Chaos in Color: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and Forgiveness
Amazon Bestseller
From a young age, Layla Salek has experienced some people as colors—her mother brown, her father green, her husband rainbow. As she notes, sometimes, when words fail, colors speak.
Chaos in Color is the captivating story of Layla’s journey from childhood to adulthood with a mother who suffered from untreated bipolar disorder. Each chapter paints a vivid, heartbreaking picture of the abuse, neglect, and trauma that she experienced as she grew up at the mercy of her mother’s bipolar swings, an incompetent mental health system, and the strangers with whom she was often left. But dissipating those times of darkness were moments of love, joy, and happiness that she felt while being cared for by others in her life. These moments inspired her to start her own family, complete a doctorate in psychology, and work with children with mental illness and severe behavior disorders.
Layla’s story traces how personal and familial trauma is carried into adulthood and how it can be released through forgiveness. This honest, provocative memoir offers a relatable account for others who have experienced similar trauma, as well as hope for healing and a future full of light.
From a young age, Layla Salek has experienced some people as colors—her mother brown, her father green, her husband rainbow. As she notes, sometimes, when words fail, colors speak.
Chaos in Color is the captivating story of Layla’s journey from childhood to adulthood with a mother who suffered from untreated bipolar disorder. Each chapter paints a vivid, heartbreaking picture of the abuse, neglect, and trauma that she experienced as she grew up at the mercy of her mother’s bipolar swings, an incompetent mental health system, and the strangers with whom she was often left. But dissipating those times of darkness were moments of love, joy, and happiness that she felt while being cared for by others in her life. These moments inspired her to start her own family, complete a doctorate in psychology, and work with children with mental illness and severe behavior disorders.
Layla’s story traces how personal and familial trauma is carried into adulthood and how it can be released through forgiveness. This honest, provocative memoir offers a relatable account for others who have experienced similar trauma, as well as hope for healing and a future full of light.
- GenresNonfictionMemoir
309 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2023
REVIEW
Chaos in Color: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and Forgiveness
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I felt this book had a lot of relatable situations for anyone who may have experienced similar situations in their own lives. The story can be inspiring, yet I feel it needed some professional editing to make it more understandable and easier to follow.
Thanks to Netgalley, and the publisher for providing this to me for review purposes.
Thanks to Netgalley, and the publisher for providing this to me for review purposes.
This edition
- Format
- 309 pages, Kindle Edition
- Published
- September 19, 2023 by River Grove Books
- ISBN
- 9781632997036 (ISBN10: 1632997037)
- ASIN
- B0CHSGHX5B
- Language
- English
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