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Author Biography

Shannon L. Alder is an inspirational author, rehabilitation therapist, activist, and widely quoted voice in personal growth, relationships, emotional healing, and self-empowerment. With more than 1,200 original quotations featured on her Goodreads profile, her words have reached readers around the world and are frequently shared throughout mental-health, counseling, recovery, and relationship communities. Her work is especially recognized for helping survivors understand narcissistic and emotional abuse, rebuild their identities, establish healthier boundaries, and move forward with renewed faith and purpose.

Alder is the author of numerous relationship, family, and self-help books, including The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse, which appeared on Bravo's Reality TV, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2021. Her published books include:

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• The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse

• 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It’s Too Late

• 350 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

• 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a More Vibrant Marriage

• 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

• 350 Questions Parents Should Ask During Family Night

 

These books are part of her Questions for Stronger Families collection, created to encourage meaningful conversations, strengthen relationships, and help families discuss the questions that are too important to leave unasked.

 

Alder has also written the eBooks The Keto German Cookbook: Low-Carb Oktoberfest Food You Can Eat Every Day and Why Can’t I Lose Weight on Keto? How to Lose 50 Pounds Like Everyone Else—Fast!

 

Beyond her books, Alder is the founder of the Facebook community Staying Positive University, where she shares uplifting quotations, articles, and encouragement with readers seeking greater hope and emotional resilience after emotional abuse. She also created and hosts The Toxic Podcast: Christian Women Breaking Free from Toxic Relationships, a faith-centered program addressing narcissistic abuse, emotional manipulation, toxic relationship patterns, spiritual healing, and life after abuse.

 

Her commitment to healing extends far beyond the written page. Alder practices as a rehabilitation therapist at a trauma hospital and is completing her education to become a drug and alcohol counselor. Her professional work reflects the same mission found throughout her books: helping people recover from trauma, reclaim their dignity, and build lives no longer controlled by pain.

 

Philanthropy is also central to Alder’s life and work. Royalties from her books help fund medical missions to developing countries and support efforts assisting children with disabilities. At the urging of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Gerald Mullen and Tim Ballard of O.U.R. Rescue and portrayed in the movie, Sound of Freedom, Alder traveled to Cambodia to support efforts combating human trafficking.

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An activist at heart, Alder has spent much of her life serving people, animals, and communities in crisis. She served for ten years on a Search and Rescue team, helping locate missing people throughout the Sierra Nevada wilderness. She was also a member of Sea Shepherd for five years and participated in Operation Jairo, helping protect and rescue sea turtles in Florida.

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Whether she is writing, counseling trauma survivors, speaking about toxic relationships, searching the wilderness for someone who is missing, protecting endangered wildlife, or supporting humanitarian work abroad, Shannon L. Alder’s mission remains the same: to help people find healing, freedom, courage, and a renewed sense of purpose.