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Hi there,

As someone who suffers from PTSD, I’m hoping this list of potential triggers can be helpful for you in protecting your mental health and truly enjoying these stories!

This list is by no means conclusive, but I think it covers the main things someone may be worried about or struggling with. If you have more questions about specific triggers or think I may have missed something, please email hello (at) kelsiestelting (dot) com.

Lots of love,
Kelsie Stelting

The Curvy Girl Club 

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Quarterbacks

Described on page:

• Controlling/judgmental mother obsessed with MC losing weight
• PCOS/menstruation/hormones

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Billionaires

Described on page:

• Controlling ex attempts to force MC into her car, hero steps in and stops it from happening

Mentions but not described on page:

• Loss of a sibling

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Cowboys

Described on page:

• Bullying of MC for weight/hair color
• Asthma attack/hospital stay

Mentions but not described on page:

• Loss of a parent

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Bad Boys

Mentions but not described on page:

• Loss of a parent
• First sexual encounter (fade to black)

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Best Friends

Described on page:

• Bullying for MC’s psoriasis
• Domestic violence, son standing up for mother and fighting with father
• Parent’s alcoholism

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Bullies

Described on page:

• Bullying
• Controlling parents

Curvy Girls Can’t Dance

Described on page:

• Bullying

Mentions but not described on page:

• Death of a parent
• Adoption and how it affects non-adopted child/sibling

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Soldiers

Described on page:

• Bullying for MC’s vitiligo

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Princes

Described on page:

• Child abandonment leading to adoption
• Meeting birth parents

Mentions but not described on page:

• Birth mother being sexually assaulted

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Rock Stars

Mentions but not described on page:

• Postpartem depression
• MMC's mom completed suicide, drug abuse
• Loss of a parent
• Emotional abuse by MC’s first boyfriend
• Sex positivity - the FMC believes women shouldn't be slut shamed for enjoying sex

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Curvy Girls

Described on page:

• Coming out to parents
• Unaccepting grandparents

Mentioned but not described on page:

• Hateful messages toward the queer community painted on window (nothing is explicitly stated or spelled out)
• History of being judged/called names for being queer
• Suicide rates of queer teens

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Surfers

Described on page:

• Dad was injured in military service and has a traumatic brain injury and PTSD that affects the mom and daughter’s everyday lives.
• Dad has violent PTSD episodes. In one scene, he throws a cup on the ground. In another scene, he shakes the female main character and wrestles with the male main character, breaking his arm. The mom has to sedate him to deescalate the scene.

Mentioned but not described on page:

• Female main character’s parents conceived her on their senior prom night.
• Main characters are taking a CNA class together, and there is talk of caring for the elderly and disabled, but it is all done respectfully.

The Texas High Series

Chasing Skye

Describes on page:

• Parental emotional abuse
• Bullying
• Athletic injury

Becoming Skye

Describes on page:

• Parental emotional/verbal abuse
• Bullying
• Athletic injury recovery

Loving Skye

Mentions but not described on page:

• Contraception (MC finds condoms in her boyfriend’s glove compartment)

Described on page:

• Emotional abuse by parent
• Parent’s alcoholism

New at Texas High

Abi and the Boy Next Door

Mentions but not described on page:

• Parental physical and emotional abuse (she has a bruise at the beginning of the story)
• Parents' drug use (her parents were put in jail for abusing and selling prescription pain pills

Described on page:

• Underage alcohol consumption (with natural consequences)
• Main character weight loss journey (sometimes teeters on the edge of unhealthy habits)
• Visits her parent in jail and is verbally abused
• Teens go streaking

Abi and the Boy Who Lied

Described on page:

• Main character is kidnapped and has to run away from kidnapper who has a gun
• Unhealthy eating habits/anorexia eating disorder

Abi and the Boy She Loves

Mentions but not described on page:

• First sexual encounter
• Parental emotional/physical abuse

Described on page:

• Ski injury

The Pen Pal Romance Series

Dear Adam

Mentions, but not described on page:

• Sexual encounter in backstory
• Absentee father
• Parent having an affair (catches parent kissing someone else)

Describes on page:

• Minor drinks a beer at the bar with his bandmates

Fabio vs. the Friend Zone

Mentions, but not described on page:

• Loss of a parent during childbirth

Sincerely Cinderella

Described on page:

• Car accident
• Waking up in the hospital finding out she lost her father
• Navigating the world as a blind person
• Bullying for being blind