What happened to Us: A Healing Path Through America's Divide

Book One of the Way Forward Series

What do you do when someone you love becomes someone you can't reach?

When holidays turn into battlefields? When silence replaces conversation? When the divide feels permanent?

What Happened to Us is the book for this moment—an aftermath manual for families, communities, and a nation trying to find their way home.

With the compassion of a healer and the honesty of someone who's done her own work, Linda L McDonald explores:

• How fear captured so many of us—and why
• The trap we all share, regardless of which side we're on
• What doesn't work (and why we keep trying it)
• What might actually help
• How to be present when someone starts to wake up
• The grief we'll face—and how to move through it

This isn't about politics. It's about people. It's about understanding, owning, healing—and choosing love even when it's hard.

Because the way forward is together.

Book One of The Way Forward series.