Who's Got Your Back?

In Who’s Got Your Back? engaging characters are rising to the best within themselves as each one faces different and very real issues in life—among them single parenting and parental rejection, childhood incest revealed as an adult and the painful transformations that accompany major illness within the family. They draw the reader into a depth of feeling common to each of us. It is through these specific issues of life we each encounter that we are challenged to make choices, and it is through these choices that we manifest and become who we are in this world. Who’s Got Your Back? powerfully expresses the gamut of emotions from the dearest, innocent humor and tenderness of childhood to the soaring loves and sorrows throughout adult life. Pulled together by a young girl named Pauli, these characters face life’s realities with courage and strength. They bond with moving loyalty, such that the reader is left with an ever present beacon of hope and optimism. Who’s Got Your Back? is a novel that will remain within the reader’s heart.

Author's note:

My belief in women—our strength, our determination, our willingness to grow—was the driving force compelling me to write Who’s Got Your Back? The issues of single parenting, relationships, trust and self-esteem are all issues many women deal with on a daily basis. The counseling work and the Self-Equation at the end of the book can speak to each of us. We all want to eliminate our negative, learned behaviors and patterns of thinking and believing about ourselves and to encourage the continuing development of our positive, innate qualities. We all strive to achieve healthier relationships and feelings of self-worth. I am urging each of us to listen to children and, if needed, to seek help ourselves as adults to heal and recover that self we came into the world to be. AUTHOR'S NOTE:My belief in women—our strength, our determination, our willingness to grow—was the driving force compelling me to write Who’s Got Your Back? The issues of single parenting, relationships, trust and self-esteem are all issues many women deal with on a daily basis. The counseling work and the Self-Equation at the end of the book can speak to each of us. We all want to eliminate our negative, learned behaviors and patterns of thinking and believing about ourselves and to encourage the continuing development of our positive, innate qualities. We all strive to achieve healthier relationships and feelings of self-worth. I am urging each of us to listen to children and, if needed, to seek help ourselves as adults to heal and recover that self we came into the world to be.In 1991 I was privileged to participate in Scared Silent, a nationally aired television documentary hosted by Oprah Winfrey, which dramatically portrayed individuals who had experienced the harsh realities of child abuse. The purpose of Scared Silent was to educate our nation about child abuse in all its forms and the lasting damages that abuse causes.

Abuse occurs in secrecy and silence. The abused child is expected to eat dinner, do homework, go to school and appear to live a normal life. Living that charade saps the very life energy and innocence of the child, requiring enormous efforts to preserve the illusion of normalcy. This pretense is laden with hidden painful feelings that continue into adulthood, inevitably affecting day-to-day life, self-esteem and relationships.

It is my hope that Who’s Got Your Back? reflects the depth of loving and trust we as women possess. I believe that our initiative and ingenuity can lead us to be leaders in our nation to help stop child abuse in all its forms.

We must become active participants to stop child abuse in our country so that each of us may become that Self we came into the world to be.