title: Loss and Found: A Memoir
author:  Karen Flyer 
description: Karen Flyer, M.B.A. and Executive Director of COPE, a grief organization for parents living with the loss of a child, is a survivor of parental suicide, substance and sexual abuse, a life-threatening eating disorder, and low self-esteem. She is the author of the memoir Loss and Found, which details her tumultuous life. Judy Eldredge-Root, M.Ed., CAGS, is a school psychologist and clinical mental health counselor who has worked since 1983 as a therapist, guidance counselor, instructor in an MA/M.Ed. program, and most recently as a school psychologist working with troubled children, adolescents and teens in and out of a school setting.
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  OTHER TITLES BY LOUISE GUY:
  
   _Everyday Lies_
  
   _Rival Sisters_
  
   _A Life Worth Living_
  
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