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Michaela Parker, Bestselling Author✨

Feb 12, 2023

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Childhood Secrets - Memoir in-progress

A collection of poems, stories, and essays from my forthcoming memoir about my experiences with childhood trauma, racial trauma, and mental illness. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll be glad to be you and not me. You'll be hungry for more.

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Michaela Parker, Bestselling Author✨

Medium Writer Michaela Parker Releases Debut Memoir on Amazon — Get Your Free Copy

Free Promo Feb 8–9, 2023

Feb 8, 2023

Book cover — In front of a sunlight window, a mahogany baby grand a toothy grin and lifted lid invites readers to pull up a bench and a play a while. Sheet music wall paper, tattered and torn, belies the piano’s attempt at happiness. So does its wood grain eyes.

Feb 8, 2023

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Michaela Parker, Bestselling Author✨

The Scary Reason I Quit Binge Drinking as a Teenager in College — Memoir Book Chapter

And how I found love agape

Feb 14, 2022

Kermit The Frog lying on wooden bench surrounded by glass bottles. Kermit appears drunk with a bottle of clear bottle presumed to be vodka in one hand and a brown bottle presumed to be beer in the other. He’s lying on his back with his mouth open and one leg hanging over the back of the bench.

Feb 14, 2022

About the book

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Michaela Parker, Bestselling Author✨

New Memoir about Trauma and Triumph

My journey of post-traumatic survival and healing

Jan 9, 2021

A dancing woman appears to emerge from a pool of dark pink liquid

Jan 9, 2021

What readers are saying

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Global Praise for New Memoir — Trauma and Triumph

Or kind words from people on the Internet

Jan 23, 2021

Thank You note that says “Thanks for existing in my little galaxy” attached to a small, colorful bottle

Jan 23, 2021

My thoughts about going public with my childhood secrects

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Standing Naked in Public

My Most Vulnerable Story on the Internet

Dec 16, 2020

Person in with eyes closed and arms wrapped around their own cold, naked body

Dec 16, 2020

My thoughts about writing this memoir without professional mental health support

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Michaela Parker, Bestselling Author✨

On My Own — Recalling Childhood Trauma without a Therapist

Painful memories come rushing back at the worst possible times

Jan 9, 2021

Greyscale portrait of a young Black woman with braids and tears of gold streaming down her face

Jan 9, 2021

Book Excerpt 1, long version

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Book Excerpt 1, short version

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Book excerpt 2

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