I was a daddy's girl from the start. I remember one night when I was about four, my dad came to me with two sleeping bags under his arms and said, "Ready to sleep under the stars?" I was wild with joy. I'd wanted to sleep under the stars for as long as I could remember anything, you know, about three years. I followed him to the back yard, and helped him unroll the sleeping bags on the ground. As I crawled into mine, I looked up at the stars, I felt I had the best dad in the

My major reason for writing my book, The Runaway, is to help others recognize trauma symptoms. Many came to me for depression, anxiety, panic attacks, feeling overwhelmed, or even feeling like they were losing their minds. As we took a history of their life, small details alerted me to the fact that they had trauma. You see, many think that trauma has to be an overwhelming event: war, rape, physical abuse, terrifying storms. So many were unaware that gaslighting, emotional a