Captivating Author and Intriguing Storyline All in One Book

AWARD WINNING AUTHOR

Debra Atlas’s book “You Aren’t Depression’s Victim” has received a 2024 BookFest Award in three categories: Body, Mind & Spirit – Healing; Health & Wellness – Mental Health; and Self-Help – Anxiety, Depression & Mental Health.

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This website and its contents are meant for explorers – readers who are seeking new ideas, possibilities, maybe even outside the box thinking. That’s been my credo and my guideposts along my often twisting, winding road. Here you’ll find links to my newest book – with more to come! 

So thanks for finding this site. Have fun exploring what’s here and be sure to come back regularly to see what’s new!

how captivating author was born

Debra Atlas has been a professional writer, blogger and journalist since 2008. A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, her articles have covered topics as wide ranging as climate change, green innovation and agricultural themes. 

Her work has been published in newspapers, in regional and national magazines and on numerous web and blog sites, including on her blog envirothink.wordpress.com. This is her first published book – the first of what she hopes will be many – and is a departure from all that’s come before.

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Debra Atlas is featured in many interviews, radio shows, and podcast to help people suffering from depression. 

You Aren’t Depression’s Victim!

What if you didn’t have to fall down into that dark pit but could see it coming and step away from it? You Aren’t Depression’s Victim chronicles author Debra Atlas’s life and struggles with depression. It tells Atlas’s story plus it offers life-changing insights for those living with this often debilitating illness. This empowering book reveals:

  • how to identify where the edge of depression actually is,
  • strategies to help you recognize depression before it hits,
  • and simple actions that can help us step back from the edge of that dark pit.
An environmental journalist, a newspaper columnist, a workshop leader, a professional speaker and blogger, Debra Atlas has dealt head on with acute depression, personal crises, even a brush with suicide. Her book engages readers, offering life-changing insights that help them discover new possibilities that enable them to take back their lives.

Debra Atlas’s You Aren’t Depression’s Victim is a departure from her usual journalistic writing. The book is designed to be uplifting and empowering, offering readers new ideas and thought-provoking possibilities to consider and presents the idea that we have a choice when faced with depression.

You Aren’t Depression’s Victim!

What if you didn’t have to fall down into that dark pit but could see it coming and step away from it? You Aren’t Depression’s Victim chronicles author Debra Atlas’s life and struggles with depression. It tells Atlas’s story plus it offers life-changing insights for those living with this often debilitating illness. This empowering book reveals:

  • how to identify where the edge of depression actually is,
  • strategies to help you recognize depression before it hits,
  • and simple actions that can help us step back from the edge of that dark pit.
An environmental journalist, a newspaper columnist, a workshop leader, a professional speaker and blogger, Debra Atlas has dealt head on with acute depression, personal crises, even a brush with suicide. Her book engages readers, offering life-changing insights that help them discover new possibilities that enable them to take back their lives.

We're an audiobook now!

You Aren’t Depression’s Victim is now an audiobook! It’s available on Audible, on Amazon and on iTunes! Designed for easy listening, it includes everything the book has.

One in four American adults suffers from depression. Add to that seasonal affect disorder (SAD) – that malaise that comes from winter’s diminished sunlight – PLUS the looming stress that comes with the holidays. No wonder so many people have a difficult time during this time of year. 

But NOW there’s a perfect resource to help you step back from all that! 

So head over to any of those three online venues I mentioned and download your copy of the audiobook You Aren’t Depression’s Victim TODAY!

This just might change your life!!

Want to know how to beat depression and take your life back?

Step Back From The Edge is your ticket to powerful strategies that can empower you

and free you from automatically falling into depression.

Check out this free introductory webinar today!

uPCOMING EVENTS

Stay updated for more news items, events and a blog focused on information related to the book.

Come meet the Author

Want answers about how to deal with depression? Want to learn how to NOT be a victim of it?

Join depression author Debra Atlas for a Meet and Greet and/or a book signing in your area of her book You Aren’t Depression’s Victim. It could change your life!

BOOK SIGNINGS AND EVENTS!

book signings!

Stay tuned for more events coming soon!

 

 

Something's Coming - VERY Soon!!

Something’s in the works – something you’ll want to dive into.

Are your tired of falling into the depression pit? Are you looking for simple steps you can take to help you keep moving forward instead of getting “stuck” a lot? 

Then you won’t want to miss what’s coming.

We’ll be launching a very cool new program very soon. It will take material from the book You Aren’t Depression’s Victim and will blast way past it – offering up new possibilities that could empower the heck out of you!

So be sure to check back. You definitely want to know about this!

 

 

There’s a new and exciting webinar series on the horizon. Based on the life-changing book You Aren’t Depression’s Victim, Step Back from the Edge will launch with a free 30 minute introductory session. This program addresses the mind-boggling question: “What if you didn’t have to go on automatic when anxiety or depression show up?  What if you had another choice?” So check back to find out when this eye-opening and empowering webinar will be open for registration!

Being in this webinar could mean taking your life back!

LATEST INTERVIEWS

PODCAST INTERVIEWS

You Aren’t Depression’s Victim |  Lone Star Authors- Debra Atlas

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RADIO INTERVIEWS

You Aren’t Depression’s Victim | The Authors Show with Don McLaughlin – Debra Atlas

VIDEO INTERVIEWS

You Aren’t Depression’s Victim | Mental Health Mondays with Marla and Dave – Debra Atlas

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Debra Atlas is featured in many interviews, radio shows, and podcast to help people suffering from depression.