This is going to be my sixth book. It is called "Alphabet Soup". I had this idea about a book with 26 chapters where each chapter title starts with a different letter of the alphabet. That is how Alphabet Soup was born. Each chapter a sort of recipe. Could be a recipe for simplicity or a recipe for patience. They say life is how we make it. I guess I could say life is how we bake it. How about a recipe for humility as in humble pie? I have no idea where this new journey will take me but I plan to combine my love for writing with my goals to be the best I can be and to leave the world better than I found it. Below are the chapters as I write them. Here is a link to a digital copy of the book and as I write the chapters I will share them on my blog and link them below. All my other books are here.
It is 547am and I have decided to write. I have been living with a mental health diagnosis for more than 23 years. I am differently abled. Mental illness sometimes presents itself as a non-visible disability. A person with mental illness may look and function normally. Added to that we do not get to see the struggles happening internally. After 23 years I could say that I have much experience with my condition and may be able to offer words that may help others. There is plenty of stigma associated with mental illness. People think that the mentally ill are bad people, weak, or somehow less deserving of dignity and the treatment of the illness sometimes feels like punishment and is dehumanizing at times. There is plenty of good intentions and well meaning as well (do not get me wrong) but things could be better. And it happens at the highest level. A leader once said, "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." As the saying goes, who knows it feels it. I started a pr...
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