed by creating her own business. In 1976 she founded and managed for years a successful clothing and gift shop Orangerie.
In 1982 Carter's life changed abruptly, as she describes in her first book, Healing Myself. Gari and her eleven-year-old son were driving to a gift show to find more items for her shop before her next buying trip to New York, when they were hit head-on by a car in a snowstorm. Gari’s son had learned CPR the week before in Cub Scouts, and he revived his unconscious mother as she was having a near-death experience. Gari’s next ten years were spent in facial surgical reconstruction, using the Monroe Institute’s audio Surgical Support Series to control pain without anesthesia and medication. In 1993 Carter published the book Healing Myself where she has described the whole story of her recovery.
Carter's next book, Troubled State: The Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick, took her ten years of research about the diaries of her great-great-grandfather, his first-hand account of the initial Civil War event in St. Louis, and his correspondence with President Lincoln as Provost Marshall General of Missouri.
Gari has finished researching and writing about the Civil War journal of her great-grandfather Col. William James Leonard, leader of Maryland’s Purnell Legion. He was captured and incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond. The book, titled The Bone Ring, is named for an heirloom still in her family: the ring that Col. Leonard’s men carved him for his birthday from the leftover bones of their food.
From 1985 to 1988 Carter was administrator working for Frontier Airlines in Denver.
(Buried for years in family files, this important firsthan...)
2008(Healing Myself is the story of one woman's successful bat...)
1993Quotations: "When I communicate with people now, I feel I am communicating with their souls instead of in a superficial way. I have learned to relax more during situations I can’t change. I look more at the big picture of life instead of trivialities. I try to bless everyone in my path and see them blessing me. If I am stuck in traffic or in a line at the supermarket, I do yoga breathing and look around to see who I might need to connect with instead of becoming angry and frustrated. I look to see who the person really is."
Gari is a brave woman whose survival and recovery after the car accident are miraculous. She has dedicated her life to the encouragement of others who have suffered similar tragedies.
Carter's first marriage finally crumbled after the car accident. She has two children in it: a son and a daughter. After the recovery, she has become engaged for a second time.