The Shepherd's Pie

Description

The book begins with the author contemplating suicide via handgun and then proceeds to describe her journey through depression and seeming madness at a mental health and recovery facility in South Carolina. Along the way, she describes many characters who were influential in her life--both positively and negatively. The book concludes with a description of her life and practice as it now is, and with a discussion of how negative events can shape a person positively if these events are looked at with an eye toward self growth.

Bridgettte Williams holds a Masteer's degree in counseling and a PhD. in pastoral counseling. She is a licensed substance abuse counselor and holds a Substance Abuse Professional license with NAADAC and the Virginia Dept. of Transportation. She has been a counselor to thousands for more than 25 years and developed her current practice after her brother suffered his death via a heroin overdose. She knows first-hand the problems that mental health illness can present to both an individual and to an individual's family and network of friends.