The Sensitive One: A Memoir

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At age fifty, Susan Morris is diagnosed with breast cancerand shes floored. Desperate to pinpoint the cause, one night she decides to type a question into her search engine: What are the risk factors of getting breast cancer Shes surprised to discover research showing that long-term exposure to stress and traumatic childhood experiences can both increase the risk of breast cancer.
The Sensitive One is a braided memoir that alternates between Morriss childhoodas a sensitive child and then teenager who shouldered the burden of caring for her younger siblings as her dads alcoholism tore at the threads of their home lifeand an adult who for a decade-plus has been living a trauma-free life with a caring husband and rewarding career in nursing . . . only to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
This is a story of redemptionof a woman who manages to escape harrowing circumstances and start anewbut its also a story of how our legacy lives within us, and how healing from the adverse effects of childhood can truly take a lifetime.

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2021 Foreword Indie Gold Winner in Autobiography & Memoir

Susan Morris weaves together a compelling memoir, taking the reader through the darkness of childhood abuse and its effects on a family, an individual life, and a body. As a somatic psychotherapist specializing in trauma, her story is an act of compassion reflecting her lifes journey in attempts to understand, heal, and transform.
Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, C-IAYT, author of Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating

Susan Morriss courageous story The Sensitive One will inspire you to learn how healing is possible despite a lifetime of traumas, physical and emotional. Susan shows that love, joy in life, therapy, and a gritty determination to overcome it all are a powerful combination to change darkness to light and live a richer life.
Linda Joy Myers, president of the National Association of Memoir Writers and author of Song of the Plains

Morriss insights into how adverse childhood experiences influence our health later in life are cutting-edge. The book is a delight to read. I am sure that it will become loved by women and their families, particularly those who are living through the diagnosis of breast cancer.
Rebecca G. Rogers, MD

Author Bio

Susan Frances Morris was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, the second-oldest of seven siblings with two sets of twins. She was a practicing nurse from 1989 to 2011, primarily in womens health.The highlight of her career was the time she spent at Yale New Haven Hospital working in nursing management alongside international experts in the field of womens health. She met her current husband, Bruce, in 1989. Her passions are walking and bike riding in nature, yoga, traveling, photography, and jewelry design. She has three grown children and four grandchildren. Susan lives with her husband and two dogs in Clifton Park, New York.