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Sue William Silverman is a speaker and author and is best known for her two memoirs. Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award Series in Creative Nonfiction. Her memoir, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction, was made into a Lifetime TV Original Movie. Her poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon. Her new book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir. As a professional speaker and writer, Sue has appeared on many nationally syndicated radio and TV programs including The View, Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN; a John Stossel Special on ABC-TV; CNN-Headline News; the Montel Williams Show; the Ricki Lake Show; and the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. She was also featured in an episode of "The Secret Lives of Women" on WE-TV.
Sue teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Tell me about Love Sick
Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction recounts my
search for sobriety from sexual obsession and dangerous men.
This memoir is structured around twenty-eight days I spent in a rehab
facility, with flashbacks to my college years in Boston, an early marriage in
Galveston, and a life of sex and self-destructive behavior, until, finally,
addicted to danger itself, I hit an emotional and spiritual bottom. At this
point, with the help of a trusted therapist, I enter rehab. During this
tumultuous month, I overcome my addictive belief that sex is love, a belief I
trace back to my father's sexual abuse of me as a child. Now, forced to interact
with my therapist and the other women on the rehab unit, I break the emotional
isolation in which I've lived. Finally, I begin to discover the difference
between the high of dangerous encounters and the more reliable promise of love.
What motivated you to write it?
In my first memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You,
I focus on my incestuous childhood. While I introduce the adult healing process,
I don't fully explore it, because at the time I wrote "Terror, Father"
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