Taking
Steps Toward Mental Illness 1 & 2
Pattern
Fitness- Your Body, Your Mind, Your Workout
1.
What really inspired you to write your book, to
force you from taking an idea or experience and conveying it into a book? What really
inspired me the most was that I was making progress with my mental health
struggles by incorporating exercise into my daily regimen.
2.
What is
it about and whom do you believe is your targeted reader?
Pattern
Fitness empowers people to take control of their mental health symptoms through
a structured exercise routine. This book
is for anyone with anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, stress issues, and even
bipolar struggles. Since I have
struggled with all of these and found ways to approach exercise in a new way
that has helped, I believe anyone who struggles to get started and maintain and
exercise routine is my target audience!
3. What do you hope will be the everlasting
thoughts for readers who finish your book? What should remain with them long
after putting it down?
I
hope that readers will remember that they are not alone in their struggles and
that they can make progress and have more good days in their daily lives. I think that what will remain with them is
the fact that it’s not the end result they’re looking for, but instead that they
are finally moving their body on a regular basis, resulting in a sense of
accomplishment.
4. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for
fellow writers?
I
love this question as I have been asked many times. I think with relation to mental health
struggles is that people who wish to publish their personal stories about
anxiety, depress, bipolar, etc. need to keep one thing in mind. If they have never shared their problems with
others and decide to publish it to the world, they may go through an emotional
roller coaster as I did. I really never
shared all of my issues with anyone before I decided to publish it. And after I put it out there, I almost
immediately regretted as my personal experiences where now public and I would
have to talk about it out loud with others.
It was very difficult and I didn’t realize what I was actually doing
when I published my first book.
5. What trends in the book world do you see and
where do you think the book publishing industry is heading?
The
trend I think I see the most is the advertisements from publishers, even on TV
commercials offering to help writers put their books together. I think things will keep getting easier to
put words in print.
6. What great challenges did you have in writing
your book?
My
greatest challenge was that this book wasn’t just about personal stories and
experiences. Instead, creating programs
and expressing ideas based upon my own workouts. It was much harder to write and describe what
I had been doing and to do it in such a way as to convey to others how to do it
too.
7. If people can only buy one book this month,
why should it be yours?
People
need to know that there are real solutions to help with their mental health
struggles written by someone who actually gets it! I think that has been the feedback I have
received the most is from others thanking me for sharing my personal
stories.
Scott Shoemaker is an accomplished Business Development
professional with a desire to help others make informed choices. A long time sufferer of anxiety and
depression, Scott decided to use his “Discovery Skills” on himself and started
writing about his thoughts and experiences suffering from a lifetime of mental
health issues. After careful
consideration, Scott decided that writing down his problems was just the
beginning and decided to put them into book form with a desire to share his
story. For more info, please see: www.sharingmentalillness.org and
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