From the Cutting Room Floor: A Cinematic Guide to Mental Well-being
What if the films and TV shows you love could help you heal, grow, and understand yourself better?
From the Cutting Room Floor is a powerful, honest, and deeply human guide to mental well-being—told through the universal language of cinema. Written by A. A. Edwards, this book blends raw lived experience with unforgettable moments from film and television to show how stories can help us survive life’s darkest scenes and rewrite our own scripts.
Born from years of trauma, addiction, mental-health struggles, and a life-changing cancer diagnosis, this isn’t a preachy self-help book or a clinical manual. It’s a conversation on the couch, popcorn between you, using movies as mirrors, mentors, and maps. Each chapter reframes a key aspect of mental well-being—identity, grief, shame, boundaries, forgiveness, resilience—through cinematic metaphors like The Director’s Cut, The Cast, The Plot Twist, and The Final Cut.
Along the way, readers are invited to actively engage through short “Director’s Challenges,” turning passive watching into meaningful reflection. Whether it’s finding humour in chaos, learning to sit with difficult emotions, or reclaiming control of your own story, this book shows that healing doesn’t come from erasing the past—but from understanding it.
Honest, compassionate, funny, and unedited, From the Cutting Room Floor is for anyone who’s ever felt stuck in the wrong genre of their own life—and is ready to take the director’s chair.
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