Thriving After

About me

thriver, Award-Winning Writer, Artist & Photographer

Denise Bossarte is a novelist, poet, and award-winning photographer and artist. Denise is a certified meditation facilitator and contemplative arts teacher. She is an information technology (IT) professional working for a large urban school district. Denise holds a B.A. in chemistry, an M.S. in computer science, and a Ph.D. in developmental neuroscience. And she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

Denise spent her adulthood healing herself from the traumatic impact the sexual abuse had on her life. She is not a mental health professional. She is a thriver who has traveled a healing journey and is able to share a personal, guided experience for readers to find and engage in their own journey to healing, to becoming thrivers.

Thriving After Sexual Abuse is an eloquent and empathetic self-development book laying out a blueprint for survivors to heal themselves. Denise Bossarte writes with fierce candor as she shares her own traumatic experience with childhood sexual abuse. Thriving provides tips and suggestions for readers to seek help, self-reflect, and pursue healing through a range of activities and practices and offers tangible strategies for readers to reclaim their lives and move forward to a life of Thriving.

As an unpublished manuscript Thriving After Sexual Abuse: Break Your Bondage to the Past and Live a Live You Love was a Quarterfinalist in the 2019 BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest, Self-help Category and a 5-Star Readers’ Favorite review recipient.

As a published book, Thriving has been recognized and awarded multiple times:

Gold Award winner by the NonFiction Book Awards,
Kirkus Reviews feature in the “30 Great Indie Books Worth Discovering” March 2022 edition
Finalist in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, Self-Help category
Director’s Choice Award for Abuse Awareness Book of the Year in the 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Awards
Gold Award Winner Self-Help Human Relations Indie Book in the 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Awards
Finalist in Self-help (non-fiction) in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Finalist in the Hope Pyx Global International Book Awards, Self-help
Gold Award winner Literary Titan Book Awards
Finalist in the IAN 2021 Book of the Year Award
Finalist in the Self-Help: General category of the 2021 Best Book Awards
Finalist in the 2021 The Wishing Shelf Book Award Adult Non-Fiction
Finalist in the 2021 Kindle Book Awards “The Best of Indie”
B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree
Honorable Mention Royal Dragonfly Book Awards Self-Help/Inspirational category
Publisher Weekly “Indie Spotlight Jan 2022 – Self-Help and Inspirational” books
Kirkus Reviews “Indie Feature” August 1, 2021