Liv Unravelled

Liv's world is unravelling. She is 30, living back-to-the-land on her idyllic farm in the 1980s. Her once-happy marriage to a charismatic sociology professor is crumbling under the pressure of his increasingly erratic behaviour. Liv herself is struggling to stop trying to avoid conflict and please others and take control of her life. She turns to her close friend Celeste, a hypnotherapist, and, with some trepidation, agrees to undergo hypno-regression therapy. She learns to follow threads that connect her to past incarnations of her spirit. With techniques both scientific and fanciful, Liv is able to observe the stories of characters who have visited her dreams, haunted her nightmares and captivated her imagination. These stories of Liv's past lives are interwoven with episodes from her current life: her marriage, her young children, and her own early years. Liv comes to understand that her past traumas will neither define nor defeat her. The themes running through the novel are forever topical: relationships, mental illness, addiction, sexual abuse and family dysfunction. The overlying message of the story is the survival, healing and happiness that is possible with the power of having our stories heard, being believed and discovering our inner strengths, love and fortifying friendships. Early readers are saying this novel is emotionally engaging, compelling and "impossible to put down." They find it hopeful and helpful, as well as both tragic and magical.

Author: Donna Maureen Bishop

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: Jun 28, 2019

Number of Pages: 308 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1075109965

ISBN-13: 9781075109966