Drowning in Now - Alicia Jean Demetropolis

. .

Résumé :
This memoir weaves together history with spirituality, exposes the author's fight against panic attacks and depression, and explores what it means to find oneself after becoming lost as she works to become a better person. Fifteen percent of the proceeds from the sale of each book goes to rescue homeless and abandoned elders around the world. In 2017, Alicia Jean Demetropolis traveled to Nepal to spend three months volunteering at an elder care facility. While there, she experienced the clash of cultures and the horrors of certain practices: animal sacrifice, children putting elderly parents out into the street, and the scorn and neglect heaped upon the vulnerable and homeless. Fighting to make things better, she found herself also fighting her own personal demons, as she came to question her life and her spiritual beliefs. In this recounting of her odyssey, Alicia navigates bigotry and bullying, faces election violence, encounters the kindness of strangers, and discovers the love and grace of new-found family. With Nepal as its backdrop, the author explores the intersection of faith and humanity as she searches for God at the top of the world.

Biographie:
Alicia Jean Demetropolis's short stories and photographs have been published in Tidepools, The Whales of Arcadia, Pulse, and other publications. With a Master's Degree in International Business and Finance, she quit the corporate world after 30 years of feeling like she was one of the few people around her with a moral compass. She is now a Certified Nurse's Aide and a Nurse Delegate, with more than twelve years' experience in elder care and end-of-life care. Her three months in Nepal inspired the birth of a global nonprofit, The Global Humanity Initiative, which helps to rescue homeless and abandoned elders around the world, and to give them a new family, a safe place to live, and unconditional love. Find out more at www.AliciaDemetropolis.com and www.GlobalHumanityInitiative.org....

Sommaire:
In 2017, Alicia Jean Demetropolis traveled to Nepal to spend three months volunteering at an elder care facility. While there, she found herself navigating bigotry and bullying, witnessed children putting their elderly parents out into the street, and saw the scorn and neglect that was heaped upon the vulnerable and homeless. Fighting to make things better, she found herself also fighting her own personal demons, as she began to question her life and her spiritual beliefs. In this recounting of her odyssey through a side of Nepal tourists rarely see, and with the beauty of the Himalayan mountains as its backdrop, the author explores the intersection of faith and humanity as she searches for God in this ancient corner of the world....