Through Thick and Thin - Carolyn Roy-Bornstein

Through Thick and Thin

One Foster Family's Eating Disorder Journey
Buch | Softcover
203 Seiten
2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8731-5 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Outlines the struggles of a fledgling foster family who, despite all odds, remains devoted to one another throughout the healing process.
Pediatrician Carolyn Roy-Bornstein and her husband had a comfortably empty nest after their sons had grown and flown. Soon after, Carolyn noticed that two of her patients struggled after their father died of cancer and their mother became too mentally ill to care for them. As a result, they were both placed in foster care, where one developed a severe eating disorder and the other began self-harming.

In a leap of faith, Carolyn and her husband opened their home to these sisters and became their foster parents. Carolyn, despite being a doctor, was unprepared for the harsh realities of severe anorexia, depression and grueling treatment. She had worked as a pediatrician for the Department of Children and Families for years, but still was not equipped for the bureaucratic struggles she would face to save her youngest foster child from a brutal eating disorder. This book outlines the struggles of a fledgling foster family who, despite all odds, remains devoted to one another throughout the healing process.

Carolyn Roy-Bornstein’s work has been published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Poets & Writers and many other places. She lives with her family on the North Shore of Boston.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Section I—In the Beginning

Prologue

One. A Loving Leap of Faith

Two. Where Is Home?

Three. Insiders

Four. A Relationship in Venn Diagrams

Five. Facing Demons

Six. It Takes Courage to Believe

Section II—In the Throes

Seven. Boarding the Struggle Bus

Eight. Together, Alone

Nine. Warding Off Demons

Ten. Not Enough Tears in the World

Eleven. The Sign

Twelve. This Is How I Lose Her

Thirteen. The Standoff

Fourteen Living in the Slipstream

Section III—In Coda

Fifteen. A Rocky Road Gets Rockier

Sixteen. As Close to Death as This

Seventeen. The Fight of Our Lives

Eighteen. Doubling Down on Love

Epilogue

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Familie / Erziehung
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychosomatik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-4766-8731-5 / 1476687315
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-8731-5 / 9781476687315
Zustand Neuware
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