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It's hard being you : a primer on being happy anyway / Sharon Emery.

Summary:

"Sharon Emery struggled with the losses and limits she faced but couldn't change - no matter how hard she tried. And she did try. First with her incurable severe stutter, then with the death of her daughter, Jessica, and the too-early deaths of her own younger siblings. Meanwhile, her "broken" voice meant her long career in communications was regularly a battle. Emery wrote this memoir to help guide her children on their own life journeys, stressing the amazing resilience of humans beings. Exhibit A: herself."--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781954786554
ISBN: 1954786557
ISBN: 9781954786561
ISBN: 1954786565
Physical Description: xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: Traverse City, MI : Mission Point Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The lodestar -- Jess begins -- Containing life -- Stuttering me -- Stuttering me, cont. -- My head and my heart -- Preach: Encounters of the disabling kind -- Spirits and aspirations -- Loss and revelation. Jan -- Jan, cont. -- Jan, concluded -- We survive. But not always. Ralph -- Losing Jessica -- The family impact of limits and loss -- Losing Jessica, cont. -- A breaking home -- Struggling to survive -- The aftermath -- Marriage-Surviving as a couple -- Preach: Encounters of the binding kind -- The duality-Loving, and losing it -- Preach: Enumerating infinite messages -- Making meaning.