Truth Be Told: A Memoir of Success, Suicide, and Survival
“Suicide haunts you as something to hide, something to be ashamed of, something that keeps reminding you that your family is damaged, scarred . . . It's a dark, ugly secret that you don't want to share.”
 
From bestselling author and self-help guru Lucinda Bassett, comes an intimate and empowering memoir. A few years ago, Bassett's husband and business partner, David, committed suicide after an agonizing year's struggle with mental illness. Lucinda and her children were devastated. Unbelievably, within just a few months of his death, she lost her brother, and then her mother. And to add to the overwhelming anguish she was already experiencing, Lucinda was then forced to sell her business during an economic downturn. In this gripping account, Bassett digs deep inside herself to uncover the patterns of guilt, blame, anger, and shame she experienced throughout her life, and how they resurfaced and related to these horrific and painful recent tragedies. Her remarkable story is one of complete and candid intimacy, personal introspection, courage, pain, perseverance, and, ultimately, healing.
 
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Truth Be Told: A Memoir of Success, Suicide, and Survival
“Suicide haunts you as something to hide, something to be ashamed of, something that keeps reminding you that your family is damaged, scarred . . . It's a dark, ugly secret that you don't want to share.”
 
From bestselling author and self-help guru Lucinda Bassett, comes an intimate and empowering memoir. A few years ago, Bassett's husband and business partner, David, committed suicide after an agonizing year's struggle with mental illness. Lucinda and her children were devastated. Unbelievably, within just a few months of his death, she lost her brother, and then her mother. And to add to the overwhelming anguish she was already experiencing, Lucinda was then forced to sell her business during an economic downturn. In this gripping account, Bassett digs deep inside herself to uncover the patterns of guilt, blame, anger, and shame she experienced throughout her life, and how they resurfaced and related to these horrific and painful recent tragedies. Her remarkable story is one of complete and candid intimacy, personal introspection, courage, pain, perseverance, and, ultimately, healing.
 
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Truth Be Told: A Memoir of Success, Suicide, and Survival

Truth Be Told: A Memoir of Success, Suicide, and Survival

by Lucinda Bassett
Truth Be Told: A Memoir of Success, Suicide, and Survival

Truth Be Told: A Memoir of Success, Suicide, and Survival

by Lucinda Bassett

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“Suicide haunts you as something to hide, something to be ashamed of, something that keeps reminding you that your family is damaged, scarred . . . It's a dark, ugly secret that you don't want to share.”
 
From bestselling author and self-help guru Lucinda Bassett, comes an intimate and empowering memoir. A few years ago, Bassett's husband and business partner, David, committed suicide after an agonizing year's struggle with mental illness. Lucinda and her children were devastated. Unbelievably, within just a few months of his death, she lost her brother, and then her mother. And to add to the overwhelming anguish she was already experiencing, Lucinda was then forced to sell her business during an economic downturn. In this gripping account, Bassett digs deep inside herself to uncover the patterns of guilt, blame, anger, and shame she experienced throughout her life, and how they resurfaced and related to these horrific and painful recent tragedies. Her remarkable story is one of complete and candid intimacy, personal introspection, courage, pain, perseverance, and, ultimately, healing.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781402779879
Publisher: Sterling
Publication date: 03/05/2013
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Founder and former CEO of the Midwest Center For Stress and Anxiety, Lucinda Bassett is a nationally acclaimed motivational speaker and bestselling author of The Solution (Sterling), From Panic to Power (HarperCollins), and Life Without Limits (HarperCollins in hardcover; William Morrow in paper). Her life-changing techniques for conquering anxiety and depression have been shared with a variety of major corporations such as AT&T and McDonalds, and professional associations such as LPGA and the AIDS Foundation, as well as many educational institutions. She has appeared on hundreds of national radio and television programs including Oprah!, The View, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Robert Schuller's Hour of Power. Bassett and her emotional wellness solutions have been featured in a variety of high-profile publications including Health, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, and the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Table of Contents

Prologue June 8, 2011 11

Introduction Brought to My Knees 15

Chapter 1 My Father's Legacy 19

Chapter 2 Dead-End Street 29

Chapter 3 Dirty Little Secret 40

Chapter 4 Covered in Blood and Never Been Happier 50

Chapter 5 On the Run 57

Chapter 6 Good-bye, White Trash; Hello, White Camaro 65

Chapter 7 Love Gone Wrong 72

Chapter 8 Singer in the Band 84

Chapter 9 Lightning Bolts 94

Chapter 10 Fixing People 114

Chapter 11 Motherhood and Miscarriage 131

Chapter 12 Death, Speaking, and Success 146

Chapter 13 Another Death, Another Life 153

Chapter 14 California, Here We Come 171

Chapter 15 The Bargain with God 181

Chapter 16 A Bargain Is a Bargain 191

Chapter 17 All Fall Down 204

Chapter 18 June 7 - June 13, 2008 230

Chapter 19 Lunesta and the Perfect Storm 240

Chapter 20 It's Heart Related 251

Chapter 21 Surviving Suicide 261

Epilogue Keep Looking Up 265

Acknowledgments 278

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