Rachel Morgan

Waltzing with Elephants is a deeply personal, unflinching memoir on Rachel Morgan’s tumultuous journey through mental illness. She transforms from...

Waltzing with Elephants: A memoir on finding home and surviving suicide, depression and PTSD

Waltzing with Elephants is a deeply personal, unflinching memoir on Rachel Morgan’s tumultuous journey through mental illness. She transforms from a sheltered child into a world traveler, finding solace in foreign lands yet battling personal demons and heartbreak. Her stories resonate with courage and resilience, from childhood antics in Russia...

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Vendor Village Christmas is finally here! Come join me as I'll be selling

Christmas is finally here! Come join me as I'll be selling at the Vendor Village in Evans, GA from December 4-13th at a beautiful Christmas market.

Book Feast Book Expo! Come join me in Aiken on November 14th at a

Come join me in Aiken on November 14th at a soon-to-be fantastic book fair! I will be selling my books there. 

Evans Market  Come join me as I will be selling at the Evans Market on the

Come join me as I will be selling at the Evans Market on the following Saturdays:

October 17th

October 24th

October 31st

November 21st

November 28th? (To be confirmed)

Blog: Taken from my SubStack newsletter, Mental Wellness

Chaos Doesn't Work Well for Mental Illness

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Liz Climo comic in my 365 Day Calendar of Liz Climo - her stuff is the best! Makes me smile every time.



My life is chaos right now, and I don’t think I’ve been handling it very well.

Let’s see…there’s

The Out-of-my-Control Chaos:

  • Terrible back pain to where I can hardly walk some days
  • Inability to open my own sliding doors or open jars or open pretty much anything these days
  • My increasing dropping of things, so I had to buy yet another case for my phone and had to...
Grounding Technique: Categories Coming Right Up  This week I’ve been

This week I’ve been so stressed.

Hurtful Thoughts…

Bittersweet Memories…

Frustrations…

Injustices…

Unmet expectations…

Overwhelming tasks…

Self-induced deadlines I can’t meet…

Oh, and a whole bunch of men will be in my house remodeling my kitchen (for weeks!) starting on Monday, which apparently has become WAY MORE anxiety-inducing than I expected. Probably because Africa has been at the forefront of my mind recently, with my criminal and civil cases becoming active again.

It’s been so bad that I’ve...

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Photo by César Abner Martínez Aguilar on Unsplash


It’s been a while since I’ve written here in this space. My summer was chock full of getting back procedures and gallbladder surgery, being hacked, writing a novel, trying to get my business, Well Worn Words, off the ground, tutoring a little Chinese girl in English, and keeping myself organized with the dozens of doctor appointments, emails with three different legal cases, and volunteering with the Authors’ Club of...

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Events

Come join me at the first annual Book Expo in Aiken, South Carolina on November 14th.  Be ready to buy lots of new and wonderful books.  I will also be selling there. Please drop by and say hello!

If you need more information, check out https://tbredcountry.org/event/book-feast-book-expo/ .

Come join me at the Evans (Farmer's) Market in Evans, Georgia, on November 21st! I will be selling my books there, and you will also have other vendors with food, crafts, produce, art, and other products to browse through! 

9 am - 1 pm

For more info, please visit: https://www.columbiacountyga.gov/267/Evans-Market 

 Come join me at the Evans (Farmer's) Market in Evans, Georgia, on November 28th! I will be selling my books there, and you will also have other vendors with food, crafts, produce, art, and other products to browse through! 

9 am - 1 pm

For more info, please visit: https://www.columbiacountyga.gov/267/Evans-Market 

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