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"Word  Barf Your 

Effing  Story"

(My not-so-pretty testament of quietly battling mental illness for three decades)

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Word Barf® Your Effing Story is:

A book about coming out of the closet and admitting to 30 years of mental struggle - because no one knew the depth. A book for people who hid(e) their thoughts and inner conflict. Who think the only way forward is to pretend to be normal. Who think their struggles are their fault which deepens the shame. Who could benefit from the act of Word Barf®, the courageous process of telling the world that they aren’t ok.  To let it all out and truly begin the process of healing.

Lizzy Hamilton

“I laughed, I cried, but mostly I appreciated someone else who has similar disorders to me being able to share her experience. Before reading this book, I felt really alone in some of my weird quirks and survival skills. Now I feel understood and not so isolated.”

Stacey - publisher, author and editor

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My Story

I never had plans to continue this personal crusade of battling mental illness in this 'loud' manner.  You could say I was at my wits end and my body and soul just knew I NEEDED to tell my own unfiltered and raw effing story.  I turned on my favourite angry music and, what I call, word 'barfed' my story out on my keyboard.

 

I wrote almost every day for four months and 'released' all of my repressed stories and experiences that still held power inside of me.  While mental illness can not be cured through the simple act of writing out your own unfiltered story, I know, having experienced over thirty years of mental illness and participated in over 500 cognitive behavioural therapy sessions, even now, the act of writing out my story has had a tremendous therapeutic effect.

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You cannot
self-diagnose, but..

..as a result of our current world's 'mental climate', and the difficulty it is getting mental health help, it is imperative that people do whatever they can to learn and heal themselves.

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Me and My Mental Life

Moods

“Don’t be ‘Lizzy’”, “You’re too sensitive”, “Chin up you have so much to be grateful for”, “Ditch Pig”, “Something is wrong with you”.  Words I heard growing up.  Certainly, I know now, their comments have more to do with them than me.  But overall, what I heard and what I grew to believe was, “you’re not ok just being you”. 

Trauma Without Trauma?

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Yes! It’s scary, it’s uncomfortable, it’s emotionally messy.  Sharing stuff about our past might bring forward discomforting thoughts about what will happen after you disclose your scary stuff.  But, THAT is an assumption.  

Word Barf - An Appendage
to the Diary

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My entertaining, yet harrowing, debut self-help book ‘Word Barf Your Effing Story’ will inject a tear and dark chortle from the reader.  Unexpectedly, however, the process of writing down this story and trying to get it published resulted in healing.

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