Catherine Townsend-Lyon

Writer Catherine Townsend-Lyon is the best-selling author of her shocking debut memoir titled Addicted To Dimes, Confessions of a Liar and a Cheat. She shines the spotlight on dark family secrets that tore her family apart, her childhood trauma and sexual abuse, and parental abusive discipline that became some of the roots of her addictions. Her new release, a compilation book titled; Ten The Hard Way: True Stories of Addiction and Recovery, with Dr. Kevin T Coughlin Ph.D. and recovery coach, has several guest authors and business professionals who share their real experiences with many types of addictions and the path they chose to recover. Catherine has fast become well known in the addiction/recovery communities. In her memoir she shares he raw, haunting past of gambling addiction and alcohol abuse, living dually diagnosed with mental/emotional health challenges, and is a childhood trauma and abuse survivor. She helps many in recovery and is a loud advocate of these important issues to help shatter stigma around those who have been 'touched' by the same. Catherine is a former columnist for InRecovery magazine, has been a guest author and advocate on many Podcast and Radio shows and a part of several publications and articles like Time and Nautil.us most recently interviewed and written in "Addicted to Anticipation, What goes wrong in the brain chemistry of a gambling addict: http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/addicted-to-anticipation and another major media article release by, Columbia University titled; "Gambling With America's Health" http://the2x2project.org/gambling-public-health/ Catherine has co-written pieces in other books like, "The Little Book of Sobriety." with UK Author, Emily Hayworth and is currently working on her next book to help others make the first year in recovery successfully due for release in early 2019. As a writer, she offers Co-Writing Services and Book and Media Promotions and is currently co-writing with a former NFL Football Pro and Olympian alternate A Memoir due in late Fall-2018. She enjoys the solitude of writing. Catherine resides in Arizona and So. Oregon with her husband and three cats. When not writing and advocating, Catherine enjoys gardening, river rafting, reading poetry, and swimming. All her books can be purchased on Amazon online and Amazon Kindle Store, Barnes and Noble and other online retailers. "I don't live IN recovery, I live a beautiful LIFE as I maintain my Recovery!" ~Catherine Townsend-Lyon