My Life in a Nutshell: A Novel is the
story of one man's struggles with debilitating anxiety. Brian Cunningham has
isolated himself to such a degree that his human contact is barely more than an
hour a day. While lonely, he feels powerless to change his life. Unexpectedly,
his safe little world is invaded by one Abigail Harris, a seven-year-old girl
who, for the last five years, has bounced from foster home to foster home. She
has come to live with an aunt and uncle she has never known. Unsure if she can
trust her new environment, she turns to Brian. Neither one quite knows how to
live in the world. Can they possibly help each other?
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Tanya J. Peterson, MS, NCC
Mental Health Novelist, Writer, & Speaker
Mental Health Novelist, Writer, & Speaker
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Tanya J. Peterson holds a Bachelor of Science in secondary
education, Master of Science in counseling, and is a Nationally Certified
Counselor. She has been a teacher and a counselor in various settings,
including a traditional high school and an alternative school for homeless and
runaway adolescents, and she has volunteered her services in both schools and
communities. Peterson is an active volunteer with the National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI), and she is a regular columnist for the
Anxiety-Schmanxiety blog on HealthyPlace.com.
She draws
on her education, experience, and personal background with bipolar 1 disorder
and anxiety to write stories about the psychological aspect of the human
condition, specifically mental illness and the impact it has on human beings.
Her goal is to change the way the world thinks about mental illness and the
people who live with it.
Peterson
believes that fiction is a powerful vehicle for teaching fact. Further, she
knows that people empathize with characters in novels, and commonly they
transfer their empathy to real-life human beings. To that end, she has
published Leave of Absence, My Life in a Nutshell, and the YA novel Losing
Elizabeth. Additionally, she has published Challenge!,
a short story about a person who finds the confidence to overcome criticism and
achieve a goal, and a book review of Linley and Joseph’s Positive Therapy: A Meta-Theory
for Positive Psychological Practice that
appeared in Counseling Today, the national
publication of the American Counseling Association.
Peterson
has also been interviewed on numerous radio shows, given presentations on
mental illness and book readings nationwide, spoken on mental illness at the
2013 national conference of the Mothers of Incarcerated Sons Society, Inc., and
has been quoted in various articles about mental health and mental illness.
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