Description: ""I spent twelve years feeling suicidal but I overcame the depression...I want to give people energy to go forward, regardless of what's thrown at them," says Laurier Tiernan. Fifty-Five Ways to Survive is a poignant collection of poetry and artwork chronicling their journey from profound despair to self-awareness and spiritual connection. Laurier Tiernan shares the experience of life as a hereditary psychic medium, seeing beyond, while grounded in human limitations. These graphic poems in both English and French explore resilience, the soul's endless evolution, and the quiet strength it takes to survive.
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Fifty-five Ways to Survive Cinquante-cinq voies de survie is a bilingual (English/French) collection of graphic poetry that traces a journey from despair toward contentment and spiritual growth. Across fifty-five numbered poems, Laurier Tiernan moves from insecurity toward clarity, strength, and transcendence. The work arises from lived experience. Growing up in poverty, facing rejection of identity, navigating serious illness, and surviving a mental health crisis in adolescence and early adulthood, Tiernan writes from his hard-won experience. -- CBC Books