Susan Gold - Toxic Family

https://www.susangold.us/ Author of Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom Speaking Points: Ina small rural town in central Pennsylvania,young Susie is facing trauma as the middle child in a violent andchaotic household. Her brilliant, alcoholic, astrophysicist father and equallyingenious mentally ill, homemaking mother have collided in dysfunction.Creating five children in short succession covert and overt abuse is runningrampant. Hurt and damaged children are raising more hurt and damaged children. A riveting and intense chronicle of a childhood filled withharsh initiations all led to a masterful and thought-provoking transformation.The ebullient belief and determination of a young girl with a vision who wouldnot bend to self-destruct but rather would convert her experience to triumphare told masterfully in this stunning work. Like a breath of fresh air, Susan refuses to fitthe everyday norm of looking to follow like a lemming. She's traversing andhurdling her way up and over traditional splintering systems. She's meetingcompetition and jealousy with kindness while soaring to thrive. In recoveryfrom addiction, Susan shows us how she leans into her energeticstrength as an empath to heal and move forward while unknowingly healing othersalong the way. Once the journey is complete for thisopus, Susan leaves us with support and some of the practical toolsshe used and uses today to move forward. The appendix is an experientialworkbook matching each chapter of the book, with interactional tools centeredaround each section's theme: breathwork, journaling, meditation, movement, andthe voice all combine in a creative healing process. With rural roots in central Pennsylvania, Susan Gold wasraised in a challenging and chaotic family system, the middle child of five.Her dream was to exit for New York City or the sunny skies of LA, which both didmanifest. To fully thrive, she bravely chose to meet the demons of herupbringing that were continuing to repeat. Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom is that journey. Leaving her little town behind the morning after High Schoolgraduation, Susan rarely ever looked back. While in college as ajunior at Ohio University, she created an internship inarts management navigating her way to her dream, NYC. Her experience withperforming artists like Bill T. Jones, and Paul Zaloom led her into the worldof mainstream entertainment after college, first at the global talent agency,ICM and later FOX. Within the entertainment industry, Susan becameknown for attaching celebrity talent to projects which led her into producingfor television and film and a move to Los Angeles. Susan convinced modern art legend Andy Warhol to do anon-camera commercial for Pontiac; locked a talent deal for American TVpersonality Donnie Deutsch, which he still claims as one of his best; helpedlaunch FOX News Channel at the request of Chair, Roger Ailes; and on behalf ofDisney Channel, persuaded A-list celebrities including Ben Stiller, Jack Black,Taylor Swift, David Beckham and more to be interviewed by the cartooncharacters, Phineas & Ferb. In addition to Susan's business background, she is adecorated endurance athlete having competed in three marathons, dozens oftriathlons, and has the distinction of finishing third in her age group at thetreacherous Escape from Alcatraz event.Hanging up the grueling demands of her swim, bike, run focus she turned tocompeting as a Master’s swimmer and within four years achieved multiple top tennational rankings including third in the country in the 400 IM.