Today I am pleased to have Apryl E. Pooley with us for a gif interview! In case you are new to the site, a gif interview is where the author is only allowed to answer my questions using gifs or pictures. I hope you enjoy it!
Hello Apryl and welcome to the blog!
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What inspired you to get your PhD in neuroscience?
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How do you manage all your responsibilities; writing, family, friends?
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You found out your book had been picked up by a publisher. How did that moment in your life look?
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What’s your favorite part of being a writer?
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What is the worst part of being a writer?
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How do you feel when you are editing?
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You spend all night editing away on your current work in progress when finally you hit your word count and decide to head to bed. Suddenly a new shiny idea hits you. What do you do?
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Do you have any advice?
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Thank you for visiting the blog, Apryl. It was such a pleasure to have you!
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About Apryl E. Pooley:
Apryl E. Pooley was raised in Charleston, Illinois–a small, rural college town where she stayed to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the biological sciences department at Eastern Illinois University. She then entered the Michigan State University Neuroscience Ph.D. Program to research the effects of traumatic stress on the brain. As a neuroscientist, Apryl is in a unique position of researching the very disorder with which she lives—post-traumatic stress disorder. Her current research focuses on how trauma affects the brains of men and women differently. In conjunction with her scientific knowledge of the effects of trauma, she relentlessly shares her own story of rape, abuse, and addiction to ensure that all victims of trauma receive the treatment and respect they deserve and to provide hope to anyone hiding in a closet. Apryl lives in Michigan with her wife and two dogs, Lady and Bean.
About Fortitude:
Anchored by ten years of unedited blog and journal entries, Fortitude illustrates a real-time account of an outwardly successful college student living with secrets of rape, childhood molestation, a closeted lesbian identity, PTSD, alcoholism, addiction, eating disorders, and suicide attempts. In her first year as a neuroscience doctoral student, Apryl learned of PTSD as more than a military issue, which led to her own PTSD diagnosis after nearly a decade of living with the disorder. She devoted the remainder of her life’s research to understanding the effects of trauma on the brain but learned that healing from trauma was so much more than a scientific experiment. Fortitude describes Apryl’s unrelenting attempts to hide her shame by escaping her mind and body, only to find that what she needed was to openly share her story and travel deep within herself to find the healing answers that were there all along.
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