Writer Linda Plunkett helps me wrap up 2024 by chatting about her new health and wellness book, Living a Positive Life in a Negative World: My Uphill Journey.
Bio:
Linda S. Plunkett is a licensed counselor, speaker, and author of Supernatural Rescue: From Broken to Beautiful and Living a Positive Life in a Negative World: My Uphill Journey. She has been married over 35 years to her husband, Jim, and they have three adult children. For over 20 years she operated a counseling practice called Hope for the Hurting. She had been an inspirational speaker since 1999, speaking as far away as Guatemala. Her hobbies are travel, golf and ballroom dancing. In 2018, Linda was given a dance hero award at Millennium Dance Competition for offering hope, inspiration, and encouragement to others encountering battles with health and physical pain.
Welcome, Linda. Please tell us about your current release.
Living a Positive Life in a Negative World: My Uphill Journey offers healing tools for the body, brain, mind, and spirit in addition to providing a path to healing for readers who are going through hopelessness, depression, or who have felt separated from God. The book has been featured in the Miami Book Fair and seen in the New York Times.
What inspired you to write this book?
A number of people requested me to write this book. People universally need help with getting through all the negativity and they wanted me to share personal tools so that they too might have hope in overcoming adversity. Being a brain surgery and Fibromyalgia survivor had taught me many lessons.
What exciting project are you working on next?
My third book! Details to come!
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
Extensive writing to complete the PhD program convinced me!
Do you write full-time? If so, what’s your workday like? If not, what do you do other than write and how do you find time to write?
I write, but also pursue other hobbies and interests as well as doing speaking engagements and interviews. I attempt to schedule specific time for writing, including journaling.
What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
I write from a background in psychology/ministry, but also from overcoming personal dilemmas and trials.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A teacher
Anything additional you want to share with the readers?
Dream your dreams – but never give up! Life is filled with possibilities!
This is an interview with short but profound answers. I am impressed with Linda Plunkett’s depth of thought. Great interview choice!