Books
Intact: Untangle the Web of Bipolar Depression, Addiction, and Trauma
Starkly honest. Intact combines memoir, interviews, tips for fighting depression, poetry, and dark humor.
Between the ages of 18 and 26, author Sasha Kildare’s summers became drugs, sex, and psych wards. During manic episodes, she ended up in handcuffs and was raped several times. The integrative treatment she received at Bellevue Hospital, her seventh hospitalization, broke that cycle. She shares her compelling story, the knowledge, and insight that allowed her to overcome buried childhood trauma and addiction so that she could experience, motherhood, fulfilling careers, and long-term remission from bipolar depression.
“Compelling. As well as sharing her journey from bouts with psychosis to leading a healthy, productive life, Kildare spells out the many tools she uses to manage the symptoms of bipolar depression.”
—Joanne Doan, Entrepreneur & Publisher – Mental Health
Available at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
Dream Walking
Meet Georgia, a would-be dance choreographer and fashion designer. When compulsivity and bipolar depression collide, her creative outlet becomes picking up men.
Dream Walking is a coming-of-age novel set in 1980s New York City and Los Angeles. Doses of dark humor punctuate Georgia’s odyssey through surviving addiction, psych wards, the streets, and herself.
Dream Walking reads like Girl Interrupted meets 9 1/2 Weeks. Kildare’s Georgia makes a case that emotional pain is the most dangerous addiction of all.
—Skylar Rocket, ASCAP Music Award recipient, 2008-2013
Click here to watch a scene from my 2013 coming-of-age novel Dream Walking.
Made in L.A. Vol. 4 Beyond the Precipe (Contributor)
This anthology series showcases a diverse range of voices and genres inspired by this glorious, shape-shifting place: Los Angeles | El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles | L.A.
Like the City of Angles where these stories were born, nothing is off-limits. Literary or contemporary, fantasy or science fiction, each story in this volume invites you to view this urban landscape through a different lens.
Stories by: Nick Duretta, J.P. Higgins, Catie Jarvis, Sasha Kildare, Janna Layton, Kate Mo, Karter Mycroft, Aatif Rashid, Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley, Tiha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, Amy Jones Sedivy, Cristina Stuart, Rachael Warecki, Deborah Weiss, Hazel Kight Witham
Made in L.A. Editors: Cody Sisco, Gaby Lorino, Allison Rose, Sara Chisolm
