Even A Bad Penny Can Shine is a memoir book Greg Alonge has written to his sons though it's much more than that...
Eyes opened wide at an early age by life-changing experiences, Greg Alonge gives a detailed account of his life growing up in New York, living his adult years in Massachusetts, and how he navigated and survived traumatic events. Though suffering through difficult times, Greg always knew his passion was helping children and their families in the cities. Helping others was always the focus. Over decades, Greg was able to use his sympathetic understanding of traumatic survivorship to help kids and their families work on their problematic past while helping them learn to grow as a person individually through the experience. Through short writings about his life's work, Greg outlines how these cases helped him learn how to be a stronger version of himself through stressful and scary times. Finally, Greg outlines the importance of learning constructive ways to channel traumatic anger, through his own history, by surviving these life-changing moments by evolving and growing as a soul from these situations.
Even A Bad Penny Can Shine takes you on a journey of how people can use their troubled past to help usher others through their own current traumatic journeys by constructively learning to cope. We can all grow through trauma.