Another Kind of Free: A Memoir of Suicide Prevention through Mindfulness

Nickie should have been a carefree, confident young woman on the brink of success. Instead, September 11, 2001 and not so spectacular events in her personal life plunged her deeper into a depression that she tried to escape through suicide.

Another Kind of Free: A Memoir of Suicide Prevention through Mindfulness is a touching, open view into the thought processes and mindset of a clinically depressed woman. Sometimes humorous, always raw and honest, Nickie illustrates her reality as she navigates a mental health ward filled with drug addicts, and an outside life of drunken self-medication and failed sessions with therapists.


It's no spoiler that the author survived her depression. This memoir details how she did it through mindfulness techniques. With simple strategies that can be done by anyone with the will to try, Nickie staved off mind-controlling, paralyzing depression using diligent yoga and concentration.


Thought provoking, entertaining, and informative, Another Kind of Free captures the struggle of mental illness while providing hope and strategies for overcoming it.