Author’s Note: “You were like this once. What did you do to get better?” A day after leaving a mental institution, my sister, devastated by flashbacks from childhood sexual abuse, posed this question to me. Within a few weeks, she took her own life. I wrote a book to...
Friends of Lake Drive Books, As I was editing Frank Rogers’s Cradled in the Arms of Compassion, I couldn’t help but think that never before had I heard a personal experience quite like this. Early in this book, you are drawn into storytelling about...
Lake Drive Books gladly welcomes Caroline Beidler, MSW. With twenty years of leadership within social work and ministry, Beidler is a recovery advocate and author of Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery. Her forthcoming Fall...
The county in which I live has a vast trail system open to exploration. Some trails are minimally maintained, and others have been paved; some end at a beach on the shores of Lake Michigan, and others are entirely wooded. Imagine the grief journey as a part of that...
Friends of Lake Drive Books, Before publishing, my training and background was in psychology, psych and religion to be more specific. If there was one thing that impacted me the most about that education and study, it is the fact that we are so incredibly determined...
Being in the world of books, social media can be important, but I often hear how tired and downright repulsed people are by social media, some platforms more than others. No doubt, it really can be a horrible experience being on social media, and it can go to...
