Out of the Ashes - Crotty, Sallie
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Out of the Ashes, an inspiring story of hope . . . With Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope, Sallie Crotty offers a profoundly moving memoir told with unflinching bravery and insight. Her compelling story explores a topic that affects us all: mental health. Detailing a mid-life descent into debilitating despair, she brings the reader on a deeply personal journey. She reveals her struggles, time spent in a psychiatric ward, and how lacking a clear diagnosis almost led to her death. She also describes how proper care and receiving the right diagnosis and treatment can provide hope,…mehr

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Out of the Ashes, an inspiring story of hope . . . With Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope, Sallie Crotty offers a profoundly moving memoir told with unflinching bravery and insight. Her compelling story explores a topic that affects us all: mental health. Detailing a mid-life descent into debilitating despair, she brings the reader on a deeply personal journey. She reveals her struggles, time spent in a psychiatric ward, and how lacking a clear diagnosis almost led to her death. She also describes how proper care and receiving the right diagnosis and treatment can provide hope, stability, and a path to happiness. This inspiring memoir will help remove some of the stigma surrounding mental illness and encourage those suffering to seek treatment. Crotty provides hope for the many individuals diagnosed every year, their loved ones, and anyone interested in learning more about the lives of those who live with mental illness.
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Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope is educator Sallie Crotty's first book. Previously she has published poems, personal essays, and articles in The Dairy Hollow Echo (an anthology of the best selections from The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow's eMerge); The Drabble; eMerge; Resources to Recover (an online resource for people living with mental illness); The Menninger Clinic's Annual Fund 2016 publication; Texas Jewish Post; and Capitalines. The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference selected her writing for workshop three times, and in 2018, The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow awarded her a residency. In 2018, Oral Fixation (An Obsession with True Life Tales) selected her to tell part of her story to an audience of nearly 400 people, with the performance later shared on YouTube.Sallie holds a BA in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and an EdM from Harvard University. Currently, she is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte.Since 2019, Sallie, a native Texan, has lived in Seattle with her husband. They have two young adult children. She is working on a poetry collection.