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''Walking in The Forest, Looking For the Light''. The author, Daina Rose tells her raw, unfiltered story. A memoir of survival, self-discovery, healing and hers hope. Late teenage years marriage in physical and mental abuse relationship, memories from her husband violence, physical and mental abuse even being pregnant and raising children. Daina writes honesty about pain, also about journey out of it.

Never fast enough, never smart enough, never pretty enough - just never enough. I was conditioned from a young age to firmly believe that I would never be enough of anything to attain the unconditional love I craved so deeply from my bipolar, narcissistic mother and the safety and protection I craved from my loving but terrified father. My life truly started the day I woke up and realized that the emotional abuse of my childhood had distorted the lens through which I see myself and the world around me.