A raw and intimate memoir that offers a rare glimpse into the ups and downs and rich inner world of a powerfully expressive woman who spent close to forty years living with bouts of severe anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and OCD. With 2020 nearly behind us and millions reeling from the mental, emotional and spiritual effects of this unprecedented year, JOURNALING FAME: A Memoir of a Life Unhinged and on the Record is a necessary read.
One of many insights that celebrated entertainment journalist, Allison Kugel, recollects, which ultimately led to healing from crippling anxiety and going on to become one of the most prolific journalists in entertainment, interviewing more than three hundred headline makers from music, film, television, popular culture and world events.
JOURNALING FAME: A Memoir of Life Unhinged and on the Record by Allison Kugel traces the life and career of syndicated entertainment and pop culture journalist, Allison Kugel, as she reflects back to examine childhood and adolescent memories to uncover the mystery and madness behind a lifelong crippling anxiety and panic disorder as she navigates the exciting and intricate world of celebrity journalism.
She uses her hundreds of in-depth celebrity interviews as guideposts of insight as she pieces together elements that caused her to develop an anxiety and panic disorder and provides readers with her own journey of self-recognition, information, and spiritual wholeness that ultimately led to her healing and magnificent professional and personal triumphs.
Now an in demand syndicated celebrity profiler conducting in-depth, philosophical and spiritually driven interviews with some of today’s most notable figures from entertainment and popular culture, Allison uses her rich personal history to guide her line of questioning, asking celebrities signature questions like: “What did you come into this life to learn, and what did you come here to teach?”
Some of Allison’s most recent interview subjects include: Lenny Kravitz, Gwen Stefani, Tommy Lee, Regina King, Julian Lennon, Michael Phelps, Gayle King, Pam Grier, Rob Reiner, Reverend Al Sharpton, Shania Twain and Deepak Chopra to name just a few. Past interviews and experiences covered in the book include: The Kardashians, Dave Chappelle, Curtis “50
Cent” Jackson, Mike Tyson, Jenna Jameson and Anne Frank’s 1st cousin the late Buddy Elias among others.
In JOURNALING FAME we step inside the life and mind of journalist Allison Kugel as she examines her own journey with mental health, while simultaneously climbing her way to the top of the entertainment journalism food chain which has led to her storied present-day career.
“My highly sensitized being may have created anxiety, but it also blossomed into an ability to connect with others in a rarefied way, and to express myself as a successful journalist and writer..”
