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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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My heart hurts, but not in the call 911 way.

Before anyone sends me to urgent care, let me clarify.

I am not having a heart attack.
Trust me, I am the daughter of a man who died of one at 47, so I basically have an honorary WebMD degree in cardiac panic.

It is not the organ in my chest that is hurting.
It is the other heart. The Valentine’s Day one. The emotional one.

The one Prozac usually keeps bubble wrapped and safely offline.

Last night, I fe

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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 — 18 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
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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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