{"id":1728,"date":"2019-01-07T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:36:28","slug":"1728","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/1728\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens author pens book on effects of depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local woman has published her first novel, which deals with postpartum depression, the challenges it brings and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Saulnier say while the book is a work of fiction, she drew on her own experiences battling depression 15 years ago to write a story that she hopes will both be interesting and helpful to others.<\/p>\n<p>Lost in Grey follows the story of Tess, through her ups and downs, and the events both good and bad that happen as she tries to navigate through her depression.<\/p>\n<p>Saulnier says she wanted to write the book because while the stigma surrounding mental health is lessening, it\u2019s still something not enough people talk about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t know if they can talk to somebody, they don&#8217;t know who to go to,&#8221; she says. &#8220;They end up hurting themselves because they think there is something wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lost in Grey is Saulnier\u2019s first book, although she says writing is something she\u2019s done as long as she has been able to hold a pencil. For the book she went through Amazon\u2019s self publishing process, which makes the book available to a wider audience. In addition to amazon, a hard copy of the book will soon be available at the Thomas H. Raddall Library in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Saulnier&#8217;s book can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Lost-Grey-Sandra-Saulnier\/dp\/1726360369\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1546885874&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=sandra+saulnier\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1729\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_2019-01-07-Sandra-Saulnier-Author-saulnier_sandra-Twitter-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_2019-01-07-Sandra-Saulnier-Author-saulnier_sandra-Twitter-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_2019-01-07-Sandra-Saulnier-Author-saulnier_sandra-Twitter.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Saulnier with her new book, Lost in Grey.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local woman has published her first novel, which deals with postpartum depression, the challenges it brings and recovery. Sandra Saulnier say while the book is a work of fiction, she drew on her own experiences battling depression 15 years ago to write a story that she hopes will both be interesting and helpful to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}