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Battle for Grace is about a seven-year-old girl who sees Funny Girl
and has a dream. To act, to dance and to sing. It's also about how
she becomes a woman whose life is virtually destroyed by a
crippling mystery illness and how she fights the institutions that
failed her. A woman who has lived an almost impossible love story
that began before her illness. Somehow she and the man who is her
reason for living, her caregiver and her partner in life have
managed to stick together for more than thirty difficult years.
Battle for Grace tells how she reinvents herself and turns tragedy
into triumph for millions of women worldwide. At the same time, she
transforms her life into something more beautiful and meaningful
than her original dreams of stardom. Ballerina Cynthia Toussaint's
promising career ended abruptly when a rehearsal injury that caused
excruciating pain remained undiagnosed for thirteen years. This
left her bedridden for a decade, unable to speak for five of those
years and often reduced to uncontrolled violence. Throughout all of
this, Toussaint's claims of pain were discounted by her HMO as
being all in her head-a frequent occurrence with women and their
doctors. Many people with her illness-sometimes called the Suicide
Disease-take their lives instead of contending with the pain.
Toussaint's story is about her refusal to be a victim. She not only
fought to survive, she has taken on the role of activist and
aggressively challenges the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies that
put profit ahead of patient care. Wheelchair bound, she founded a
nonprofit and entered the political arena as an advocate for women
in pain. Toussaint's memoir takes the reader on the roller coaster
life of a woman who sees every no as a future yes. Despite pain,
setbacks, abuse and betrayal, she holds her ground, finding in the
process the spotlight she'd always coveted. And a deeper meaning in
life than she ever expected.
It may start with a chance meeting or a casual smile. It could
begin at work, on a blind date, or at the end of a relationship or
a marriage. Every year, 3.4 million Americans are stalked by former
partners, by co-workers, by strangers. Despite these epidemic
numbers, all too often victims' complaints continue to be ignored.
Meanwhile, both the stalking dynamic and the toll it takes continue
to be misunderstood. National journalist, bestselling writer and
stalking expert Linden Gross provides all the necessary tools
readers need to know to handle inappropriate obsessive attention.
Readers will discover how to control their natural reactions (which
often put victims at a disadvantage), how to stop feeding the
obsessive interaction that perpetuates stalking situations, and how
to protect their privacy and safety. Gross explains how these
dangerous obsessions begin, the patterns they take, how targets can
protect themselves, and what potential victims can do before the
nightmare becomes a reality. Knowledge is power. Armed with
information and perspective, stalking victims can make the
decisions and choose the course of action that makes sense for
them. If you're a victim, Surviving a Stalker will teach you: How
to recognize and control actions and reactions that put you at risk
How to handle inappropriate attention online and off How to protect
your privacy and safety as well as the privacy and safety of your
loved ones How to break the stalking cycle and regain control of
your life If you're a professional who deal with stalking, the
multitude of case studies in Surviving a Stalker will provide you
with a clearer understanding of the crime and the devastating
impact it has on its targets. In addition to profiling stalkers and
their victims, Surviving a Stalker delves deeper into the subject,
offering critical insights on how best to handle stalking while
also covering police and legal issues, behavioral and psychological
patterns that lead to an escalation of violence. The author was
aided in her research by the prominent Los Angeles security
advisor, Gavin de Becker, who wrote the book's foreword. De Becker,
author of the national bestseller The Gift of Fear, is widely
regarded as our nation's leading expert on stalking. His work has
earned him three Presidential appointments, as well as a position
on a congressional committee on stalking.
Stalking may seem like something that happens only to celebrities.
In fact, it is an overlooked, yet extremely prevalent form of
domestic violence--far more widespread than many people suppose.
Now journalist Linden Gross provides all the necessary tools
readers need to know to handle inappropriate obsessive attention.
Readers will discover how to control their natural reactions (which
often put victims at a disadvantage), how to stop feeding the
obsessive interaction that perpetuates stalking situations, and how
to protect their privacy and safety. Gross explains how these
dangerous obsessions begin, the patterns they take, and what
potential victims can do before the nightmare becomes real.
Surviving a Stalker also draws on the expertise of psychologists
and offers secrets from personal security professionals.
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