“The Art of Being Bullied – Reframing Trauma One Masterpiece at a Time” is three books in one. It’s a Memoir of a man bullied as a boy. It’s Psychological Realism focusing on a boy’s inner thoughts and feelings and the psych hacks his brain used to protect him while being bullied. And it’s a How-To, revealing the path that boy took as a man to heal himself from the trauma that has ached and echoed inside him for some 40 years.

From the third grade through high school graduation in Catholic schools, Raymond J Brune (bru’ – nee) was a constant target for bullies. He’s been called “Gay Ray” countless thousands of time. He’s a dodgeball survivor – the welts have healed. He was assaulted by a group of bullies who set him up while naked in the locker room shower. And he was stalked by a psychopath who would graduate to Ohio’s death row and be put to death by lethal injection. And those were just his peers. Nuns, teachers, coaches and even someone living in his household would all prove to be predators.

Ray went on to a very successful career in television. But many years after the bullying stopped, he experienced an attack of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder while driving on a Hollywood street. It was a warning that the bullying was still alive inside.

Ray discovered what he calls his “right brain rain” to attack his pain. Completely by accident, he came across a simple artificial intelligence platform that “reframed” his shame, his memories and his perceptions – and led to dramatic and rapid healing. This book is the result of a puddle of possibilities that splashed its way into book form – in hopes others will find the same healing and forgiveness Ray did.

View some “lost” artwork” from the book

View some “lost pages” from the book

Read Chat-GPT’s Interview with Ray About The Book