Living Dead While Being Alive

A story based on the true events in the life of a little girl born into a world of abuse, trauma, and chaos. A world where she finds herself not only fighting for her life from the hands of her abusers, who in all reality are the very people who were supposed to love, care for, and protect her. But the biggest battle of her life she must fight in her own mind. The little girl becomes a woman struggling to escape and overcome her world, where it is so easy to become a victim of your negative circumstances. Does she have the strength to escape the chains of the room where she grew up, where the sun never pierced through the black plastic garbage bags duct taped to her windows? Will pure hate consume her? Will the pain develop something within her that could only have been developed through pain? Can a rose really grow from the concrete streets of Brooklyn?

Author: Michelle L. Melendez
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Published: 07/02/2021
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d
ISBN: 9781638378129

About the Author
Melendez, Michelle L.: - Michelle L Melendez was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she was raised by her grandparents in a small underprivileged neighborhood and a world of toxicity, trauma, and chaos. But she refused to become a victim of her circumstances, disadvantages, and all the odds stacked against her. Despite fighting for her life as a child from the hands of abusers, and falling victim to alcoholism for six years, Michelle found herself fighting the most abstruse battle she had ever encountered. It was the war within, the internal battle of her own mind. She was going under, and knew if she did not take extreme action, she could lose herself forever. So, she packed a suitcase and hopped on a plane to Puerto Rico, where she isolated herself from the life she had once known, in order to reinvent herself. Disconnecting completely from the outside world for five years, she began to strip away everything and force herself to face all her fears, traumas, and issues, and observe and acknowledge all her feelings, beliefs, and actions. It was only then she realized that she had a choice, that only she had the power to change it all. Rising above all odds she was able to empty the toxic and limiting beliefs, feelings, and mental programming. After turning herself around, she become one of the top athletes in the sport of Wallball, representing team Puerto Rico and winning titles all over the world: The World Championships in Dublin Ireland in 2012, The world Games in Cali Columbia, the Fed Cup in Liguria Italy, and many more. She then went on to help build one of New York City's top nonprofit organizations for the sport of Wallball.