Kandy’s life takes a devastating turn the day she is assaulted. Confused, broken, and traumatized, she watches her world crash before her eyes. The life she built was now destroyed. Previous suffering, loss, and trauma resurfaces, including witnessing her mother’s death as a teenager.
Forced to face the trauma, Kandy hits rock bottom.
Her mental health deteriorates, and she is diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety, and depression. As the mental illnesses spread like wildfire, she is sent down a gut-wrenching, dark, and twisted road. She experiences flashbacks, triggers, blood-curdling fear, behavioural changes, dissociation, and nightmares that will send your heart racing.
Shattered is an unforgettable story of trauma and healing. This is a must-read for those who feel alone in their trauma and want to reclaim their lives. Throughout the book, you will discover effective coping strategies for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and stress. As well, you will learn valuable lessons about trauma and healing.
This is a great resource for those that have not experienced trauma but want to help someone who is going through it. You will gain insight of what it is like for someone that is living through trauma and the after effects it can have on the individual’s life.
Included in Appendices:
- Lessons learned about trauma and healing
- Strategies for managing anxiety, depression, PTSD, and stress
- Exercises for changing thought pattern, identifying anxiety and triggers, and discovering purpose and worth
She’s suffered so many painful times, and she wants to help others by sharing her story, what happened to her. It's a nice presentation, I liked the font style, and a few colour photos are included, a lot of thought and care has gone into it.
The book starts where she and her twin sister are born. The writing is concise and clear. I like reading medical memoirs, and found it interesting reading about the twins' early entrance into the world.
The book was written simply; no nonsense, no waffle, no flowery descriptions. It was straight to the point, which I liked. Despite the difficult subject matter, I found her writing very quick and easy to read. I read it in just a couple of days. There is a funny anecdote too, so it was a balanced account.
Subject matter like this is hard to read about. It's difficult to say you enjoyed reading the book-how can you enjoy it, when it's someone’s worst of times? But she is able to communicate her story on the page so well. So it is easy to read, to whizz through. But we can only begin to understand the huge amount she's gone through.
It's good that she feels writing about her journey has helped. It shows hope; a more uplifting end. Naturally she’ll still have bad days, but with writing, she’s found something that helps her cope, manage her symptoms etc. She hadn't intended to become a writer, and it was a positive thing, it seems the new focus helped her a lot.
Much of this is reading about difficult times, but it is uplifting to read how starting her writing journey helped her healing, and continues to do so.