Kicking and screaming : a memoir of madness and martial arts / Melanie D. Gibson.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2020.Description: xiv, 261 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781647420284
- 1647420288
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Main Library | Biography | GIBSON, M. G449 | Available | 33111010507446 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Melanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiplecollege degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had afew mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rottenrelationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a goodkick in the pants, literally and metaphorically.
In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanieturned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial artof taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered her WestTexas childhood taekwondo instructors' Grandmaster operated a taekwondoschool a few miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas--and she decidedto start her training over as a white belt.
In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start in more ways thanone. She found an inner peace she'd never known before, a sense ofcommunity, a newfound confidence, and a positive outlook on life. Thekicking and screaming she was doing in class quieted the long-termkicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is the story of Melanie's life-changing journey from troubled, lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.