After a long weekend away at CCI, observing people with no use of their arms or legs happily being trained to use guide dog assistance, he came home and resigned from his role with the writer's group. He couldn't believe the contrast. Since Trixie's death, the Koontz family have adopted Anna, a grand-niece of Trixie, who almost completed the CCI training, but had a fascination for chasing birds that made her a better pet than service dog.
Koontz also shared something intriguing he found out about his parentage. He found an article saved by his parents that explained about an artificial insemination medical research project done using poor families from his area in Pennsylvania about the time he was born.
He decided not to do DNA testing with his father before his death, as he decided it didn't matter to him. It remains a personal mystery for the mystery writer. As a family therapist, I am always interested in family of origin stories. The personal story behind Dean Koontz is one of perseverance, gentleness and transcendence.
Despite coming from an unstable father with alcoholism and abuse, he has created a strong marriage and a meaningful, thriving career in writing that he continues to work at full-time at age Koontz and his wife are creating a lasting legacy through their support of CCI to help disabled people live a more full life, one dog at a time. The script that you are given in childhood doesn't have to be what you live out as an adult. We can choose to take the best part of our childhood backgrounds and revise the rest.
You can have an unstable or abusive parent and choose to develop loving relationships and attach securely to others despite what you experienced in your family.
It's been meaningful to me to work with many individuals over the past twenty-five years as a therapist to better understand the themes and patterns in their family of origin and rewrite the way they live their lives and the kind of relationships they create.
If we understand our family history, we can learn to lead a more conscious life going forward. Childhood is just where your story begins. His books have also been major bestsellers in countries as diverse as Japan and Sweden. Dean Koontz was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Shippensburg State College now Shippensburg University , and his first job after graduation was with the Appalachian Poverty Program, where he was expected to counsel and tutor underprivileged children on a one-to-one basis.
His first day on the job, he discovered that the previous occupier of his position had been beaten up by the very kids he had been trying to help and had landed in the hospital for several weeks. The following year was filled with challenge but also tension, and Koontz was more highly motivated than ever to build a career as a writer.
Koontz has known since his teens that writing is his calling. His wife, whom he met in high school and married when he was 21 and she was 20, offered to support him for five years while he tried to make it as a writer. She worked in a shoe factory, among other places. He retells the story of his childhood as if the pain were still present but says he was not an unhappy child. You can choose to be happy. The Koontzes have no children.
She is their first dog, adopted three years ago from Canine Companions for Independence in Orange County, which is one of their favorite charitable organizations. Though he loves children, he says, he and his wife decided against having any at a time when they had taken over support of his destitute father, whose errant ways had gotten worse over the years. Report an error Policies and Standards Contact Us. More in News.
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