Finding My Invisible Sun

By Lisa M. King

$9.95 – $34.95

Finding My Invisible Sun is a moving, intensely thought-provoking and courageous memoir that illuminates an individual’s capacity for, and path to, recovery and transformation from cumulative trauma.

The rich use of imagery and language invites the reader to witness, connect with, and share the author’s experiences of growing up, trauma, mental illness, love, discrimination and healing via literary devices that masterfully synthesise science and art, excruciatingly poignant realism and the special magic realism that the surreal world of dissociation offers the desperate fugitive.

Finding My Invisible Sun uses Lisa King’s experiences and observations to challenge the current dominant discourse pervading Australian academic institutions, mental health systems and public health policy. It provides compassion, wisdom, and hope for readers searching for guidance in approaching trauma recovery and transformation.

Finding My Invisible Sun differs from other trauma studies because its interdisciplinarian approach questions and flouts power structures, and demands a revolutionary, critical examination of the experience of mental illness: breathing human life into an abstract and nebulous statistic. Lisa King’s deep prizing of humanity and social justice is not lost in the text’s dense evidence-based research, making it an essential, accessible and practical book for readers wanting to understand their experience of trauma; for tertiary students and academics across health disciplines, and clinicians.

Where there is trauma, there is space for recovery.
Where there is hope, there is potential for recreation and transformation.

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An incredibly brave, honest, and eloquent personal story that takes you on a journey through early trauma, its impact on adult life and ultimately into hope. Lisa delves into her lived experience and provides an insightful account of how one assimilates early raw traumatic experiences while growing up in an indifferent world, its negative impact, and how she found herself through therapy. This is a brilliant read, enriched with powerful paintings and poetry.

– Dr. Kris Rao, MScMed (Psychotherapy), Psy.D.

Finding My Invisible Sun is beautifully written and eloquent, with moments of playfulness, intensive reflective insight, heart-wrenching sadness and clarity. A true artist: the internal workings of Lisa’s mind are vividly illustrated and amplified with references to song lyrics, sounds, quotes, and books that have been instrumental at different ages and stages in her life. I hope you read it as I did, with a smile, in awe of such masterfully crafted writing. I have no doubt that Finding My Invisible Sun will resonate with, and help many people who read it.

– Amanda Bendt, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker/Trauma therapist

An extraordinary and very unusual book. Partly a courageous and searingly honest account of personal trauma and recovery. Partly a textbook on trauma and trauma therapy – with plenty of academic references to follow up. Partly and ultimately a message of hope for both those who need help and those who do their best to provide it. You will learn more from this book than just about any book on trauma that I know. Graham Taylor, Clinical Psychologist, Accredited EMDR Trainer, Accredited Schema Therapy Trainer, Accredited ACT Trainer Lisa’s selfless regard for others and passion for questioning the status quo, have led to recovery in herself and many others. This book will be a lighthouse for anyone who has ever experienced mental illness, the systems that work against them and the powerless and vulnerable position they find themselves in when asking for help. Essential reading for health professionals – when you know better, you do better.

– Eliza Pike, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Director Blackbird Counselling, Program Manager Gidget Foundation

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