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An inspiring journey following a boy who suffers trauma at a very young age which shakes his world, beliefs, and faith. This leads him down a dark path into drug addiction and alcoholism, before he surrenders to his disease and accepts his bipolar disorder diagnosis. He finds triathlons and ultra-endurance racing as an empowering outlet that helps transform him and becomes a positive outlet for treating his manic bipolar systems.

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her forties, though having lived with its effects since childhood, Hope Andersen struggled for years to find inner peace. Her journey led her to alcoholism, pills, sexual promiscuity, turbulent and abusive relationships, and the brink of suicide. But it was her husband's brush with death as they entered their sixties that opened Hope's eyes, allowing her to begin her life anew. With a fresh lease, she remodeled her life and began seeking its deeper wisdom. Ultimately, what she found was hope.

Between the ages of 18 and 26, author Sasha Kildare's summers became drugs, sex, psychosis, and psych wards. During manic episodes, she ended up in handcuffs and was raped several times. The integrative treatment she received at Bellevue Hospital, her seventh hospitalization, broke that cycle. She shares her compelling story, knowledge, and insight that allowed her to overcome buried childhood trauma and addiction so that she could experience motherhood, fulfilling careers, and long-term remission from bipolar depression.

This poetic ensemble presents the struggles, hardships, addictions and pains from African American women who grew up in Harlem, New York City during the 1990's Crack epidemic. These women were exploited, raped, abandoned, forsaken and diagnosed with mental health issues that caused them to loose the stitches of their minds. Yet they survived, and thrived in the endless abyss of insanity by finding the power of their pens and the poetic voices of their struggles.