Erin Evans has written with great courage and honesty of her journey through life. The rawness of her writing of intimate experiences will touch everyone who has, and perhaps is still, engaged in a similar journey. Readers will look through a lens of self blame, guilt, shame, resignation, disappointment, determination, endurance, resilience, hope, courage and accomplishment. Erin provides a first hand view of survival and how survivors of abuse can experience empowerment and control in their lives.