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TEN Steps to Overcoming A Troubled Mind
Jacqui Wharton
This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime. Within its pages is the wisdom gained through a spiritual awakening facilitated by a journey of recovery from the severe and disabling symptoms of mental illness. Jacqui Wharton distills the essence of her journey in ten simple, but powerful steps to overcoming the psychospiritual side to mental distress - finding Freedom Through Adversity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacqui Wharton has experienced the devastation of mental illness firsthand. Diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder, Jacqui has experienced depression, mania, anxiety, paranoia and psychosis. Jacqui’s symptoms started over seven years ago when, following the events of September 11, she became unwell with her first psychosis. Over the next three years she relapsed into psychotic terror twice, before finally learning to manage her illness.
Over the course of her illness Jacqui has learnt many strategies to manage her psychosis. Reflecting on her successful recovery, Jacqui has highlighted the ten steps that enabled her to achieve a level of emotional wellness and happiness, which far exceeded how she had felt prior to her first psychosis. Jacqui has spent time employed as a mental health rehabilitation officer, working with clients experiencing acute exacerbations of mental illness. She has worked as a primary mental health officer, assisting others in a counselling role and also as a project officer with the Health Department.
Jacqui remains dedicated to her passion for mental health and, more recently, has started her own consultancy business to encourage mental health services to seek out and identify people’s strengths, goals, dreams and aspirations. Jacqui is currently undertaking university studies in public health and one day aspires to complete a PhD with a mental health focus.
Keen to share with others the valuable lessons she has learnt through her own experience, Jacqui Wharton has written Freedom Through Adversity — Ten Steps to Overcoming a Troubled Mind.
For further information visit:www.jacquiwharton.com.au
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