BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum
By Sara Schley
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Welcome
Thank you for taking a moment to get to know me, the author of the books that you will find here. My name is Sara Schley.
I am an organizational consultant for social and environmental justice, a mom, stepmom, grandmother, wife, spiritual teacher, outdoor leader, business entrepreneur, published author, filmmaker, and more.
And I live with bipolar II, a brutal teacher which has informed everything I do and who I’ve become in my six plus decades around the sun. I have mostly kept the truth of this in the closet, fearing the stigma.
What People Are Saying About BrainStorm
“You have written a masterful autobiography about your lived experiences with Bipolar Disorder II, poignantly capturing the lack of understanding about Bipolar Spectrum disorders... It will be hugely helpful to have a first-person narrative account of what it is like to live with BD II available to increase awareness and decrease stigma. Your story no doubt will inspire others who struggle with BD II. I fervently hope that your book gets published so it can be made available to a wide audience.”
Dr. Holly Swartz
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh
and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Psychothera
“I read BrainStorm straight through while standing in the kitchen. This is a very compelling, very important memoir about the 'other' bipolar disorder—the one hardly anyone knows about.”
Dr. James Phelps
Author of Bipolar, Not So Much
“BrainStorm is an extraordinary, captivating, and unflinchingly honest depiction of Bipolar II Depression across a woman’s lifespan from the inside out. In order to educate the public and professionals, and reach across the deep chasm of stigma associated with Bipolar Disorder, we must all read this book. It will save someone’s life.”
Annette Cycon
LICSW
“The disease feeds on shame, shame feeds on silence,
and I will not be silent anymore.”
Terri Cheney
After forty years of wrestling with the shame, I chose to tell my story.
To stay healthy with a bipolar brain and body, I have learned to be super disciplined in self-care practices: physical, emotional, creative, and spiritual. Through grace, they work most of the time now, and I am so happy to share these with you. No matter who you are, what your challenges are, they will help you. Believe me, bipolar is the great teacher of the balance we all need to stay healthy. Thanks for coming this far. I hope you’re inspired to read on.
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