• Age: 14 to 18
• Grade: 9 to 12

You will laugh. You will cry. You will be uplifted. Journalist Christalee Froese vividly brings to life her recovery from depression in her first book, Journey to Joy. This bold, brave memoir follows Froese on a two-year journey to restore her happiness, and her faith in life. After spending 21 days each month focusing on life-restoring topics like peace, creativity, food, fitness, faith, love, writing, travel, gratitude, and joy itself, Froese emerges with the hope she’d lost. Both heartbreaking and humorous, Journey to Joy offers insight into the stumbles and falls of recovery, and the persistence required to get back up time and again. Froese’s journey takes her to a Chinese orphanage where she finds courage, strength and true purpose. The raw storytelling will change how you view depression and anxiety … and permanently alter your own approach to joy. Most profoundly, Journey to Joy will restore your faith in miracles, and the underlying goodness of mankind. "Grab a pack of sticky notes and choose your own topics of joy. I invite you to embrace your suppressed desires as we wind our way through this book, and life, together. May the act of writing down things you love and have always wanted to do set you free, as it did for me." --Christalee Froese

Christalee Froese is an award-winning journalist who has honed her craft in roles as daily newspaper editor, columnist, travel writer and contributor to publications like the Kimberley Daily Bulletin, Regina LeaderPost, CAA Westworld Magazine, Westjet’s Airline magazine and the National Post. She lives with her family in a small-town setting that offers her endless tales for her weekly syndicated column, “Rural Roots.” Journey to Joy is Froese’s first book. For more information, please visit: www.bookjourneytojoy.com

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