Dancing With Demons

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a love story but not the one you're expecting.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For Laura Holloway-single mom to a teenage boy owner of a thriving pet-care</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>business-certain aspects of life have always felt elusive. Lasting romance. A secure sense of self in a disorienting world. A home of her own in the countryside with huge windows and land enough for llamas and goats.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now in the throes of middle age a dog attack brings an emotional reckoning forcing her to face the darkest parts of herself. Will she always feel the stifling grip of fear and loneliness? Can she manifest the inner peace she truly yearns for? Will she ever feel comfortable in this frightening world of humans when animals are so much easier to understand?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And so the dance begins-a dance with her demons. Through vulnerable journal entries written</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>over the course of three years Holloway recounts a period of candid transformation real-time. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the attractive man who finds his way into her heart but remains emotionally</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>unavailable to the psychedelic journeys that bring her deeper into herself unearthing the pain</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of her mother's early death and forgotten childhood trauma. Holloway invites her demons to be</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>nurtured; she makes them cups of tea then tucks them into bed wiping tears from their contorted faces. She chooses to love them one by one.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In doing so she finally breaks old patterns and starts that tentative pilgrimage down a new</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>path.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yes this is a love story. Not the one you're expecting but the one you need: a story about loving yourself and bringing your shadows back into the light.</span></p>