Testimonials

Firewalkers is just incredible. A blueprint for seeing the other side of mental illness. I’ve worked in this field my whole life, and this is the first thing I’ve come across that is so full of promise.

Jessica Thayer
Insight Dynamics, LLC

With nearly 30 years in the mental health field, I have never read a book that was so honest and real.

Deborah Anderson
Founder and Director, Operation Helping Hands

Firewalkers is transforming my life and inspiring my advocacy in ways I never considered. I never knew a book could make me feel this way.

Marcus Cowgill
Director, Blacksburg Computer Empowerment

Firewalkers is an amazing touchstone, an authentic representation of mental illness that encourages people to come together and release fear, judgment and shame. Firewalkers has the power to heal and bring people together.

Betsy Brown
Co-Founder
Virginia Peer Support Specialist Coalition

Honest and courageous. Firewalkers challenges traditional concepts of mental illness and Western medicine. While not anti-medication, it presents a view of mental illness as “something off-balance that needs to be gently righted, not medicated out of existence.” The individuals who tell their stories. . . Read the full review

Mood Letter Newsletter

Powerful, courageous, and inspirational. Firewalkers should be read by all people struggling to recover in a very imperfect mental health system and society. And it should be read by the professionals who assist them.

LeRoy Spaniol
Former Editor, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

I can't tell you how much it means to me personally to have this book exist. It is so important to have people start thinking more expansively about all mental health issues.

Radha Metro

 
Truly a groundbreaking and important message to the world. Firewalkers storytelling and wordsmithing is forward thinking - bold, elegant and intricate. Ahead of the curve in the revelation of showing us 'what could be' and our role in creating that vision of hope. Uplifting stories of how we can persevere through adversity and rise to our mission in life.

Michael Newcomb
Council Chair, Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Advisory Council, VOPA

Firewalkers is revolutionary in its expression of hope and victory for people confronting mental challenges.This book is transforming my life by showing me the immense resiliency of the human spirit. A major contribution to the lives of people with mental illness. The authors are speaking from the heart after witnessing the fire. Their words are treasures.

I have been profoundly affected by this landmark text. Never before have I heard such a clear expression of hope and possiblity, together with important ideas about coping that every person can put to use in facing a mental health challenge. As an alternative to a clinical perspective, Firewalkers talks to us on a deeply profound level.

Marcus Cowgill
Director
Blacksburg Computer Empowerment

A must-read for friends who have been "labeled" with emotional issues and those who love them. We need not "cure" our illness, but rather accept it as part of us, understand it, push through it and have fulfilled lives the same way a physical impediment would not stop us.

Bern Cohen, New York City

Firewalkers gives power to everyday people's stories, so that we can all see that what happens to us can become something positive, something bigger than ourselves, and something we can share with pride and dignity.

Becky Sterling
Consumer Recovery Liason, MPNN

Firewalkers gave me a completely new and unexpected view of how it's possible to deal with mental health challenges. I will pass the book around and spread the word.

John S

I recommend this book to everyone. This book is written by healers. It is beautiful!!

Jason k Mintel