mental illness

Interview with Author – Lynn Rae

Interview with Author – Lynn Rae

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Lynn Rae was diagnosed with depression at the age of thirty and bipolar disorder at thirty-five. She has been living with these illnesses since 1991 and has had numerous hospitalizations. Two psychiatrists told her at age thirty-nine that she would never work full time again. She has proven them wrong.
Lynn has written two books. The F Book: 7 F’s to Creating Your Fantastic Future teaches you how incorporating these seven F’s will lead to a happier, healthier, more joy-filled life. The other is called My Journey Back to Myself which depicts her struggles and recovery from bipolar disorder.
As an Inspirational Speaker Lynn shares with others her coping strategies for living with bipolar disorder and how she learned to be a productive member of society again and thrive despite how she was labelled. Her talk, “7 F’s to Creating Your Fantastic Future” outlines seven words all starting with the letter F that led to her recovery. She has spoken at hospitals, conferences, Rotary Clubs, libraries, colleges and universities.
Lynn Rae makes her home in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. In the summer she loves taking care of her vegetable garden and eating fresh from it every day.

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Interview with Author – Elizabeth Garden

Interview with Author – Elizabeth Garden

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Elizabeth Garden always knew there was something wrong with her family. When she discovered a close relative was a mass murderer, she wasn’t at all surprised.

From a seemingly “normal” upper middle-class family, Garden spent her Wonder Years in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. Emotionally neglected as a young girl, she was captivated by the magnificence of horses and the natural beauty of the Connecticut woods, where her vivid imagination and lack of spiritual training allowed her to commune with her spirits in her own way. Discouraged from attending any activities that required her parents’ involvement, she channeled her appreciation into artwork, and spent most of her time in her room. It turns out her artwork and rich imagination was the one thing that protected her from her easily enraged, narcissistic father and abusive older brother.

The middle daughter of five children, when Elizabeth was seventeen she made a beeline to attend art school in Boston, but her education came to a screeching halt when her parents decided they would no longer countenance her higher education. She found refuge with friends in the rock and roll world until that also came to an abrupt end when she married a man from India she hardly knew and didn’t love.

Without much in the way of support, except from one loving grandmother, the challenging trajectory of Elizabeth’s life was planted with landmines from the start and she struggled to find her professional and personal footing. In 1985 she experienced a life-changing event in the form of a hypnosis. She accessed her own inner guidance and reached enough clarity to steer herself in a better direction.

Garden eventually built a successful career in publication design and illustration, eventually becoming an award-winning art director for several high profile magazines.

When she was in her fourth decade and on her fourth marriage, she completed a correspondence course as a certified psychic medium from the Morris Pratt Institute. Immediately afterwards, a terrible family secret, a tragedy of epic proportions, was revealed. To Elizabeth, it was a story that that begged to be written and its relevance to her own unusual life began to emerge.

Elizabeth is a survivor in so many ways. She believes in human and spiritual potential and our ability to affect change by accessing our own inner guidance.

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