Books

A Divided Life

a memoir of hiding from myself, survival, and becoming whole

What happens when everything around you teaches you that an essential part of who you are must remain hidden?

In the tradition of Boy Erased, A Divided Life explores the destructive logic of conversion therapy—but from inside the mind of a young man who became both its subject and its enforcer. Growing up gay in a faith-shaped Midwestern town...

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A Divided Life Learning Guide

an interpretive companion for reflection and discussion

The story is only the beginning.
Go beyond the story to the meaning beneath it.

A Divided Life Learning Guide is a comprehensive companion to Todd Boler's memoir, A Divided Life. Designed for readers, book clubs, classrooms, discussion groups, lectures, and personal reflection, this volume explores the deeper themes, symbols, relationships,...

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my hidden self - a readers reflection journal

Everyone carries a private world.
Sometimes understanding begins simply by writing.

Some parts are joyful. Some are complicated. Some are deeply hidden. Some are still waiting to be understood.

Inspired by the themes of A Divided Life, my hidden self is a reader's reflection journal created as a private space for writing, memory, questions,...

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