On The Other Side Of Truehope
Plenty of people who find their balance using the Truehope Program are let down when they discover that there is no magic pill for the aftermath of bipolar. That’s not entirely true. There was, for me, a combo of medications that was pure magic. I swallowed the five prescription cocktail and slept non-stop for days, and thus, remembered nothing about my life, my mother, or the number on the bathroom scale. And my panic was cured. But that’s not living after all. ...
Reality is Always Kind
Reality Is Always Kind Fifteen years into my recovery from Bipolar I hit a wall. Too many triggers from too much trauma were creating too many panic attacks leaving me vulnerable and compromising my health and robbing me of my happiness as a mom. I had to retrain my memory. None of my memories were kind. What is reality and what is kind about it? In “A Promise of Hope” I wrote about the day my mother loaded my ...
Recording A Promise of Hope
When I sold the rights of publishing to HarperCollins Canada (I lived in Canada until three years ago,) I begged them to produce an audio book so that my story could reach everyone – even people who are as sick as I used to be. When I was super depressed I couldn’t read. Just before the book was published in 2007, I got a call saying they planned to produce the audio book. I asked if I could read it. I wasn’t trying ...
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