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Humor columnist Maggie Lamond Simone's painful journey provides insight for the thousands of others who similarly cut, starve, pick, drink, pluck, purge, and otherwise hurt themselves in private in order to survive in public. She explores the issues of substance abuse, anxiety, and depression that commonly occur with OCD, all in an effort to further the dialog around mental illness and eliminate the shame, because "the shame . . . the shame is a killer."Maggie Lamond Simone is an award-winning columnist and author. Her first column anthology, From Beer to Maternity, was released in November 2009. She has a black belt in Kenpo karate and a master's degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
List of contents
Foreword by Kelly Hamilton, LMHC, BCC
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter One: White Belt
Chapter Two: Yellow Belt
Chapter Three: Orange Belt
Chapter Four: Purple Belt
Chapter Five: Blue Belt
Chapter Six: Green Belt
Chapter Seven: Brown Belt
Chapter Eight: Red Belt
Chapter Nine: High Red Belt
Chapter Ten: Black Belt
Epilogue
Resources
About the author
Maggie Lamond Simone is a national award-winning columnist and author. Her humor and observational essays appear in multiple newspapers nationally as well as Family Times, an award-winning monthly parenting magazine in Central New York, and online in the Huffington Post.
Her first column anthology, From Beer to Maternity, was released in November 2009. Her essays are included in three Chicken Soup for the Soul editions and alongside Jacquelyn Mitchard in P.S. What I Didn’t Say (Seal Press, 2009). Her columns also appeared for several years in the Sunday edition of the Syracuse Herald American.
She has a black belt in Kenpo karate and a master’s degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She lives in Central New York with her husband and two children.
