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Unprotected: A Memoir is Rae Lewis Thornton’s captivating story of what happened to her as a child and how it helped to shape the trajectory of her life. Living in a continuous cycle of trauma—rejection, violence, and childhood sexual molestation with no one to protect her, Rae’s abnormal environment becomes her normal existence.
Rae situates her story within the research on childhood trauma. That is, high doses of trauma causes a deregulation of the stress response system. This disruption of normal cortisol pattern’s during a child’s developmental stages can change the biology of a child’s brain and body causing, a short attention span, hyperactivity, learning disabilities and lead to poor social and medical outcomes through adulthood. Rae’s story fits squarely into the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study, published in 1998 by Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control, which demonstrates the connection between childhood abuse and household dysfunction to leading causes of death and dysfunction in adults. Deregulation becomes Rae’s reality, and she gives you a front-row seat to Little Rae as she treads through a world.
By the age of twenty-four, Rae is diagnosed with HIV. She chronicles her journey from HIV to AIDS and situates her life in the dichotomy between the early days of the AIDS pandemic and as a major force and political organizer for notable giants in politics, such as, Mayor Harold Washington, President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson and Senator Carol Moseley Braun. Her diagnosis of HIV is shrouded in secrecy and shame as she navigates dating, disclosure, and the first generation of antiretroviral drugs. Rae’s transparency and self-awareness are both shocking and heartfelt. Today, almost three decades after Essence and four decades of living with HIV, Rae tells all—the trauma that shaped her life, and how she survived the odds and continued to soar with a broken wing.
Book Essentials
Self -Published Hardcover with Dust Jacket
454 pages
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-7378912-0-8
E-Book ISBN:`978-1-7378912-1-5
Bulk Purchases for Organization/Company: Contact Publisher, info@unprotectedamemoir.com
May 18, 2022
Available at Bookstore and Online Retailers Nationwide
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