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"That Beautiful Elsewhere is Scherezade Siobhan’s deeply personal exploration of mental health, weaving memoir, psychology, culture and lived experience into stories that resist the neatness of diagnosis. Moving between the intimate and the political, the book asks what it means to live with a mind that refuses to fit the worlds built around it."
I once wrote "Break often, not like waves but like porcelain." Little did I know the fact of being thrown from the nest would become the theme of my life both as an individual and as a writer and clinician.
All my life I felt like I didn't belong anywhere. There was this underlying antithesis of "The Beautiful Elsewhere" following me like a cloud of farsickness.
As I got older, I realised that existence is a journey of small moments. Our homelands are built as much in stories, memories and radical vulnerability as much in brick and mortar houses.
That is the path to how this book came into being. It combines my knowledge of the human mind with my work experience to create a collection of essays that become someone's comforting nook of belonging. Of being witnessed without judgment. Each one of these is a story about real people and the challenges they face – from living with bipolar disorder to the aftershocks of abuse.
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