LIVING FOR TODAY is in stores now. Released November 2nd 2009

I have done so much growing in my life from my first book to my second book. Where in the first book you hear the voice of a child and teenager this book is the voice of the woman I have become. Just like in my first book I open my life up to the public eye sharing details most may not even share with their closest friends. It begins with the voice of my younger sister. I am all about people breaking their silence and having their voices be heard. Many have often asked me how the abuse affected my sister and how she is doing today. I decided to open the book up with her voice. I then begin the first chapter taking a big piece of my entire first book Stolen Innocence and put it into one chapter. I then take readers on a journey of how my life changed by the decisions I made to go forward with my story. Little did I know one late night as I sat writing I found myself feeling stuck as if I could not write anymore. There was one chapter to my past that I left out of the first book and felt I could not write a second book without addressing it. What I was not prepared for was the journey that chapter would take me down. A chapter of my past that never haunted me until I went away to college. By opening up about one chapter suddenly many more chapters of my life come from it with so many surprises up until the very last page.

I talk a great deal in Living for Today about healing and forgiveness. I feel as if in healing from sexual abuse their is a cycle you go through from being numb, denial, painful memories, despair, anger. Anger and painful memories is a place many people jump back and forth through reaching the place of peace and forgiveness seems impossible to many but I give an inside look into how forgiveness led me to the peace and happiness I longed for realizing that staying angry was only allowing the evil I have seen still have a tight grip on me robbing me of my every day life. I made the choice to not live for the past but for TODAY.

When I wrote my first book I never imagined it would take me across America sharing my journey. It was the voice that was silenced as a child and too ashamed to tell anyone that is now finding inspiration in speaking to thousands and am moved when I can stand before a podium of hundreds of people talking about pain I thought would stay behind closed doors forever. Pain that has since turned into a purpose. A purpose to reach others in their journey where ever they may be in finding courage and strength to not be ashamed and silenced but empowered and heard.

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