Hey, Divorced Women Out There. It’s Time to Color Yourselves Anything but Blue.
Funny new coloring book and the critics are raving, Washington Post, “Funny coloring book to ease the sting of divorce”, CBS News, “This is no ordinary book”, National Divorce Columnist, “Hilarious.... imaginative illustrations...replace the tears of heartache with therapeutic laughter. A must for any woman...”
Funny new coloring book and the critics are raving, Washington Post, “Funny coloring book to ease the sting of divorce”, CBS News, “This is no ordinary book”, National Divorce Columnist, “Hilarious.... imaginative illustrations...replace the tears of heartache with therapeutic laughter. A must for any woman...”
Divorce is rarely a laughing matter, certainly not for millions of women who have gone through it. Anger, self-doubt, depression, loneliness—but seldom laughter—often accompany a judge’s decree.
Until now, with the introduction of the humorous Divorce: The Comic Coloring Book. The play-with-crayons (and even sharp scissors) coloring book combines comic relief and art therapy to help women ease emotional pain and turn a desire to bash a no-good Ex into a far healthier and amusing exercise.
With 60 pages of funny, thought-provoking illustrations—such as “Divorcectomy,” “Wedding Photo Dilemma,” “Divorce Rhymes,” and “Assembled, Processed, and Decreed”—to color and cut up, the coloring book gives readers a way to find laughter, maybe a little healing, and a brighter outlook on life.
This new, therapeutic book combines four book genres: comic, coloring, humor and inspiration was created by Debbie MacDougall, 54, whose own divorce case was ranked among 2013’s and 2015’s top cases in the Year in Review by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. The Supreme Court of Virginia is now schedule to hear her case in 2017. She drew on her own trials and research to produce the book, Divorce: The Comic Coloring Book.™
The coloring book is accompanied with the launch of MacDougall’s interactive website, www.comicdivorce.com, where the motto is “Sharing Is Caring,” and women have their own illustrations and tales of divorce selected once a month to be posted. The stories submitted so far are enough to make anyone laugh. The reasons behind Divorce: The Comic Coloring Book are many, MacDougall found from her own never-ending ordeal (it is a long legal journey to the Supreme Court of Virginia) and discovering she was far from alone in trying to come to grips with the fallout.
“Many women will tell you how lonely they felt while processing the trials and tribulations of divorce,” she said. “I wasn’t able to find anything out there to provide a much needed laugh and community during a very difficult life process.”
An estimated 1.2 million couples become divorced each year. Divorce is the most stressful event that can happen to you behind losing a spouse, according to the Holmes-Rahe stress scale used by doctors to assess vulnerability to illness.
And MacDougall discovered that art therapy—including even coloring books—has been found to be effective in helping treat cancer patients and people stricken with depression, dementia, and PTSD emotionally, by allowing them to express themselves when it is often difficult to put their feelings into words.
“That is when I decided an interactive coloring book could provide a community of positive support and laughter to let others know there is a gleam of hope,” she said.
The result: The sometimes wry, sometimes tearfully beautiful and funny Divorce: The Comic Coloring Book (Create Space, Copyright 2016, $12.95 U.S.). Available on Amazon.com.
“This coloring book is a way to change your outlook,” MacDougall said. “Readers get to color some beautiful images that I hope allows them to frame some of the issues of divorce in a new way.”
EDITORS: For more about the book and her website, interviews with MacDougall and why this may just be just the little book that millions of divorced women may need to brighten their lives, contact:
Cari Shane
Email: [email protected]
Divorce: The Comic Coloring Book. Available for $12.95 U.S. at Amazon.com www.comicdivorce.com