Emergency Plan -Or- Doomsday List

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fifteen. Seventy pounds overweight. No plan. No boyfriend. No future. I was the girl who settled for a Tom Selleck poster and a dream choked with a hand to mouth life working two jobs like my mom did-until my grocery cart crashed into a woman in a red cape. Not a costume. Not a kid. A grown-up Little Red Riding Hood eyes sharp as steel and a jaw clenched against a world full of too many cakes and cookies and not enough hard-cutting honesty.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What came next wasn't a fairy tale-it was a demolition. Every illusion I clung to-about love beauty success and wealth...and the lie that someday fixes everything-got torched. I faced my bulging mirror and saw the mountain I had to climb. I had a choice to make: did I want it? Did I really want it?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS DANI?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You think it's a simple question and a simple answer but it's the hardest thing you'll ever have to decide-a great hurt wrapped in the truth that no one is coming to save you.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This isn't your safe-space story. It's a wake-up call. And I'm warning you. My journey out of illusions and into honesty will probably piss you off and break your heart. It might even force you to face a few ugly truths about love loss and a few facts of life about seeking your dreams if you still have any. Let me tell you life's no equal-opportunity winner's circle. After a few years of bad training or no training at all life doesn't hand out equal shots-it hands out consequences. Bad habits. Broken homes. Lazy dreams. They stack up fast and most people just keep adding weight to the pile.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But you don't have to be like them. The question is the same for you as it was for me: are you tough enough to take advice? Can you put aside your illusions long enough to listen? I stopped. I listened. I fought. I changed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Truth doesn't chase anyone. You have to go after her catch up and walk with her and talk with her and stop being afraid of her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is the first of four books full of dreams and doubts love and learning facing a mountain and deciding to climb it.</span></p><p></p>