Learning to Stay

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>Helping Professionals Patients and Their Families Find Healing</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><em>Learning to Stay </em>delivers a powerful and redemptive account of Michelle O'Neil's journey-from a teenager engulfed by mental illness and a life-threatening eating disorder to a licensed mental health professional who offers hope and healing to others.</p><p></p><p>O'Neil's story offers both inspiration for those struggling and a crucial wake-up call for mental health professionals by:</p><p></p><ul><li>Confronting the mental health system's failures and advocating for trauma-informed care</li><li>Transforming pain into purpose through faith-based healing and professional calling</li><li> Exposing how well-intentioned but harmful treatment practices retraumatize vulnerable patients</li><li>Empowering readers with practical insights for their own recovery journeys</li></ul><p></p><p>With unflinching honesty and unwavering hope O'Neil reveals how deep wounds can forge unexpected strength-and how healing is not only possible but transformative.</p>