Cherokee Zimmer

Bitch On Fire Cherokee Zimmer

Poetis Cherokee Zimmer shares her story of survival as a young woman coping with childhood physical and emotional trauma including denial, repression, depression, secrecy, and chronic shock that can lead to such lingering problems as mood and eating disorders, alcohol abuse, dissociation, and self-injury. Her new book "Bitch On Fire" is a metaphor that theoretically guides you into her journey towards recovery with an understanding of the impact of her trauma to finding self worth again. This book is devoted to the journey of all women, victims of childhood sexual abuse as well as during their healing process. As such, it offers an interesting perspective that includes not only a personal narrative set in poetry like in her poem "Violated" it details her as that women who had been traumatized, but also offers a detailed therapeutic process related to each stage of her journey and examples of her struggles along the way.