Psychjourney Audio Book Club

Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators

Length-40 minutes, 53 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Mr. Julian Sher, author of Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators  published by Carroll & Graf.

Mr. Julian Sher

Julian Sher is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist, TV producer and author of five books including Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs’ Crime Empire, which has been translated into four languages and sold in seven foreign countries. He wrote and directed the New York Times-CBC TV investigation called “Nuclear Jihad” which recently won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

His freelance writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN.com, the Toronto Globe and Mail and Walrus, Canada’s leading current affairs magazine. His Web page, JournalismNet,is ranked among the top ten journalism sites in the world by Google. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Visit his website.

Saving Millie; a daughter's story of surviving her mother's schizophrenia

Length-52 minutes, 40 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Tina Kotulski, author of  Saving Millie; a daughter's story of surviving her mother's schizophrenia published by Extraordinary Voices Press.

Ms. Tina Kotulski

Tina Kotulski, full time stay at home mom (S.A.H.M.) and author of Saving Millie; A Daughter's Story of Surviving Her Mother's Schizophrenia has played an active role in bringing awareness to the special needs of children, as well as families of the mentally ill. In 2006, she received an Award of Excellence in Consumer and Family Support from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, as well as a recipient of a Global Award from the National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children who have a Mentally Ill Parent in Australia. Her most recent award was from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) where Saving Millie won First Place in the category of Social Sciences.

Tina is founder of Extraordinary Voices, a national group of the "voices of those that have grown up in the shadow of mental illness", as well as President of of Extraordinary Voices Press.  Along with her husband, she is co-founder of Between The Bridges Healing Center, LLC, a comprehensive medical center where personalized, comprehensive care and optimal health and wellness meet.

Tina speaks on the special needs of children of persons with mental illness, as well as the needs of families of those that have mental illness at conferences, seminars, churches, health care centers, schools, community centers and prisions.

Tina, along with her husband Jeffrey Kotulski, D.O., and three children live in southern Minnesota. Visit her website.  Purchase the documentary about Millie, created by her daughter Susan Smiley, Out of The Shadow.

The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses

Length-1 hour, 55 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Joy Castro, author of The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses published by Arcade.

Joy Castro, Ph.D.

Joy Castro’s fiction and essays have appeared in Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, and North American Review, among other journals and anthologies. A professor of English at Wabash College, she lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana with her husband and son. Visit her website.

The Good Eater: The True Story of One Man's Struggle With Binge Eating Disorder

Length- 51 minutes, 56 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Ron Saxen the author of The Good Eater: The True Story of One Man’s Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder published by New Harbinger.

Ron Saxen

Ron Saxen has worked as a model, stand-up comedian, and comedy writer and had worked in sales for a number of high-profile companies. Ron Saxen is a recovered Binge Eater and is currently living successfully in Northern California. He continues to create new true life stories to tell and one's that he hopes will not only entertain, but provide help and inspiration to the millions of people with eating disorders and the tens of millions fighting the battle of obesity.

Ron's never felt happier, luckier, and more in love than right now. Just incase it is a dream, Ron vows to never pinch himself, and would appreciate it if you wouldn't either. Visit his website.

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

38 minutes, 39 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (University of Georgia Press).

Professor Sue Williams Silverman

Sue William Silverman's first memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (University of Georgia Press), won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award series in creative nonfiction. Love Sick: One Womans Journey Through Sexual Addiction (W. W. Norton) is her second memoir, and her books have been translated into German, Chinese, Japanese, and Norwegian.

She teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing program at Vermont College.

As a professional speaker, she has appeared on many nationally syndicated radio and TV programs including Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN; a John Stossel Special on ABC-TV; CNN-Headline News; the Montel Williams Show; the Rikki Lake Show; and both the U. S. and Canadian Discovery Channels. She is featured in the award-winning documentary Pursuit of Pleasure. Visit her website.