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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In these snapshots from on-going sagas, you'll read about grim realities - terrible group homes, suicides, adult children killed by police, incarcerations, solitary confinement, lack of beds, family chaos, substance abuse, ineffective medications, heart-breaking HIPAA restrictions, hallucinations, homelessness, sorrow, hurt, and anger. Simultaneously, you'll read about profound love, caregiving, gratitude, forgiveness, hope, strength, persistence, resilience, generosity, leadership, courage, pursuing dreams, understanding, and heroism.</p><p><br></p><p>Please read our stories. Set aside any conscious biases about serious mental illnesses (SMI) and the people and families who struggle with them. Imagine us as relatives or friends - people you care deeply about. We mothers, in Tomorrow Was Yesterday, </em>are counting on you to help us use outrage and compassion to reach a tipping point for change. We're relying on your word of mouth support to get these stories out to the broader, unknowing public. It has no idea how abysmal things are.</p><p>-Dede Ranahan</p><p><br></p><p>"I am confident these stories will cause the world to wake up, take notice, and implement the change we so badly need."</p><p>-</em>Miriam Feldman, painter and author of He Came In with It: A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness</em></p><p><br></p><p>"</em>Reading these intimate accounts will change you. It changed me."</p><p>-Steve Goldbloom, Emmy-nominated writer, producer, director, and creator of the Brief But Spectacular </em>series for PBS NEWsHour. The show's mission is to invite viewers to walk in someone else's shoes.</p><p><br></p><p>"If these stories can't convince policy makers, I don't know what will."</p><p>-Mindy Greiling, Minnesota legislator for 20 years, and author of Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son</em></p>

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