Creating a New Normal: Cleaning Up a Dysfunctional Life - Softcover

Coleman, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615208649 ISBN 13: 9780615208640

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

An award-winning journalist and columnist, Sylvia Coleman garnered most of her accolades chronicling the chaotic lives of others in her articles. On the outside, she appeared to have it all: a burgeoning writing career, a wonderful man and a supportive family. But behind closed doors, her life was just as turbulent as some of the subjects of her award-winning articles. Sylvia was crumbling under a façade — enabling her alcoholic boyfriend, and hiding a dysfunctional past filled with: bouts of clinical depression, overeating, stints of homelessness, and haunting flashbacks of sexual abuse. It would take an unexpected tragedy to force her to finally deal with her past. “Creating a New Normal” describes in extraordinary detail Sylvia’s journey toward healing from what she describes as “a victim mentality.”

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About the Author

Sylvia Coleman is an award-winning health journalist, who conducts the "From Victim to Victor" workshop for sexual abuse survivors. She was awarded the prestigious Leeway Foundation grant to create: www.blacksurvivors.org, a national, onlin e support group for sexual abuse survivors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615208649
• ISBN 13: 9780615208640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196