Lori L Gottula

Author Lori Gottula is living life out loud! She’s a retired business owner, a community leader and a playful grandma! But she held dark secrets for decades. Because of a chronic back condition, she became addicted to prescription painkillers. She also dealt with functional alcoholism, food addictions, codependency issues, and chronic victimhood. In 2012, at age fifty-one, and one hundred pounds overweight, she truly hit rock bottom. Her debut nonfiction book, Broken and Chained: My First Thirty Days in the Hell Called Detox is a stark, gut-wrenching account of just that. Her story was first featured in Guideposts magazine in 2015 after the longtime freelance writer won the 2014 writing contest. However, fear kept her from publishing her book. Fear no longer grips her. Her second book, Breaking the Chains, will detail her reconnection with God, and how He and she completely transformed her life. Read her passionate debut, then come and see what it is truly like to be free.