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B.L. Acker
B.L. Acker Quick Facts
Main Areas: Depression, Anxiety & PTSDBest Sellers: Unlovable: A Story of Abuse and Depression from Someone Drowning in the Abyss
Career Focus: Author, Blogger, Mental Health Advocate
I am a forty-one year old mother of three. I have survived physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuses, a failed marriage and a long engagement imploded by my partner’s repeated infidelities. I have been diagnosed with major depression, ptsd and anxiety disorder. I have many facets and have filled many roles. At different times in my life, I have been a student, a teacher, a mother, a daughter, a fiance, a wife, an artist, an author. Throughout my life, I have been both strong and courageous, weak and afraid. I may be a product of my experiences and choices, but I refuse to let them define me. After years of suffering in silence, I have found my voice.
My first book, Unlovable: A Story of Abuse and Depression from Someone Drowning in the Abyss, is available for purchase in both paperback and e-book versions on Amazon.com. It is also available in paperback at Barnes & Noble. My second book, Unbreakable, is available for purchase in both paperback and e-book versions on Amazon.com.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from B.L. Acker
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
― Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh, Pooh's Grand Adventure
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.” - Matrim Cauthon
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
“To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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B.L. Acker can be reached via email at: ackerbl415@gmail.com
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