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Ríona's Awakening
http://www.rionasawakening.blogspot.com
The blog ‘Ríona’s Awakening’ is the launching pad for the author’s novel ‘In Clíodhna’s Wake.’ Both blog and book develop side by side as Moriah Ríona Tregoning awakens character and spirit in her stirring stories and anecdotes. The book, ‘In Clíodhna’s Wake’ captures the life of a twenty-three year old recluse, Clíodhna Flynn, who searches for family among strangers and a cure for the disease that locked her away from the world for so many years. The young woman is diagnosed bi-polar type II, a scarcely understood disease that is currently gaining recognition aboung the mental health community. The book follows her struggle as she battles the demons of recobery and investigates the meaning of family. The character and reader alike discover that family has little to do with conventional households and blood ties. The book advocates mental illness awareness and treatment as well as alternative lifestyles and human rights.
- Added on: Nov 27th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Moriah Ríona Tregoning
- Listed in: Writing Beliefs & Causes
- Tags: bipolar depression anxiety GLBT human rights gay marriage
Recent Posts
Pardon Me
Sorry a thousand times over! Oh, how I have neglected thee... but you have been in my heart. Ugh! Life gets the better of me sometimes... well, my absence was by no excuse to be taken lightly - I graduated last week! Yes, I did, I finally did and...
The New Year
The New YearWhat hope a new year brings with anticipation for the happenings within the next 356 days. What is it? What is your dream? Right now anything is possible.My dream is to finally finish my book and make great things come of it. Growing ...
Panic Revisited
I guess I thought I was better than it. I guess I thought that I had prescriptively out grown it. I guess I was wrong…I almost gave up today… Gave in. I almost threw away the last 14 months of my studies. I almost gave away my dream career. ...
Last Goodbye
There is a Jeff Buckley song, Last Goodbye, which is playing in my ears as I write. The melody lulls and pulls at you while his voice gently commands your attention. I am reflecting on my heroine, Clíodhna, and her story. I am nearing the end. A...
Forget Me Not
I don’t remember things anymore. My medication has taken that away from me. I can be in the middle of a conversation and forget that which I was just speaking of. Though, I do remember hearing my grandmother talking to my parents about her faili...
Transcendence
I may write into the wee hours of the night but by day I am a cosmetologist. Actually I am a cosmetology student. I am going to – for lack of a better word – beauty school. When I graduate and pass the state boards I will be a licensed cosmeto...
