BREAKING FREE (2022)

I AM NOT BIPOLAR; HEALING IS POSSIBLEShe had mastered to cover up her pain. Angela was confident that the only way she would protect herself from pain was AVOIDANCE. In this book, BREAKING FREE she takes the reader on a journey of exposing the dangers of covering up pain. For Angela, covering up eventually exploded into a medical diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder.The author takes the reader on a journey to show that healing is possible from invisible wounds. With the use of her story; Angela enables the reader travel into a world that explores and unveils a world, whose existence most of us prefer to deny. But this is a journey that heals soul and emotional wounds.The author’s description of her fight with bipolar encourages mental health conversations. At the same time, it brings home the reality that when mental illness happens to a loved one the effects are far reaching.With Breaking Free; the silence and stigma surrounding the mental illness is crushed. The portrayal of the author wearing many hats of; wife, career woman, mother, and now turned mental health activist helps families relate to this story. Clearly, anyone is vulnerable.You can breathe again. There is hope and redemption through a pathway of finding your identity in God; Angela did. By sharing her vulnerable moments, her story gives every family with a loved who is struggling mentally to acknowledge their pain and get help.