Kindle Edition Amazon Category:  Psychology ISBN-10:  1505389690 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 250 Copyright: 12/04/2014 ISBN-13: 9781505389692 Price: $4.99 (eBook) Pallas De Fiore, an eccentric and gutsy performing artist bang in the crosshairs of midlife, is stalked by a mean case of anorexia nervosa, which she has dubbed The Beast. This frustrating, frightening, and utterly illogical disease is a lethal opponent against which she has no insurance, so treatment seems unlikely. Fed up with watching Pallas’s hijacked brain surrender her spirit to human enablers, societal stigma, and her own ambivalence, several of her friends opt to take action. Will the stubborn US healthcare system open its doors so she can regain her creative core and embark on a recovery adventure?       Excerpt I enter a forest; it's stark enough to see limbs hugging cold birch trunks. It knows that some of the sturdier trees are in peril, too, and does not know what to do. Its population bears no one shape or color, cannot be sexed. I am a feature of this forest—withered, knobby. Some say I'm a dying reed and others claim it's my kind that is going extinct — not because the disease that gnaws our bark, sap and soul is obsolescent — we are dwindling in numbers because it is killing us. It. Kills. Us. 1 I am a complex willow of a woman. There are many things that I do and have-—multiple interests, passions, loves, and little plagues. They are branches extending from the core that I view as I. When I try (and try and try) to fade out and become static, when even the skin of my face goes gray, writing my story feels somehow opulent. When I am utterly confounded that my heart is still beating, that my kidneys, liver, brain, and muscles still function in spite of my every attempt to minimize and shed them, saying here I am can seem like an obscene riddle.

a phenomenal and brave story
This is a disease that assaults and lies, engaging its host in a battle of wills. ‘Ghosts in Bones’ is a phenomenal and brave story that takes the reader on a journey to the depths of the eating disorder darkness.
—Grace Summer - author of 'I Will Not Give Up On My Daughter'


'Ghosts In Bones' shares the stark and terrifying truth about living as an adult with an eating disorder.
On the surface Pallas is a carefree, creative and beautiful woman. But the 'beast' that lurks in her mind tells a different story. 'Ghosts In Bones' shares the stark and terrifying truth about living as an adult with an eating disorder. The torrid confusion caused by this debilitating mental illness is evident, and Serena (as Pallas) lays this out with courage and honesty. Despite recent advances in the understanding of eating disorders, it is clear from her suffering and difficulties accessing appropriate treatment with state insurance that so much more needs to be done. This is an eye-opening book.
—Cate Sangster - author of 'Ed Says U Said' and 'Food to Eat'