商品簡介
During the last eight months of her father's life, author Katherine Mayfield lost so much weight that a friend commented, “Hugging you is like hugging a broomstick.” Exhausted and sick after seven years of caregiving and decades of emotional abuse, Mayfield set foot on a journey of healing following her parents' deaths, which she describes in her memoir.
作者簡介
Katherine Mayfield is the award-winning author of "The Box of Daughter: Healing the Authentic Self"; "Bullied: Why You Feel Bad Inside and What to Do About It," a guide to recovery for teens and adults who have been bullied; two books on the acting business: "Smart Actors, Foolish Choices" and "Acting A to Z," both published by Back Stage Books; the Kindle book "Dysfunctional Families: The Truth Behind the Happy Family Facade"; and a book of poetry, "The Box of Daughter and Other Poems." "The Box of Daughter" won awards in both the 2012 New England Book Festival and Reader's Favorite Book Awards, and was nominated as a Finalist in the 2013 Maine Literary Awards. Ms. Mayfield also won the Honorable Mention award in the 2011 Warren Adler Short Story Contest for her short story "The Last Visit," which is based on the last time she visited her father in hospice care.She has been published in Dance Teacher Now magazine, Dance Spirit magazine, The Significato Journal online, Sasee magazine, The Women's Times, the Greenfield Recorder, and on Women.com, Fiftyshift.com, and numerous other websites.She loves writing, painting, jigsaw puzzles, and cats, and teaches writing in Maine. She blogs on Dysfunctional Families on her website, TheBoxofDaughter.com.
