The Life Raft: Rise Above the Tides and Rescue Your Dreams

The Life Raft is an inspirational, mystical guide for any of us caught in a tempest of challenges. Its union of powerful words and color photos will heal, inspire, and sustain the soul. Written by a bona-fide life crisis survivor, the author experienced many of life's biggest lumps-including a violent childhood, a parent's early death, teen pregnancy, divorce, single parenthood, debilitating chronic pain, financial failure, and more. One page at a time, The Life Raft shows us how to be courageous in the face of all uncertainty (and one's own history). It embraces the bold notion that despite setbacks, hardships, and tragedy-life is worth fighting for! This book is the literal lifeline-back to one's truest self.

CJ Schepers is a book ghostwriter, developmental editor, andformer award-winning religion reporter living in Los Angeles. During her Midwestnewsroom days, she broke the worldwide story about the deepening friendship betweena Jewish cantor and a Klansman, inspiring the book Not by the Sword (KathrynWatterson, Simon & Schuster, 1995). As a "bona-fide life crisis survivor,"CJ's purpose is to give us hope. Hope in our darkest moments, and loneliest,most terrifying junctures. The Life Raft is her first solo book. She has two groovy,grown daughters, three spunky g-kids, and lives with her four crazy, adorable cats. CJ's current passion is Blackcat-Whitecat: TheInterdimensional Tails, a sci-fi fantasy series that she's co-writing with her first kittyEmma (from "the other side").