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Vienna's Waiting
Vienna's Waiting
Vienna's Waiting
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An intensely personal journey of anguish, solitude, and despair.


At 14, Georgia was on top of the world. Her life as a teenager was filled with hope and promise, until a mysterious pain developed in her back and legs.


When doctors failed to help, she spiraled into hopelessness.


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Release dateDec 16, 2023
ISBN9781970022773
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Georgia Huston Weston

A longtime sufferer of chronic pain, Georgia wrote this book while a student at Notre Dame High School. She also founded the Teen Pain Help Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable corporation created to help children and adolescents with chronic pain. Georgia then served as the Executive Director, raising funds for treatment, research, education, and increased public awareness of pediatric chronic pain. Afterward, she attended St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, with a minor in art. As a student she worked as an intern counseling at-risk children and youths for the state of Texas, and she helped seniors and the mentally challenged with art projects. She also wrote a second book on pain.Georgia went on to receive a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California, with a concentration in Children, Youth, and Families, as well as a focus in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She also co-founded and was the Director of Programming for Art Rx, strengthening the partnership between the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the USC Keck School of Medicine, specifically to better understand how art impacts pain. Georgia has experience creating and leading programs for organizations that provide therapeutic services for struggling individuals and families. She also has clinical social work experience, both as an outpatient therapist and residential therapist, for youth dealing with complex cognitive, behavioral, and social needs. And, she has been a Research Associate with the UCLA Pediatric Pain Research Program.From 2019 through 2022, Georgia served as the Executive Director of Creative Healing for Youth in Pain (CHYP), a nonprofit that provides educational resources, creative healing experiences, and social support for youth with chronic pain and their parents (www.mychyp.org).In recognition of her humanitarian services, Georgia received the David Chow Humanitarian Foundation Award for 2019. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Georgia currently works as a mental health therapist. And, she is the author of two other books on chronic pain.

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