Coming of Age and Family Chaos

 

Transition. It’s a word that can strike fear in all ages, and both sexes. When we’re young, it can mean facing the decision of an adult.  When in our early 20’s, it can mean embracing a more mature life and making serious career or relationship choices.

Women of transition — what does this mean?  It begins at 35 or so, when that first lip line or wrinkle or sag in the eyelid becomes noticeable. But beyond the physical stuff, it also means the glow of youth is over, and it’s time to bring that glow into our hearts and celebrate who we are, where we’re going, and crash through our walls and fears once and for all.

For Nicky Young, a woman coming of age after being raised in a family battling alcoholism, in Shadow Heart, a Comtemporary Romance Noel, she already feels like she is 35 going on 50 from all of the abandonment and broken promises she’s experienced.

She has trouble grabbing and celebrating her youth, and instead has spent her young years trying to survive and get out of her house, always walking carefully and in soft slippers in her house, focusing completely on pursuing her education.  But now a boy has caught her eye who seems to hint at a possible life that could be, if only she’d take a risk.

But risk taking is the ultimate fear.

Taking a risk means stepping out of the shadows of comfort.

Jumping off her cliff, the one she’s been holding onto for years, the one we can all get trapped on, means giving up control, and that’s the one thing she doesn’t want to lose.

No longer can Nicky watch her father’s rage, waiting to take them all with its broad stroke of hurt.

No longer can Nicky stand to see her mother withdraw into codependency.

She clings to her childhood friends, the ones she’s known, the ones who are safe.

And even as she clings to the past, her future is ripping her hands off the safety of comfort and familiarity, pulling her into a transition. If only she’d embrace it, risk it, take a chance…even if she falls…she might find everything could change.

What can you change by taking a chance?

What does transition mean for you?

Won’t you join the conversation? Shadow Heart, a love story, has been re-edited and retold, and is going to be given away free on Amazong 10/4 and 10/5. Fire Heart, Book 2 in the series is out, continuing the story of the slow reveal of intimacy when growing up facing a family battling addiction.

It changes you.

It freezes you.

It makes you afraid.

It forces you to transition.

If you can be vulnerable,

        If you can trust,

                 You can find intimacy.

                              It’s only then, by trusting yourself, your heart opens.

AND THAT, IS A TRANSITION FROM WHICH YOU’LL NEVER BE THE SAME.

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