{"product_id":"your-therapist-says-its-magical-thinking-poems-9781770417366","title":"Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking: Poems","description":"Sadie McCarney's \u003ci\u003eYour Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and neurodivergence. In much of the book, history and science are treated the way they are often viewed by a brain in mental turmoil: places and events get switched around, facts get rewritten, and the fantastical reigns supreme. Through poems ranging from didactic (the horrible \"self-care\" advice received by the poet when she was struggling most) to historical fiction (patients in an asylum in 1800s England), to the quirky and unexpectedly fantastical (a rainbow carpool unicorn, a young child's timeline reversing each morning, and an everything bagel that includes competing theories of time), McCarney digs deep into the muck of her own lived experience. She resurfaces with, if not gold, at least an old time capsule and a few treasured hunks of bone. \u003ci\u003eYour Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the sometimes dubious (but always jubilant) inner workings of a mentally unwell brain at play -- especially within the context of a larger society that frequently seeks to tamp down this weird and rare form of magic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlottetown, PEI-based \u003cb\u003eSadie McCarney\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eLive Ones\u003c\/i\u003e and the found poetry performance text\/mental health memoir \u003ci\u003eHead War\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Literary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and various literary journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Misfit Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390505423122,"sku":"9781770417366","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1f9141e-3f14-497e-9aab-1b41311222a6.jpg?v=1728949749","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/your-therapist-says-its-magical-thinking-poems-9781770417366","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}