At age 10, a little girl loses the most important person in her young life. Devastating words spoken by a parent at the most fragile and vulnerable moment in the child's life leaves the little girl with the overwhelming belief that happiness will always be followed by tragic loss. For decades, well into adulthood, she sabotages her own well-being in the misguided conviction that she is protecting those she loves. Through her own inner strength, she is able to begin a process of healing, knowing that it will be the only way she might find the happiness she has denied herself since childhood. Her story is one of remarkable courage, resilience, and recovery.