The Hidden Life: Awakened

When Betty Skinner was 42, her doctor told her, "You have a hole in your soul." In the 50 years that followed, Betty, now in her 90s, clinging only to her faith and a glimmer of hope, journeyed from desperate clinical depression to wholeness and profound wisdom well before anti-depressants and mindfulness were mainstream.
Emerging science now affirms that the organic path Betty traveled has the power to heal the broken body, mind, and spirit. With utter vulnerability and the beautiful view of hindsight, she reaches back with joy to offer her spiritual friendship and powerful encouragement to those of us still struggling on our own journey to the higher places.

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Kitty Crenshaw has had the gift of a deep spiritual friendship with Betty for more than fifty years. She is a mother, grandmother, and has been married to Ander for fifty years. For most of her life Kitty was immersed in the world of politics as Ander's partner when he served in the Florida Senate and then in the United States Congress. She now offers Betty's beautiful work on thehiddenlifeawakened.com blog. She and Cathy published The Hidden Life: Revelations from a Holy Journey in 2006 and enhanced it in their second offering, The Hidden Life Awakened. She and Ander live in Jacksonville, Florida.

Dr. Cathy Snapp is Campus Director of Behavioral Health for The Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership and its undergraduate and graduate medical education programs. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University. Prior to that she was a clinical psychologist and Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Residency Program. Her team was awarded the first family medicine residency program pilot collaboration with the Institute for Functional Medicine and successfully piloted their work throughout the U.S. She lives in Athens, Georgia.