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Help and Hope for Parenting
Children with Mental Illness

regon author Berryman Childreth earned
Oa silver honor in the psychology category,
a notable achievement among Nautilus Book
Awards’ record number of entries this year.
Her story is about her family’s personal experience raising a mentally ill
daughter and the shame, stigma, and challenges they faced. It provides a
realistic and practical guide to parenting a child with mental illness. Real
life stories combine with an overview of common diagnoses, advice on
navigating health insurance or the school system, and help with setting
expectations at home to give practical steps to bring order to the chaos
and hope to the future.

“When a child faces a physical health crisis, friends and family rally around
to provide support,” says Childreth. “But when a child is diagnosed with
a mental illness, their families often find themselves struggling alone with THE SMALLEST HORSE
stigma and shame, hiding behind a mask of normalcy while feeling com-
pletely helpless and out of control at home.” BY LORIE LIST

Berryman Childreth is the founder of The Lemonade Project, a movement he desire for a horse or a pony is one of childhood’s most endur-
dedicated to calling out stigma surrounding mental illness and empower- Ting fantasies. Like many young girls, author Lorie List dreamed of
ing families and individuals to share their stories, while improving access having a horse of her own while growing up in Texas. It wasn’t until
to equitable services and insurance coverage. She also coaches parents car- she was 29, however, that she bought her first horse. Twenty years
ing for mentally ill youth. later her love of horses has never been stronger. The Smallest Horse
came from a need to share the magic of horses with kids. All of the
www.TheLemonadeProject.com horses in the book are real, and once children read the book, they can
visit www.PonyDreams.com to learn more about their personalities,
likes and dislikes. “I wanted to get as close as possible to giving kids
the experience of getting to know a horse, and this is what I came up
with,” says List.
BEST OF CLASS The Smallest Horse tells the story of Trixie, a miniature horse who

his year’s Toast of the Coast worries she's not big enough to have an important job on the ranch.
TInvitational Wine Competition Children will delight in this heartwarming tale as they follow Trixie's
awarded Reustle-Prayer Rock misadventures and ultimate realization that she does indeed have a very
Vineyards three Best of Class des- special purpose on the ranch.
ignations: 2018 Malbec (a Double
Gold Medal), 2018 Pinot Gris (another Double Gold Medal), and The book may be found at Paddington Station and Treehouse Books in
2018 Riesling (a Gold Medal). Five of their other wines scored med- Ashland, or on Amazon.
als gold or higher. The Toast of the Coast invites top wines from West
Coast to participate and is known for its rigorous level of competition.
“I was quite excited to see how well our wines showed…against some
very stiff competition,” says owner/winemaker Stephen M. Ruestle.
www.ReustleVineyards.com

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