Sunlight & Storms

A Memoir on the Nature of Trauma Relationship Patterns and the Path of Healing.
 
Sunlight & Storms is both a literal and figurative story of chasing sunlight and avoiding storms. It is an encapsulation of the fragmentation of self that occurs inside when one experiences repeated trauma that shapes their internal emotional and psychological landscape over time.
This memoir is a story of the lived experience of loss, abuse, and the journey of surviving it. This story illustrates what it is like to truly heal, discovering pathways of resilience that are unconventional and have nothing to do with solutions we are sold to believe are the answers to healing. This story of self-reclamation and the breaking of deep relational trauma patterns is nothing short of transformative.
Both poetic and slightly sarcastic, Olivia paints a detailed picture of not only reclaiming herself, but recreating herself and her relationship to life. After years of repeating the cycle, Olivia finally learns to embrace the storms inside herself, seeing herself as a part of nature.