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PREFACE
Fear Less: Conquering the Demons of Mental Purgatory intimately chronicles my downward spiral into debilitating panic attacks and agoraphobia that began on my twenty-first birthday; a mental illness that sequestered me inside of my home for over a year. When Western medicine failed, my Apache/Yaqui mother took me to the Pala Indian reservation to see a Medicine Man, who cured me that night in a sweatlodge ceremony, which was nothing short of a modern day exorcism.
Fear Less: Conquering the Demons of Mental Purgatory goes on to detail a labyrinthine journey that explores my road to healing using various Western and Eastern modalities, conventional therapists, twelve-step programs, and spiritual healers, all of whom helped me learn how to deprogram the emotional conditioning that resulted from childhood trauma and a series of losses, and to instilled tools to reprogram new life conditions and achieve breakthroughs that re-awakened my true self. It is a gritty inner exploration into the darkness that lived inside me, and how I challenged and re-framed my mind to face those inner demons to cultivate new life conditions.
As a person who suffers from anxiety quite often, I found this book very resourceful and helpful, almost a manual to refer to for a number of different ailments as it delved into non-traditional healing. In addition, it offered unconventional wisdom! I felt connected to the author on so many levels. Every step of the way is a turn by turn adventure.
- Jim F.
What a surprise! A friend of mine gave me a copy of the book “Fear Less” by Shawna Baca and once I started reading it, I could not put it down. This book is an intense, very personal story of a young lady struggling with depression and ultimately with agoraphobia. She details her feelings and uses real life experiences to move you through each emotion in an effort to conquer her demons.
- Ron O.
Your book is so raw. It's so honest and palpable, I think I stop breathing when I read it cause when I stop I end up taking big gulps of air.
- David A.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear... is fear of the unknown.
- H.P. Lovecraft
FEAR LESS Society was inspired by my book, FEAR LESS, which chronicles my decent into mental illness at the age of twenty-one that left me sequestered inside my home for over a year until my Indigenous mother took me to see a Medicine Man at the Pala Indian Reservation. I was cured that night inside a sweat lodge ceremony, after which, sparked my journey into wellness and learning how to deprogram mental conditioning due to trauma. The FEAR LESS society serves as an open forum of discussion into all things mental health related from both traditional and non-traditional modalities and healing.
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Shawna Baca is the author of the transformational memoir, "FEAR LESS: Conquering the Demons of Mental Purgatory," and an award winning writer, director, and producer. She was selected by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett from more than 20,000 filmmakers to be part of the 2007 FOX television show, On The Lot. She received a “Mujeres Destacadas” award by La Opinion newspaper and the City of Los Angeles and was honored at the Latina Symposium in Washington D.C. in recognition of her positive portrayal of Latinos and Hispanics in the media. Shawna has been creating New Media content for corporate clients ever since and has produced a feature documentary. She is currently developing the coming of age feature drama, "Space for Raven," which was a second rounder in the 2020 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, a 2020 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices - Semi-finalist, and a 2020 Script Pipeline Feature Screenplay - Quarter-finalist.
She was born in Los Angeles where she currently resides, and is Apache, Yaqui, Spanish and French.
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