Joyous Ashes

"When I was twenty-three, I wanted to kill myself. . .How would I end the misery coating my veins, the pain that stopped my heart and tore through my mind decimating all coherent thought."Mental Illness: * Has it ever touched your life? Has it touched the life of someone you love? * Do you have any real understanding of it?* How do you deal with it? How do you deal with family members who suffer from it?Joyous Ashes is a memoir about surviving. Surviving mental illness, physical...
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"When I was twenty-three, I wanted to kill myself. . .How would I end the misery coating my veins, the pain that stopped my heart and tore through my mind decimating all coherent thought."Mental Illness: * Has it ever touched your life? Has it touched the life of someone you love? * Do you have any real understanding of it?* How do you deal with it? How do you deal with family members who suffer from it?Joyous Ashes is a memoir about surviving. Surviving mental illness, physical illness and a family unknowingly destroying with every venom-laced word. It's about finding quiet joy amongst the ashes of a life that strides toward brokenness. E. Hill brings pen to paper and tells her story. With journal entries, blog posts, honesty and verve, she confronts her past, bringing light to a life lived in silence and shame. She embraces her darkness, learning to accept it, while also clinging to hope. In the end she encourages everyone who suffers or knows someone who suffers, "Find your way through to the light."