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Bette J. Freedson

Bette J. Freedson

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Bette J. Freedson, L.I.C.S.W., L.C.S.W., C.G.P.  is a clinical social worker and certified group psychotherapist based in Southern Maine. She earned her master's degree in social work from the Boston University School of Social Work and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts.

Throughout her career as a clinician in private practice, as well as a speaker and writer, Bette Freedson has worked with hundreds of children, parents, adults, couples, and groups to help them relieve the stress that interferes with success in life. The knowledge she has collected from years of experiences working with single mothers, as well as from her own personal experience as a single mother, has provided the material for Soul Mothers' Wisdom: Seven Insights for the Single Mother.

A sought-after speaker and media expert, Freedson has been featured on radio shows, websites and magazines including "Spiritually Speaking," "Start Feeling Better Now," Education.com, Help Starts Here (the consumer website for the National Association of Social Workers), Woman's Day, Working Mother Magazine and Calgary's Child Magazine. 

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>

Story Behind The Book

Clinical social worker Bette J. Freedson shares insights she has identified through years of workshops, counseling sessions, and her own self-examination as a single mother.

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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;This is a fine book full of support for single parents who have to face the job<br /> of raising children alone, and having to share them with another caregiver<br /> when they return to work.</span> <span style="font-size:10pt;">I would advise all single mothers to read it.&quot;<br /><br /><strong>T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.</strong><br /> Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at <strong>Harvard Medical School</strong><br /> developer of the <strong>Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;">author of more than 30 books on child development<br /> former host of Emmy-award-winning TV show <strong><em>What Every Baby Knows<br /><br /> ~</em></strong></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;The responsibilities of single mothers can be daunting. <strong><em>Soul Mothers' Wisdom</em></strong> provides inspiring counsel to help them flourish. The stories and insights provide unique resources that will foster a stronger sense of self and more fluid access to inner resources. Practical and eminently readable, <strong><em>Soul Mothers' Wisdom</em></strong> offers a path for single mothers—and fathers—to reclaim their identities, and improve the lives of those who depend on them.&quot;</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D.</strong><br /> director, <strong>The Milton Erickson Foundation</strong></span></p> <p align="center">~</p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;Bette Freedson has written a winner in <strong><em>Soul Mothers' Wisdom</em></strong>.</span> <span style="font-size:10pt;">Her numerous insights and suggestions—gleaned from her own experience as a single mother as well as her years of practicing psychotherapy—are infused with compassion and wisdom. Her goal is to have women not just survive single parenting but instead thrive, and she succeeds wonderfully. <strong><em>Soul Mothers' Wisdom</em></strong> is thus the go-to guidebook for anyone navigating these often-confusing and painful waters.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D.</strong><br /> author, <em><strong>Almost Addicted</strong></em><br /> faculty member in psychiatry, <strong>Harvard Medical School</strong> </span></p> <p align="center">~</p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;For twenty-six years I've had a solo general practice of Osteopathic medicine. This has taught me and continues to teach me that the body's inherent mechanism has the wisdom and potency to heal. In <strong><em>Soul Mothers' Wisdom</em></strong>, Bette Freedson has given a flexible road map to access this soul's sparkle, the spirit of one's truth, the psychic intuitive wisdom and the realization of inner peace. This is a gift that will last forever and is useful to everyone. It transcends so-called self-help books, for it allows one to see the truth that life's friction gives us direction and is the centripetal force that keeps us on the spiral path.&quot;</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Tim Kingsbury, D.O.<br /> Kittery, ME</strong></span></p> <p align="center">~</p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;Bette Freedson has written an enormously useful book on single parenting. As an expert clinician, she has illustrated her suggestions about single parenting with real life clinical cases. But most important, she describes her own experiences from shock and despair through adaptation after successful adaptation. This book gives advice and hope to so many overwhelmed parents traveling the same path. A must read!&quot;</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Jack Weltner, M.D.</strong><br /> child &amp; family therapist<br /> international lecturer on family therapy<br />  author, &quot;A Structural Approach to the Single Parent Family&quot;</span></p> <p align="center">~</p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;As an educator, I particularly found the parenting advice on dealing with stress, building self esteem, and handling misbehavior to be on target and helpful. Single mothers will find this inspirational book to be a valuable resource.&quot;</span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Rich Weinfeld</strong><br /> director, <strong>Weinfeld Education Group LLC</strong><br /> author, <strong><em>Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties</em></strong>,<br /><em><strong>Helping Boys Succeed in School</strong></em>,<br /><strong><em>School Success for Kids with High Functioning Autism,</em></strong><br /> &amp; <strong><em>Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book</em></strong></span></p>