Catherine W. Scott

Catherine Woodward Scott, 80-yr-old great-grandma, is now retired from psychotherapy and addictions treatment. She lives in southern France near her daughter and family. Her own Adult Children of Alcoholics recovery led her to a Masters' degree in psychotherapy following her beloved brother's suicide. She writes from the inside out--the passion needed to find meaning in raw pain. She invites the reader inside to witness the daily portions of crazy in alcoholic families, and the radiant spiritual beauty and joy in shared recovery.

Her first non-fiction work, Divine Ordinariness, is a composite of spiritual awakenings and healings she either witnessed or guided. Those experiences led to the eight months of early morning mystical guidance that came through as "words written on my mind" by the source of infinite love, the God we know as the All. "They were so beautiful; it seemed unworthy to hide them under a bushel, but rather exuberant to share them with other seeking souls."

By now writing had become soulwork. Booze at Breakfast came next. Dedicated to her brother, "it was a therapeutic write. River of tears," she remembers. Then came A Listener Hears, a story about a therapist in gorgeous Boulder, Colorado who learns from tragedy that she doesn't really know much about listening though it's her profession. Her transformation is deep, hard, and lovely.

Now come shorter stories for middle-graders and their grandparents to snuggle into, a bit like Le Petit Prince, a favorite of mine. In The Little Traveler series, a Pleiadian comes to Capbreton to explore the land and sea with his one eye of wonder. He makes some charming animal friends and has some misadventures, and finds what he's looking for.