Everything is Fine, I’ll Just work Harder
Never-not-working professor embarks on a transformative therapeutic journey after a facebook friend request re-surfaces long-buried trauma.
One queer person bravely and creatively uses therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault.
One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara’s watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. When they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. The rapist wanted to “friend” them.
Cara always had a long to-do list and was constantly busy. But this trigger stopped them in their tracks and they began to lose their grip on their work, projects, and relationships. Then Cara began to work with a therapist who guided them through the long but powerful process of excavating old wounds in order to heal. Along this unexpected journey, Cara found a new way forward.
PRAISE
“A cathartic deep dive into an all-too-common experience”
-Publishers Weekly
Gormally delivers a quietly radical graphic memoir that explores how trauma embeds itself in the body, mutates into perfectionism, and hides beneath the mask of high achievement.
-Hippocampus Magazine
"This book illustrates the high costs that eventually come due when we deny our own needs in favor of always pushing through. It bravely asserts that sometimes the strongest thing we can do is learn how to be soft."
—Tessa Hulls, author of Pulitzer Prize-wining Feeding Ghosts
“This book is a map for those who feel lost. An intimate look into the journey of healing.The daily routines, therapy sessions, and thought processes, show us that working to recover from trauma is never easy, but absolutely worthwhile.”
—Teresa Wong, author of All Our Ordinary Stories
“I wish it weren’t so easy to relate to this book. A deep, insightful, and dare I say, sometimes funny look at how we all deal with trauma.”
—Tom Hart, author of the New York Times bestseller Rosalie Lightning
“So many readers will find encouragement and validation from this fascinating story, as it sheds much-needed light on a difficult, misunderstood and lonely process. I loved it.”
—Sacha Mardou, author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy
"For anyone who is a recovering work-too-hard “badass,” this engaging book draws you in and offers a fresh perspective on the complexities of trauma and therapy and on the most intimate parts of our brains."
—Shay Mirk, author of Guantanamo Voices
"This generous memoir is also a complex,research-based, and layered roadmap for coping. I can’t stop thinking about it."
—MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, author of Taking Turns