Finding Hope

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This book is derived from the real and lived experience of people who deal with mental illnesses of all types and severity on a daily basis. People who have learned to navigate a system that does not easily or readily provide the treatment and care needed – and which all too often harms those it is to help. It is based on what we know is important and is needed. Most importantly Finding Hope shares what we know – there is hope – no matter how hard or painful this experience, no matter how long it takes to be realized. There is hope here.

The Way the Rain Works, by Ralph Earle

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This is a deeply felt book about a family in crisis that lives inside you and lends itself to multiple readings. Sad, but not without its small, yet sustaining, redemptions: “In the evening, overflowing with secret love,/ I dangle my feet above the receding/ spillway and listen: ripples. The moon’s/ reflection rides them like a blessing.

Letters for my Little Sister, by Cecilia B.W. Gunther

Letters for my Little Sister began as a conversation peppered with questions — between women who found they had little to no idea what to expect from this phase in their lives.

Compiled from letters, essays and poems from almost seventy women around the world, Letters is written for every woman to read, to share — with each other and with the men and women who love them.