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Winner of the 2012 Reader's Favorite Memoir Award, The Box of Daughter is the compelling true story of the author's struggle to recover from childhood emotional abuse, and her quest to raise her self-esteem and create a more authentic life.In her twenties and thirties, the author pursued a professional acting career, appearing Off-Broadway, in independent films, and on the daytime drama Guiding Light. Entering therapy in her thirties in response to a divorce, she began to unravel the threads of dysfunction in her family.More than a decade later, armed with the truth about her family, she sought to understand the challenges her parents faced and recover from the trauma while simultaneously acting as the family caregiver for her parents in their late 80s and early 90s. Freed from the abuse by the deaths of her parents in 2005 and 2008, the author began an inspiring journey to wholeness--developing self-esteem, uncovering her true self, and finally creating a life that is truly her own.

Katherine Mayfield is the award-winning author of "The Box of Daughter: Healing the Authentic Self"; "Bullied: Why You Feel Bad Inside and What to Do About It," a guide to recovery for teens and adults who have been bullied; two books on the acting business: "Smart Actors, Foolish Choices" and "Acting A to Z," both published by Back Stage Books; the Kindle book "Dysfunctional Families: The Truth Behind the Happy Family Facade"; and a book of poetry, "The Box of Daughter and Other Poems." "The Box of Daughter" won awards in both the 2012 New England Book Festival and Reader's Favorite Book Awards, and was nominated as a Finalist in the 2013 Maine Literary Awards. Ms. Mayfield also won the Honorable Mention award in the 2011 Warren Adler Short Story Contest for her short story "The Last Visit," which is based on the last time she visited her father in hospice care.She has been published in Dance Teacher Now magazine, Dance Spirit magazine, The Significato Journal online, Sasee magazine, The Women's Times, the Greenfield Recorder, and on Women.com, Fiftyshift.com, and numerous other websites.She loves writing, painting, jigsaw puzzles, and cats, and teaches writing in Maine. She blogs on Dysfunctional Families on her website, TheBoxofDaughter.com.