My Multifaceted Wonder Order

By Ginger Freedom

Memoir as process supporting the recovery journey, this project, many years in the making, tells the story of how art saved my life. The simple commitment to harness a strong sense of life work as a creative and allowing for that to become a primary healing modality enabling me to fully recover from the effects of extreme abuse. It is told from two perspectives, Dylan, the visual artist in my integrated Multifaceted Wonder Order (reframing Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personality Disorder, PTSD, Panic, Anxiety, Depressive Episodes). It stands apart from other memoirs that bravely share, in graphic detail, what constitutes extreme abuse, ritual abuse, and mind control by illustrating the recovery journey through the art that became a by-product of this journey: drawings, paintings, poems, journaling, dances, theatre. It is the third and final episode of the Patchwork Chameleon Chronicles. The first two episodes, previously published, are including within this memoir.

Amazon Reviewer
Tessa
Ginger Freedom’s memoir is essential reading for all those who share an interest in the human mind. Freedom states that one of her motivations in writing the Patchwork Chameleon Chronicles is to provide hope through a narrative of recovery for others who likewise suffer from PTSD and experience Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), but the scope of the narrative and poetry of the writing creates a work that transcends even this important agenda. As someone with very little knowledge of PTSD and DID Freedom’s memoir was a truly eye-opening read. Freedom’s memoir forced me to reconsider many of preconceived notions about mental health disorders, the ways we treat them and the destructive taboo that surrounds our discussion of them. I was left with a greater respect and understanding of the human mind and its capacity for creativity and survival. Moreover Freedom’s writing was compulsively readable. I downloaded the book late one evening and read it all in two great gulps. In many ways Anne’s story reads like mystery, in which the crime scene is the depth of the human mind and the stakes are truly life or death. I eagerly await part two!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ginger Freedom
• Release date: Sep 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311547491

Ginger Freedom

The author graduated with highest honors with a degree in dance/business economics from a large university and went on to earn her MFA in the Arts. She began processing the effects of extreme abuse while a dance major in college and continued her educational pursuits while in recovery. Upon graduation she founded a dance company which has grown into an international arts collective. Additionally, she co-founded its affiliated 501 (c) 3. She has realized many projects with a high degree of success as a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, and producer. She has had solo exhibitions in Vienna, New York, and Santa Barbara. Her choreography has been performed extensively on the West Coast, abroad in Europe, and on the East Coast. Press quotes range from “astonishingly gifted” with the local press to “perfect dance poetics” with international press. She has been active in the field of the arts as a groundbreaker and visionary actively working to shift the paradigm in how the arts organize harnessing principles of conscious leadership in interest of “being the change” she longs for in the world. In addition to her work in the field of the arts, she has chosen for her primary income to come from other sources in order to have the greatest degree of creative freedom as an artist. One of her “bread and butter gigs” was in the field of alternative dispute resolution. She received a certification in mediation and went on to become a published Ombuds author in this field. She has two articles coming out in the next edition of Survivorship, one that reflects on the process, two decades later; and a second which suggests development of an expanded pain scale pertinent to survivors of extreme trauma. She is currently working on a book project that collates what she has learned from 20 years as a dance maker with hopes that it will become a resource guide for emerging dance makers. She has a dream of establishing “wholeness centers” that serve both as artistic residencies, and retreat centers for trauma survivors. Her current interest lies in completing her book projects and then beginning to channel her energy into pursuing the dream of establishing “wholeness centers.”