Creating a New Normal

An award-winning journalist and columnist Sylvia Coleman garnered most of her accolades chronicling the chaotic lives of others in her articles. On the outside she appeared to have it all: a burgeoning writing career a wonderful man and a supportive family. But behind closed doors her life was just as turbulent as some of the subjects of her award-winning articles. Sylvia was crumbling under a façade — enabling her alcoholic boyfriend and hiding a dysfunctional past filled with: bouts of clinical depression overeating stints of homelessness and haunting flashbacks of sexual abuse. It would take an unexpected tragedy to force her to finally deal with her past. “Creating a New Normal” describes in extraordinary detail Sylvia’s journey toward healing from what she describes as “a victim mentality.”