By Dr. Gail Cloud
This July, I am launching my first published book. It is officially coming out at the end of the month, and I am excited and anxious for its arrival.
You are invited to the official launch party for my book on August 2nd from 4 pm until 6 pm at Mansions on the Plaza on Delmar Blvd.
I don’t know about you, but I usually don’t like to make myself vulnerable to the public. I am privately a more introverted person who chooses carefully who I speak of vulnerable and intimate feelings with. Yet, my book is coming out and is a departure from my usual nature. It is a memoir of a very personal experience involving a relationship with one of the most formative persons in my life, my father. This book is also all in prose, as I discovered through the process of writing that I express myself and tell the story best in prose. It helps me to focus my thoughts and feelings so that I can write in detail without losing myself or using too many words to express a thought.
It is titled Therapist’s Daughter. I am a therapist’s daughter and, as such, have child-rearing experiences not only unique to that genre, a child of a therapist, but also what many of us sadly live, a child of a narcissistic person. Many of these poems express my feelings and my growth. I am sure as you read them, if you read them, you will have your reactions: good, bad, relating, not relating, disagreeing, angry, etc. That is as it should be and what writing brings out in us.
For me, I have a difficult time when people dislike me or get angry with me. I know I am not alone in this, but here I am sharing with you part of the anxiety this brings up in me when the book is released.
I hope, if you are so moved, you read it and gain something from it. And I would be honored if you purchased the book. It will be available on demand and by ebook by July 31st.
Next week on my Facebook page, Dr. Gail Cloud, DC, I will begin sharing one of the poems. Feel free to tune in.
If I can help you to share and be more vulnerable and you would like a session on this process or the process of writing, reach out to Gail@bodypresencing.com.,
314-995-9755; www.bodypresencing.com.