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Book Review: We Were Gonna Have a Baby, but We Had an Angel Instead by Pat Schwiebert
A pregnancy loss is a primal, deep loss. And often the parents dealign with this devastating loss have other, young children who were looking forward to having a little brother or little sister. There is help available, in this time of pain, for parents who need to find ways to answer their surviving children’s questions about death and help them cope with their emotions. Pregnancy and infant loss is a family event.


Book Review: Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Andy Behrman’s personal memoir, Electroboy, about living with Bipolar 1 Disorder is not an easy read.


Book Review: Walks on the Margins: A Story of Bipolar Illness by Kathy Brandt and Max Maddox
Originally posted October 22, 2013. I love this book. The co-authors seamlessly intertwine a full spectrum of education and complex...


Book Review: The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse by Jane Rowan
Originally published July 9, 2013. Many people in my psychotherapy practice struggle with coming to terms with childhood sexual abuse....


Book Review: In the Shadow of a Badge: A Memoir about Flight 93, a Field of Angels and My Spiritual
Originally posted April 8, 2013. Book Review: In the Shadow of a Badge: A Memoir about Flight 93, a Field of Angels and My Spiritual...


Book Review: One Mom’s Journey to Motherhood by Ivy Shih Leung
I met Ivy at Postpartum Support International’s Conference in 2011. She had such a nice feeling about her. Her accessibility, strength, humility and intelligence were quite strongly evident. Of course I had to kindle her book when it came out. Ivy, as she says, gives us a picture of the “ordinary postpartum depression” experience. But her personal story is about so much more than postpartum depression. I had a lot of emotions as I read her personal story and learned about
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