White Flag

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cheryl said many times that I'm done with that life I'll never go back to it. But she did. When her Aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years of thinking she may be dead she hopes and prays this is a second chance for her niece. Her sensitive funny bookworm niece. Her big sister's eldest daughter the sister who has since died. And through writing </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>White Flag</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author Judy L. Mandel finds that it didn't start with Cheryl but that the tentacles of trauma explored in her first book </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Replacement Child</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> have grabbed hold of her niece too. She struggles with being powerless to help Cheryl and she discovers that transgenerational trauma and epigenetics may have started this avalanche of pain. She wonders why some people can recover from addiction and others cannot. Why some are able to raise their white flag of surrender.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em>White Flag</em> was a category finalist for the Eric Hoffer and a bronze medalist for the psychology/mental health category for the IPPY awards in May 2023.</p><p><br></p><p>Release date = October 1 2022</p>