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"2024 International Book Awards Finalist in Poetry ""Gail Cloud's unique memoir is written in semi-poetic style of the Greek classics. The reader watches her dance her way past complicated emotional roadblocks, increasingly creative, determined, graceful, and wise."" -Susan Margolis Balk, Founding Director of HateBrakers/New Conscience; Retired Columbia University Professor & Former Literary Editor at Playboy Therapist's Daughter delves into one woman's internal perceptions of her enigmatic father. Gail Cloud's memoir in verse chronicles the cost and consequences we suffer when we are taught not to believe in us but to believe in another-followed by the powerful journey back to ourselves-where we see and own our truths, and create lives of integrity and meaning. In Part One: HIM, she paints a sensory portrait of who her father was, not just to her, but as a complex soul we may come to empathize with through her memories of good times at breakfast, and his simple love of baseball. Tenderness offers contrast to early confusing, traumatic experiences affecting many father-daughter bonds. In Part Two: ME, we meet Gail the daughter, the dancer, as well as her kindreds, and what it is like to be lied to while believing the lie. In Part Three: COMING UNDONE, we witness her dad's demise, his fall into dementia, and her virgin encounter with the truth. In Part Four: MY DANCE, this poet's verse carries us on the wings of her growth and indepen-dance, as she pirouettes to a place of acceptance and offers us all a new story of flourishing within."

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After her first career as a dancer and teacher of ballet and modern dance, Gail Cloud, DC, realized that she wanted a career more service-oriented. She chose a practice that kept her dancing for many years-chiropractic work. Today Gail is a practicing chiropractor and an Inherited Trauma facilitator, working with somatic healing. She is also an astrologer, focusing on our growth and evolving selves, what gets in our way, and what strengths we possess to help us with our process.Gail began writing this memoir in 2020, and through writing, discovered that using poetry was the best way for her to express her thoughts and feelings with such a personal and vulnerable subject. When not writing, she is walking with her dog, continuing her learning, enjoying time with her friends and husband, and has even started taking ballet lessons again. You can connect with Gail online through her chiropractic practice, Body Presencing, based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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