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Elizabeth lived with a father experiencing mental illness. Her book “Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter” is a survivor’s story. She reminds us that we, too, can experience freedom from a terrible experience and even feel compassion for others’ suffering. Elizabeth suggests that we notice life outside of ourselves and open our hearts of compassion.

Elizabeth Garber’s memoir, Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter (2018) focuses on how her family was caught in a collision between modern architecture, radical social change, and madness in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s in Cincinnati. Maine author Monica Wood, author of The One-in-a-Million Boy said about this book, “I was riveted by this story of an adoring daughter struggling to escape the dominance of her brilliant, charismatic father. Garber writes beautifully about the layered complications of family love.” In this powerful memoir, Elizabeth Garber describes her father’s deepening mental illness, the destruction of her family, and her own slow healing from his abuse. Beautifully written and heartbreaking, Garber’s memoir is also a survivor’s story?about a young woman trying to rescue her family and herself. Now a mother and a healer, Garber’s story offers the hope that we can process trauma and move on, that we can each become the architects of our own lives.

Garber is also the author of three books of poetry, and three of her poems were read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. She received a MFA in creative non-fiction from University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Masters Program. She has maintained a private practice as an acupuncturist for over thirty years in Belfast, Maine.

www.elizabethgarber.com
www.facebook.com/elizabethgarberwriter

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Dr. Michael Myers became a survivor of suicide at the age of 19, when he lost his friend to suicide.  Since then, he has dedicated his life and profession to suicide awareness, support and prevention.  His story reminds us that there’s light and hope at the end of the tunnel.

Dr. Michael Myers is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and immediate past Vice-Chair of Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author or co-author of eight books the most recent of which are “Why Physicians Die by Suicide: Lessons Learned from Their Families and Others Who Cared” and “Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss” (with Carla Fine). He is a recent past president (and emeritus board member) of the New York City Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a member of the Clinician Survivors Task Force of the American Association of Suicidology. Dr Myers became a survivor of suicide at the age of 19 when he lost one of his medical school roommates to suicide. He lectures extensively throughout North America and beyond.

http://www.michaelfmyers.com/

mmyers0609@aol.com

800-273-TALK (24 hour suicide hotline)

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Tim’s story reminds us to celebrate life, let go of emotional baggage, find a support network, meditate, spend time in nature and go for a walk.

Timothy Phillips walked the Camino Frances from St.Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela in 2010 and 2015 to celebrate 60 years and 65 years respectively. He walked a different route this past spring from Seville to Santiago. This is his account of a trek which became for him an important voyage of introspection: a physical journey which is also metaphor, dealing with the twists and turns of life, following some wrong paths, learning the need to travel lighter, finding clarity, peace and a place of healing along the way. We can transcend our history, become unstuck and flourish.
This is the basis of the book he wrote entitled “My Camino Walk – A Way to Healing” (IslandCatEditions) available through Kindle, Kobo and iTunes and as a print book through Amazon.

http://www.caminodetim.com/
http://healingonthedanforth.com/
clinic@healingonthedanforth.com

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