<p><strong style="background-color: inherit">A Moving Memoir of Struggle, Hope and the Power of the&nbsp;</strong><span style="background-color: inherit"></span><strong style="background-color: inherit">Heart</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: inherit">Three things defined Pam's family growing up:&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: inherit">alcoholism, inherited trauma, and secrets</strong><span style="background-color: inherit">.&nbsp;On the outside, her middle-class family appeared successful, happy and well-adjusted. On the inside, her father's alcoholism, and the&nbsp;generational&nbsp;legacy of addiction, held everyone captive.</span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: inherit">For over thirty years the past would not be linked to the present until her father, after a near fatal intake of alcohol, chose sobriety&nbsp;The family&nbsp;was then faced with forging a healing path through the emotional wreckage that remained.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: inherit">Miraculously, the&nbsp;search for truth brought&nbsp;love out of the shadows to shine&nbsp;light&nbsp;on&nbsp;her father's long-held secret of childhood mistreatment and trauma.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: inherit">The&nbsp;challenges along the path brought many&nbsp;gifts,&nbsp;slowly&nbsp;inspiring&nbsp;the&nbsp;bravery&nbsp;to grow and&nbsp;bestow&nbsp;the&nbsp;kind of&nbsp;forgiveness&nbsp;revealed only in the&nbsp;presence of true&nbsp;courage.&nbsp;In a journey neither father nor daughter could have&nbsp;imagined, alcoholism became a masterful teacher.</span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: inherit">Yet their greatest teacher would come later as he lay dying from cancer. In a remarkable promise&nbsp;delivered&nbsp;just weeks before he died, an otherworldly presence told them death would not be their final separation. Their destiny to be together would continue into the afterlife,&nbsp;allowing for&nbsp;unprecedented healing.</span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: inherit">Pam's story will touch your heart. It will encourage you to see that every challenge, no matter how devastating, holds the key to your own healing. You aren't alone with your struggles. There is always hope. And always waiting to be discovered is the power of the heart to transform relationships. Love and healing know no boundaries, not even death.</span></p>