Never An Ever After

If you don't already know me, my name is Paige. I am a 23-year-old woman, married, and have a beautiful baby boy who has taught me much about life. Don't judge me by my age - I started life a lot earlier than most 23-year-old girls do. I haven't always been here, though. I haven't always reveled in this place of stability and happiness.

I am also sober. Sobriety has been a big thing for me, along with anxiety and other tribulations that have held me back from being who I truly am.

I started in an abusive environment and muddled my way through drug and alcohol abuse, self-destructive tendencies, attempted suicide, and crippling anxiety. Agoraphobia toyed with me for many years, and just when I thought I'd lost the proverbial fight and should let the vultures peck and tear and me, my life took a different path.

This book is not your typical quit-lit for addicts or survival guide for sexual abuse victims and anxiety sufferers. Instead, it is a compilation of snippets from my mind, details of my life, that I hope will help others who are suffering in the way that I needed help so desperately along the way. Often, all I needed was a knowing look, an understanding hand rub, or words shared of similar traumas - I needed that, but I didn't get it.

I hope that this book will be that for you.