Evil At Our Table: Inside the Minds of the Monsters Who Live Among Us
Part forensics, part exploration of human nature, Evil at Our Table is the first in-depth account by a treatment provider and expert conducting evaluations under the Sexually Violent Predator Law. Here, I not only reveal the details of specific cases—and the outcomes—but also delve into the sometimes-overwhelming impact on my heart, mind, core beliefs, and personal life.
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The Sharp Blade of Grace
The Sharp Blade of Grace is a literary novel about exile—the moments when the lives we’ve built are suddenly upended—and the unexpected gifts that can become available to us through those losses.
Told through narrative, dialogue, letters, lists, original artwork, and short interludes “from the margins,” the novel follows Ayala through three dark nights: a psychological unraveling, the end of her marriage, and, years later, an estrangement from her adult child. Each strips away something she believes defines her and leaves her without the maps by which she has understood her life. Through grief, art-making, spiritual practice, love, and surrender, she must discover not only how to live with what cannot be repaired, but who she is becoming.
There are freedoms we choose and freedoms that are cut into us. This one feels like a long blade slicing her open. The price of this kind of freedom is high. Her heart will never be the same again. Nor will her thoughts about the future. But it is freedom.
Samantha Stein 