Civil Warrior: The Raw, Gritty Truth about Anxiety, Depression, and Workplace Burnout

Suicide contracts, crippling panic attacks, dark depressions, and synapse-destroying workplace burnout--it's all in there. One woman's life journal posted for public consumption.

CIVIL WARRIOR(TM) is a fretfully honest and sometimes frenetic retelling of Kristy Short's most affecting moments and how she fought her way back to life and living--more than once.

Spanning three decades, CIVIL WARRIOR details Short's heart-rending spirals and lifelong battle with that little bitch she calls Anxiety, along with all the other "parts" that occupy her overactive brain--Depression, Shame, Fear, Loathing, Compassion, Kindness, Gratitude. Every last one of them.

You'll move with her from the stone-cold bottom of the well to a place of light, gravity, and comfort. If you've ever retreated to a dark closet to rock and sob and beg for a moment of mental peace (or something like), it may feel like this book was written just for you. A weight-lifting assurance that you are not alone. It's storytelling at its finest--familiar, truthful, and without apology.