Pet Purpose: Your Unspoken Voice

by Xanthe Wyse

Heni is a 'rescuer' - she tries to rescue pets and men. That's where the cliché ends.Love hurts with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An emotional story of love, loss and determination. Content Pet Purpose has mature themes including erotic romance, sexual abuse trauma and grief.Heni’s dream is to be a veterinarian. She wants to save pets but can she save herself? Heni suppresses intense, painful emotions from sexual abuse trauma tangled up with unexpressed grief. What happens when grief and trauma are suppressed long-term? It erupts to the surface eventually in the most unexpected ways.Pet Purpose is set Down Under (Australia and New Zealand). Heni avoids dating after sexual abuse trauma, then falls in love. This is not your fluffy, saccharine romance story. Pet Purpose is dramatic with passionate intensity and many layers.What is love? Why so much suffering? Those are questions Heni struggles to find answers for in her journey navigating love and loss. In desperation, she taps into creative expression, which she discovers to be therapeutic. Creatively processing trauma in unconventional ways. Could mania have served a purpose?Compelling story-telling.Heartbreaking and inspirational.A story of determination, courage and hope.Unique perspective on complex trauma.Pet Purpose is a semi-autobiographical novel, weaving memoir and fiction together. All characters are composite characters, including the pets. Snowball (cover art), is a painting by Xanthe Wyse, the author. Snowball is a character in the story. Xanthe shares diagnoses of bipolar disorder and PTSD with Heni/Larissa. She changed her name for similar reasons after it became a trauma trigger. Xanthe aims to give readers a taste of what bipolar mania with PTSD is like. Pet Purpose is the essence of her story pulled apart and put back together again.Xanthe is currently writing the sequel, Soar Purpose. Xanthe wrote Pet Purpose in hypomania episodes, then edited when grounded. A challenging project that took seven years from conception to publication. She painted in metaphor and symbolism in mania episodes to process and to use as visual mind maps to develop the storyline. Xanthe has short-term memory impairments from her disabilities, yet she has an extraordinary ability to recognise patterns. Making her own purpose has helped to keep her going. She advocates independently as Bipolar Courage on social media to inspire hope and to amplify the voices of the vulnerable.Your unspoken voice will be heard.

325 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2021