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Lisa Gerardy

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Hollywood, FL, The United States

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Memoir

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Stephen King, though I do not write horror.

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Lisa Gerardy is a writer, educator, and survivor with a gift for turning pain into prose. In her memoir, Chasing Normal: Finding Love After Surviving Physical and Emotional Abuse, Lisa opens up about her journey through a traumatic childhood and the winding path she took toward self-acceptance and love.

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0-Dark O’Clock, Royal Weddings, and the Things We Don’t Outdrink

I sat on the hotel bathroom floor at zero dark o’clock, distracting myself from my misery by watching Meghan and Harry’s wedding on my iPhone. Oh. Look. Oprah is there, I thought, as my stomach clenched again.

Yes. That Meghan and Harry. Lucky for me, their royal wedding was streaming right around the same time as the aftermath of trying to keep up with my brother-in-law, Mike, at the hotel bar.

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	Clash of the Couples by Crystal Ponti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julia Arnold (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lisa Gerardy (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing Normal: Finding Love After Surviving Physical and Emotional Abuse 4.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Petty Thoughts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nope of the Day: A Six Month Planner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nope to Normal: A Journal for Awkward People 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rewrite Your Normal: A Workbook for Rebels, Survivors, and Cycle-Breakers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cut and Thirst

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My Nightmare in Georgia (Based On A True Story)

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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