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This is a love story, but not the one you're expecting. For Laura Holloway-single mom to a teenage boy, owner of a thriving pet-care business-certain aspects of life have always felt elusive. Lasting romance. A secure sense of self in a disorienting world. A home of her own in the countryside, with huge windows and land enough for llamas and goats. Now in the throes of middle age, a dog attack brings an emotional reckoning, forcing her to face the darkest parts of herself. Will she always feel the stifling grip of fear and loneliness? Can she manifest the inner peace she truly yearns for? Will she ever feel comfortable in this frightening world of humans when animals are so much easier to understand? And so the dance begins-a dance with her demons. Through vulnerable journal entries written over the course of three years, Holloway recounts a period of candid transformation, real-time. From the attractive man who finds his way into her heart but remains emotionally unavailable, to the psychedelic journeys that bring her deeper into herself, unearthing the pain of her mother's early death and forgotten childhood trauma. Holloway invites her demons to be nurtured; she makes them cups of tea, then tucks them into bed, wiping tears from their contorted faces. She chooses to love them, one by one. In doing so, she finally breaks old patterns and starts that tentative pilgrimage down a new path. Yes, this is a love story. Not the one you're expecting, but the one you need: a story about loving yourself, and bringing your shadows back into the light.

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DANCING WITH DEMONS is a lyrical and luminous memoir by Laura Holloway that grapples with profound questions such as: How do we honor this precious gift of being human and the brief time we have on earth? What if we are among those whose hearts break with the pain of the world and have loved and lost one too many times? What if we have walked through the fires of life, intimately knowing what it's like to dance with our darkness, yet sometimes wondering if it will swallow us whole? A book for sensitive souls, big-feeling beings, animal rescuers, and lovers of the natural world, with remarkable emotional depth, Holloway pays poetic tribute to the exquisite beauty of life and the heartache of love, inviting us on an intimate journey through her own explorations and struggles. By the final pages of Dancing with Demons, we embrace Laura's reminder that life's challenges do not get wrapped up in pretty packages but rather they come together and fall apart over and over again. And, dancing with that is the true mystery of life. -Kristen Moeller, MS, literary agent, and author of What Are You Waiting For? and Phoenix Rising: Stories of Remarkable Women Walking through Fire Dancing With Demons is quite possibly the most intimate look into someone's life I've ever read. Told with heart-cracked-open honesty, Holloway draws you into the tiny world of her internal life and makes it feel as big as a universe. I laughed, I cried, and I saw the most private version of myself reflected back. Who knew dancing with demons could be so thrilling. - Laura Thomas, author of The Magic of Well-Being (or whatever credentials you It has been said that ""one person's story is someone else's survival guide."" In craftly resurrecting personal memories for the sake of journeying through and towards her own healing, Laura Holloway has released the essence of what it truly means to walk your walk and talk your talk. Just like in breathwork and meditation, it is the space between the exhale and the inhale that you surrender to the silence within. Where you are invited into universality, where all the answers reside. As expressed within, ""The pauses are stopping points for the moment, before continuing toward eternity."" One question to ask yourself is, ""what is truly holding me back from becoming the person I KNOW I Am?"" Laura's Dancing with Demons: A Love Story will inspire you to fuel the fires of courage and bravery within (and with-out) you, so that you, too, may capitulate your inhibitions on a trajectory towards your own true self-authenticity. -Danny Scott Energy wellness facilitator, Intuitive communication specialist, messenger.

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Laura Holloway has been called Goat Girl, Animal Queen, and a Warrior Poet; semi-feral, fierce, and unabashedly ""sensitive."" She lives amidst the forest outside a small mountain town in Colorado, where she spends most of her time cleaning up after companion animals, frolicking through the woods, scribbling in her journals, and puttering around the farmstead sanctuary, daydreaming about butterflies and other magical beasts. She loves long walks in the woods with her pack of dogs, goats, llama, and the occasional enthusiastic cat, and never worries about looking like a total dork to her super-cool teenaged son. Laura aspires to master (and write about) the Art of Truly Loving Herself (really and for real), as well as loving this whole weird, wonderful world of whack-a-doodle Humanity. She also intends to lay off the chocolate, and to not take in any more cats. ""Dancing with Demons: A Love Story"" is her first proper book.

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