Through the Storm

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She moved to L.A. to chase the dream and found a nightmare she couldn't escape.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chantel left Washington D.C. full of hope and starry-eyed ambition. Determined to become a Hollywood actress she imagined a life of red carpets leading roles and validation. But fame had a cost. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through the Storm: The Price of Fame chronicles </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>triumph over traumas and a will to conquer despite circumstance.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After surviving a horrific car crash being sex trafficked abused and left homeless Chantel found herself clinging to nothing but a whisper of hope. Still she refused to go back home. Raised by her great-grandparents with a mother battling mental illness and a missing father she believed that escaping her past was the only way to change her future.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But time and again when she hit rock bottom miracles showed up. A roof over her head. A stranger's kindness. A chance to try again. God was always there-quietly rescuing her from the wreckage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From Los Angeles to New York through the tragic loss of a friend the trauma of family betrayal and the crushing weight of trying to make it Chantel finally learned what no stage no spotlight and no amount of fame could teach her: healing starts when you stop running from who you are-and who God says you are.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is her story of storms survival and the relentless grace that brought her back home-to herself to her purpose and to the light she had all along.</strong></p><p></p>