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After a triggering incident at work reactivates paralyzing memories of her childhood sexual abuse, neuroscience professor Stacey Hettes reenters therapy. Her courageous account of therapy from the client's perspective is all the more powerful because of her clear explanations about the ways that trauma rewires the brain.
This is an exquisitely written, sometimes gut-wrenching, and ultimately hopeful story about a woman's strength, a family's complicated love, and a therapist's intelligence and persistence.
Stacey is living exactly the right life before she hits the psychological equivalent of a patch of black ice.
As Professor Hettes, her classes focus as much on neuroscience's beauty and wonder as its facts and theories. Fellow faculty members see her as a fair but outspoken leader on a campus steeped in the blended patriarchies of academia and southern gentility.
At an emotionally charged forum on sexual violence, she takes a stand against a colleague's reckless verbal assault, outing herself as a sexual abuse survivor in the process. Professor Hettes must continue her work even as Stacey finds herself…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Theo of Golden has its flaws, but I found myself drawn into its warmth, kindness, and celebration of human connection. Despite its imperfections, it left me with a lingering sense of hope and appreciation for the small ways we can make a difference in one another’s lives.
'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.'
One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from...
His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance - or has he? He visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits by a local artist of the people of Golden. He…
