Amanda Anderson is an author, small-group curriculum writer, drug and aclohol counselor, life coach, and speaker.She has completed her Associate's degree in Drug and Alcohol Studies and currently works in the recovery industry, facilitating groups on boundaries, life skills, attachment, communication, self esteem, and trauma for patients struggling with addiction and mental health diagnoses. Her ministry, Heart in Training, reaches women's ministries, weekend retreats, mothers groups and recovery gatherings throughout the country. She has spoken at the MOPS International Leadership Convention, the West Coast Life Recovery Convention, and was a frequent guest on New Life Live radio. She has also written a five-week video series and workbook called The Bridge: A Biblical Introduction to the Twelve Steps, available here and on Right Now Media. In 2021, she edited the new small group video series and participants guide How We Love, by best-selling authors and relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich.
 

Like her book All My Friends Have Issues and its companion video Bible study, Amanda's speaking messages focus on discovering freedom through authentic relationships with God and others, releasing perfectionism, seeking spiritual self-awareness, and embracing self care. Having overcome a decade-long struggle with anxiety and depression and worked a Twelve Step program for relationships and alcoholism, Amanda blends psychological research, personal experience and spiritual truths to create topics that are challenging, often hilarious and always culturally relevant.

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Amanda is a passionate quilter, embroidery enthusiast, sustainable gardener, bookworm, beach bum, and flea market junkie. She loves watching English period dramas, going to therapy, traveling with her husband, hanging out with her adult "kids," and talking to her friends for hours about absolutely everything. She lives in Southern California with her husband of 27 years.