Lisa Boucher
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Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
Winner of 2018 International Book Awards: Women's Health, and finalist in the category of women's issues and addiction and recovery. 2018 Readers' Favorites Book Awards Bronze Medal in Non-Fiction—Self Help; 2017 USA Best Book Award Winner in Health: Women's Health Finalist in Health: Addiction & Recovery After short stints where Lisa trained polo horses, worked as a flight attendant, hairdresser, and bartender, she revamped her life and settled in as a registered nurse. For the past twenty-eight years she has worked with hundreds of women to overcome alcoholism, live better lives and become better parents. Raising the Bottom is her fifth book. She was prompted to write Raising the Bottom when she realized after twenty-plus years of working in hospitals, that doctors and traditional healthcare offer few solutions to women with addiction issues. She is the mother of twin sons and lives in Ohio with her husband. Visit Lisa and find out more about her by visiting her website: Raisingthebottom.com. You can also follow her on Twitter @LBoucherAuthor and Instagram! |
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Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
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Women's Health, Addiction and Recovery, Self-Help
Have you ever wondered if social drinking has unintended consequences to your health, family, relationships, or your profession? Have you ever thought that losing control of your drinking couldn’t happen to you or someone you love? All the women you know are too smart. Too rich. Too kind. Too together. Too much fun. Pick one. We live in a boozy culture, and the idea of women and wine has become entrenched. Is your book club really a “wine club”? Do you crave the release a drink can bring to cope with anxiety, parenthood, the pressures of being a mom, a wife/partner, a professional? In Raising the Bottom, mothers, daughters, health professionals, and young women share their stories of why they drank, how they stopped, and the joys and rewards of being present in their lives once they kicked alcohol to the curb. Read a Sample 
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Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs
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Contemporary Fiction, Inspirational
Flo’s deformed eye doesn't bother her a bit. Nope. Never mind the eye patch or her aversion to mirrors. But when she wins $40,000 in the lottery, she and Mo take off to get one of those “TV doctors” to fix her bad eye. It’s a long way from Indiana to California, so they, pack along some extra bags of cheese puffs for the ride. Funny thing about life, it doesn’t always follow a plan. Flo and Mo, primed for an adventure, get sidetracked at every turn. For one, there’s the young family with the broken-down car they stop to help only hours into the trip. Turns out there’s more to the young family than either of them could ever imagine. On to Hooker, Oklahoma, where they stumble into a wake for the town hero—High Henry, a Clydesdale horse, who shows the town it’s not the package but the heart inside that matters. At a farmer’s market in Pasadena, Jostlin’ Jack and Angel—a happy if homeless couple, suggest Flo “wear the world like a loose garment.” Angel’s words come back to haunt when the plastic surgeon wants to rework Flo’s whole face and make her into something she’s not. Realizing at last the only limitations in life are the ones she puts on herself, Flo opens her heart to the possibilities. Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs is the kind of story that asks you to look and find the magic in every single encounter. 
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Black Butterflies, White Fences
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Contemporary Fiction
Ivy Strauss, a half-Jewish, Iowa farm girl has had enough! Her son Noah, a shy, stuttering twelve-year-old desperately needs some fatherly attention, but it’s clear her husband Ethan is too self-absorbed to notice the boy’s plight. Ivy describes Ethan’s involvement with his family as, “One half of a cross-breeze that blows in and out of our lives at will.” Determined to do whatever it takes to help Noah feel comfortable in his own skin, Ivy tells Ethan she’s taking Noah to try out for an inner-city basketball team, a far cry from the ritzy, suburban life to which he’s accustomed. Ethan’s stereotypical response about blacks being superior athletes comes as no surprise. He even has the gall to say his pale, skinny son doesn’t stand a chance of making the team. Ivy ignores her husband’s lame protests. She is desperate to help her son feel good about himself and knows if he doesn’t find something soon, there’s going to be trouble down the line. In her journey to help Noah, Ivy encounters Demarc, a reticent man with a past whose hard-driving ways leave her shaken but intrigued. There’s no mistaking the glimmer of warmth lurking beneath his hard exterior. And you would have to be blind not to see how much he loves the kids who come to him needing much more than a game of basketball. As basketball season clips along, Ivy’s friendship with Demarc gradually blooms into something unexpected. Will she ignore the growing rift in her marriage and allow love to flower? Or, will the hurdles of a romance between people from vastly different worlds be too much to surmount? 
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