Interviewing survivors of Hurrican Helene for her book, Hurricane Helene: Resiliency After the Storm, turned out to be a painful process for Rebecca Wells Phillips (who was affected by the storm as well). Far from being reluctant to revisit their trauma, the people she talked to were eager to tell their stories, to be seen and heard. The result is a deeply felt documentation that one reviewer called, “a poignant account of a catastrophic flood and how a community was able to band together to both survive and heal in the aftermath.”
In addition to the book about Hurricane Helene, Rebecca has written two memoirs (Hating Self and Loving Self), a novel (Butterfly Blossoms) and a number of short stories.
Rebecca brings topics like authenticity, depression, suicidal ideation, abuse, racism, discrimination, destruction, and loss to her writing. She writes, she says, “to uplift and to turn a bad situation into a positive outcome.”
Buy Hurricane Helene: Resilience After the Storm at: https://a.co/d/0hsAkL3k
Connect with Rebecca:
· Facebook: https://facebook.com/beckywellsphillips
· Instagram: www.instagram.com/gaphill184240/
· X (Twitter): https://x.com/RebeccaPhi37526
· TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rebecca.phillips53
· YouTube: www.youtube.com/@rebeccaphillips231
· Substack: www.substack.com/@rebeccawellsphillips
· Threads: https://www.threads.com/@gaphill184240
· LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccawellsphillips/
· Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gaphill1842.bsky.social
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