If you could give someone a book to read knowing that the book could positively change the trajectory of their life, would you give them the book?
Biblio-therapeutic literature is compelling narrative that invites readers to identify with the characters and the events in the story. Most importantly readers will be impacted, inspired, and even changed by the therapeutic nature of the narrative.
Author Kate Lion explains that Solution-based Biblio-therapeutic literature is a story where the characters, plot, and conflict may empower the reading audience in positive change. The story itself contains embedded social-emotional information that can inspire readers to develop personal resources and resilience. Biblio-therapeutic literature allows the reading audience to acquire beneficial knowledge that may motivate the reader to reach out for needed support that they may not have understood was available. The information in the story may empower the reader to change their thinking and behavior in a manner that will positively impact their lives.
One of the first books that will be offered to our readers this year is the first novel in the series The Forgotten Ones--Out of Control by Kate Lion. Author Kate Lion describes this series as Solution-based biblio-therapeutic literature focused on addiction and opioid abuse prevention. Lion states that current addiction research reveals that one in four people live with or have an addicted loved one. She adds that ongoing research also identifies the tragic truth that every sixteen minutes, an American family loses a loved one to opioid overdose. (Her own brother died of an accidental overdose of prescription opioids leaving a bereaved wife, three children, a granddaughter and a grandson in utero. That experience was agonizing to all family members.)She wrote the novel series to honor her brother and to contribute to the movement of 'harm reduction' in the opioid crisis.
Through the novel Out of Control the reading audience learns about the risks of opioid medication, the progression of the disease of addiction, the confusion that family members experience when a loved-one is addicted, as well as resources (behavioral, psychological, and within the community) that are possible sources of support. Lion also introduces the reading audience to the practice and benefits of meditation through the narrative. She states that mindfulness meditation is a tool that everyone can have access to immediately. Lion points out that current research has shown that mindfulness meditation has such benefits as stress reduction, improved focus/concentration, emotional regulation, self-image improvement, anxiety reduction, pain reduction, and reduction in bias regarding age and race. When someone is suffering from anxiety, emotional instability, depression, self-esteem issues, pain, and biases, they are at risk for substance abuse and addiction. Lion states that mindfulness meditation could change that risk.
www.amazon.com/dp/1792850301
One of the first books that will be offered to our readers this year is the first novel in the series The Forgotten Ones--Out of Control by Kate Lion. Author Kate Lion describes this series as Solution-based biblio-therapeutic literature focused on addiction and opioid abuse prevention. Lion states that current addiction research reveals that one in four people live with or have an addicted loved one. She adds that ongoing research also identifies the tragic truth that every sixteen minutes, an American family loses a loved one to opioid overdose. (Her own brother died of an accidental overdose of prescription opioids leaving a bereaved wife, three children, a granddaughter and a grandson in utero. That experience was agonizing to all family members.)She wrote the novel series to honor her brother and to contribute to the movement of 'harm reduction' in the opioid crisis.
Through the novel Out of Control the reading audience learns about the risks of opioid medication, the progression of the disease of addiction, the confusion that family members experience when a loved-one is addicted, as well as resources (behavioral, psychological, and within the community) that are possible sources of support. Lion also introduces the reading audience to the practice and benefits of meditation through the narrative. She states that mindfulness meditation is a tool that everyone can have access to immediately. Lion points out that current research has shown that mindfulness meditation has such benefits as stress reduction, improved focus/concentration, emotional regulation, self-image improvement, anxiety reduction, pain reduction, and reduction in bias regarding age and race. When someone is suffering from anxiety, emotional instability, depression, self-esteem issues, pain, and biases, they are at risk for substance abuse and addiction. Lion states that mindfulness meditation could change that risk.
www.amazon.com/dp/1792850301
Other Books Recommended for Biblio-therapeutic reading and discussion related to addiction.
A memoir by Jeanette Walls entitled The Glass Castle. (An alcoholic father drags his family through years of chaos, instability, and crisis.)
YA fiction entitled Lush by Natasha Friend. (A teen struggles in life as her father struggles with his alcoholism.)
Beautiful Boy by David Scheff (A father's journey through chaos, confusion, and crisis when his beloved eldest son becomes addicted to Methamphetamine and other illicit substances!) Beautiful Boy was recently released as a major motion picture.