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    Balancing Act Writing Through a Bipolar Life Gritty, inspiring, brave memoir of living with bipolar disorder. Balancing Act – Writing Through a Bipolar Life is a passionate tale of perseverance and courage. If you like gritty autobiographies, learning to heal, and finding strength by putting pen to paper, then you’ll adore Kitt O’Malley’s powerful memoir.…

  • Balancing Act Book Cover Reveal

    Balancing Act Book Cover Reveal

    Thank you, Michelle Hammer of HammerTimeDesign.com and Schizophrenic.NYC, for an absolutely awesome book cover design! Soon my memoir, Balancing Act: Writing Through a Bipolar Life, will be on the market! Thanks to everyone who has joined the Balancing Act Street Team Facebook group. I greatly appreciate your support in making my memoir a success.

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    Balancing Act Book Launch Street Team

    ARC, book launch, street team, Advanced Reader Copy, book review

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  • MY JOURNEY

    Links to my mental health journey with depression and bipolar disorder by stage of life.

  • Successes, Hopes, & Dreams

    Writing my story. Public speaker. Mental health advocate. Mother & wife. Purposeful life.

  • How I Cope

    Living well with bipolar means I must attend psychotherapy, use my hard-earned insight and arsenal of coping skills, and exercise self-care.

  • Acceptance

    Accepting that I have a mental illness has involved accepting myself as broken, as imperfect, as fallible, as human.

  • As a Mother

    Diagnosed bipolar when 39-year-old mother of toddler.

  • As a Working Adult

    Became psychotherapist. Worked with disturbed youth. Depressive episode treated with antidepressant medications led to psychotic mania.