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VALERIE CANTELLA

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Hello there...

  • Are you the parent of a special needs child or a teen who struggles with mental health? 
  • Are you an adoptive parent or spouse of an alcoholic? 
  • Are you a perfectionist or someone whose has life not gone as planned? 


If so, this inspiring and authentic memoir is for you.

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a mom's journey through adoption,
a husband's alcoholism,
and special needs parenting

    Book: Off-Script: a mom's journey through adoption a husband's alcoholism, & special needs parenting

    EMBRACE THE UNIMAGINABLE TO LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

    Off-Script: a mom's journey through adoption, a husband's alcoholism, and special needs parenting, provides hope to the hurting.

     

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    Published by Recovering Perfectionist Press.

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    FINDING HOPE IN DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES

    Unputdownable memoir!

    Many girls fantasize about their futures: a loving family, dream job, and a house with a white picket fence. These dreams often turn into expectations for “happily ever after.”

    For Valerie Cantella, childhood hopes of a soul mate, children, and a fulfilling career turned into a script … written and edited to perfection. But life didn’t follow her plan. 

    No matter how hard she tried.

    Over the next twenty years, life unraveled. A lifelong battle with Type 1 diabetes, the unfolding trauma of mental health crises with a special needs adopted daughter, and her husband’s struggle with alcoholism shattered her childhood dreams. 

    And nearly crushed her.

    Nearly.

    But sometimes, an off-script journey takes you through the unimaginable to where you were meant to be all along—amid hope and healing.


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