Well my
new E-book is live on Amazon/Kindle. Of
course, I’m biased, but I think it’s a pretty unique and awesome collection on
loss and love, with a Psychohumorist’s ™ twist.
Assembled over several decades, the book mixes Shrink Raps ™ and
Resiliency Poetry as well as a few poignant essays, and is topped off with
thought-provoking Poetic Commentary and Discussion Questions. (See a more complete overview in the below
synopsis.) FL(2) will stimulate your head, nurture your heart, and inspire your
soul!
Please
consider checking out my Amazon book/author page:
The price
of admission is only $3.99. And if you
take the leap…and like the poetic well-spring, please share your thoughts on
the feedback page. Enjoy! Mark
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Stress Doc’s New
E-Book – Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss: Relearning to Let Go, Laugh and Love
Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss is a comic-to-tragic-and-back-again “Resiliency
Poetry” and “Rebuilding the Fire” road-map.
Also sprinkled with “how to” essays, the collection is an insightfully
edgy expression of a one-of-a-kind Psychohumorist ™ and Shrink Rapper ™, yet
all too human Stress Doc ™. Journey
with Mark as he explores varieties of love – from vital to delusional – in an
array of intimate (okay, sometimes more sensual than intimate)
relationships. FL2 also examines love and loss in a variety of work-family life battlefields
(symbolic as well as literal, e.g., see “Who KNOWS War”) – and puts you on the
path of courageous recovery and discovery.
The work reveals an individual who often must deep
dive into dark shadowy grief – the shock,
the rage, the searing pain of loss…yet also struggles and persists – three
strokes forward two strokes back or v.v. – to resurface, moving closer to the
light; to reviving and rediscovering a now more en-light-ened head and heart.
For example, see the wickedly fun lyric, “Double-Edged Depression,”
where you choose between “chemistry or confession” and ultimately find
salvation in “creative expression.” Conversely,
discover the Doc’s collateral damage when
a ten-year partnership suddenly is no more:
his ex-communication from the family means the gut-wrenching loss of his
ex’s 3-year-old granddaughter. Still,
you’ll be touched and tickled by the love Lil Charlotte inspired, and you’ll
cheer the Doc’s decision to take on those all-powerful Queens of Hearts…if only
in his “curiouser and curiouser” if not slightly crazed mind.
The book is divided into four sections: 1) Fierce
Longing, 2) Fiery Loss, 3) Relearning to Let Go, Laugh & Love, and 4) Grief
Journaling, including truly evocative, spectrum of emotion eulogies written for
special loved ones. Engage with the
book’s distinctive four-part structure: 1) the creative context for the poem or
essay, 2) the evocative piece, 3) a sometimes brief, sometimes more developed
commentary and thoughtful retrospective on Poetic Perspective and Power, along
with 4) Discussion Questions that sharpen
poetic meaning and intensity while providing you stimulating “food for thought”
voices, insights, and intimate engagement.
This unique collection will definitely assist in
your “head work, heart work, and homework”:
• Bathe
in the outrageous insights of a one-of-a-kind Shrink Rapper ™: from dysfunction and dependence to mindful
and “out of mind” transcendence
•
Encounter vivid and visual ideas and images, insightful and inspiring analogies,
and “Resiliency Poetry” strategies for once again “letting go, laughing, and loving”
• Embrace
those “grief ghosts” and internalize the difference between “feeling sorry for
yourself and feeling your sorrow”
• Be inspired
to embark on your own self-inventory as well as voyage of discovery and self-invention:
grapple with demeaning inner voices, work through meaningful relationship anger,
harness pain into Mountain Vision
purpose, and laugh with “higher power” healing humor
• Use
Resiliency Poetry & Shrink Rap ™ as a learning-discussion tool in a variety
of classroom/learning settings, psycho-educational support, study, and book
groups, as well as around the family, coffeehouse, or breakroom and boardroom
table
If a
picture is worth a thousand words then, by Gorkinian psycho-metrics, a
thought-inspiring, heart-jolting, or outrageous metaphor or poetic visual is
worth at least one hundred psychological insights, deep-seated projections, and
untamed associations! Be energized by
the Stress Doc’s “New KISS Mantra”: Keep
It Short & Smart. Amen and Women
to that!
Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW,
"The Stress Doc" ™, a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer,
and "Psychohumorist" ™, is a founding partner and Stress Resilience
and Trauma Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health
& Wellness Initiative. A former Stress and Violence Prevention
Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous Pre-Deployment Stress
Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for the US Army. The Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a High Tech World. Mark’s award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite"
– www.stressdoc.com – was called a "workplace resource" by
National Public Radio (NPR). For more
info, email: stressdoc@aol.com.
