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Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art shows the perspective of a person who has a serious mental illness, who survives extreme treatments, who both family and the health system have given up on, but who defies all expectations and common beliefs of what is possible.<\/p>\n
Along the way, the author describes the role of art in her survival, grappling with how the life force can be either nurtured or destroyed by elements in our environment, such as nature, beauty, and art versus dehumanization and coercion.<\/p>\n
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A book that can teach everyone something<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Meghan’s eloquent way of telling her story is both powerful and inspiring. She is unafraid to take the narrative of mental health and how it has impacted her into her own hands and show the raw, unfiltered reality of living with a diagnosis. Her artwork gives her words an even more meaningful impact. Meghan and her story are one of perseverance, bravery, and hope that will inspire every reader.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n Mud Flower opens with \u201cI found myself wandering from room to room\u201d and ends with \u201cI am in the middle of the fire. I am here.\u201d The book is the life lived in between. It\u2019s a book of bravery, courage and adventure, but not the Disney version. There isn\u2019t a happy ending or a simple moral to the story. There is ambiguity and nuance; brilliance and tragic error; heartbreak and joy. Meghan gets you thinking. She really gets you thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Header” _builder_version=”4.9.7″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(255,255,255,0.1)” background_color_gradient_end=”#ebdb52″ background_color_gradient_direction=”124deg” background_color_gradient_start_position=”30%” background_color_gradient_end_position=”90%” background_image=”https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ebook-17-2.png” background_position=”bottom_center” custom_padding=”1vw||1vw||true|false” border_color_all=”#31d190″][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”4″ _builder_version=”4.9.7″ background_size=”contain” background_position=”bottom_center” max_width=”1280px” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”40px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”0vw|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Times New Roman|800||on|||||” header_text_color=”#333333″ header_font_size=”4vw” header_line_height=”1.1em” header_3_font=”Times New Roman||on||||||” header_3_font_size=”26px” custom_margin=”30px||30px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height_tablet=”1.8em” text_line_height_phone=”1.7em” text_line_height_last_edited=”off|phone” header_font_size_tablet=”8vw” header_font_size_phone=”10vw” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” sticky_enabled=”0″] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meghancaughey.com\/mud-flower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}