It's Your Body but It's My Life

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her father was institutionalized when she was just an infant. Her mother was an alcoholic. The only real parent she ever knew was her older brother.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They say kids are resilient</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I think that's a lie.</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We just wait till we're alone to cry...</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The heartbreakingly raw autobiographical collection of poems and reflections </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It's Your Body but It's My Life</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> honors the feelings of a young girl who learns to cope with the ramifications of growing up with an alcoholic mother. The hurricane of feelings she uncovered-guilt self-doubt and trepidation-come alive in poems such as The Bathtub Prayer and Guarded.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alongside the whirlwind of feelings she unpacks though she is also able to acknowledge the support she received in The Gift and to recognize the inner strength love and resolve she developed in The Gift The Brink and I Realize.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It's Your Body but it's My Life</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> takes you on one woman's journey from acknowledging her grief and anger to discovering her own power of Self-acceptance love and empathy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whether you are an </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Adult Child of an Alcoholic</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>(ACOA) </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>yourself or are seeking to understand someone who is this book will be a guide and a helping hand.</span></p><p></p>