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<\/a>\u201cBut then life asks, \u2018Now what?\u2019\u201d says emotional resilience expert Paul G. Stoltz. \u201cOver the course of your years, either adversity consumes you, or you consume it.\u201d<\/p>\nJenny Lynn Anderson (`85) knows the fight first hand, and a new book chronicles her painful, but ultimately uplifting battle with the emotional scars resulting from sexual assault.<\/p>\n
In Room 939: 15 Minutes of Horror, 20 Years of Healing, Anderson recounts how the incident led to a variety of deep and long-standing emotional problems, and how she triumphed in the end \u2013 over not just her internal struggles, but over her attacker.<\/p>\n
In Atlanta to attend a public relations industry convention, she was attacked as she walked alone in a hotel hallway. \u201cI went to Atlanta as a perfectly healthy 28-year old woman early in my career, full of life and energy and passion for my job, and it just absolutely changed me,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter that, I came home and 20 years passed.\u201d During those two decades, she went on with life, but lived uneasily with the memory, suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome, anger, fear, guilt and the ever present question: \u201cWhy me?\u201d She finally decided to seek professional counseling and was able to place the events in perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cI decided that the man who did this to me had kept me in bondage for 20 years \u2013 that the only<\/p>\n