About the Author, Recovering Perfectionist Valerie Cantella

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Valerie Cantella is an award-winning, multipassionate communications and public affairs professional living a life beyond her wildest dreams. She is the author of Off-Script: a mom’s journey through adoption, a husband’s alcoholism, and special needs parenting. She shares her journey as a mother of teens with mental health issues, the struggles of special needs parenting, the effect of alcoholism on a marriage, and how she learned to embrace the unimaginable to create an extraordinary life.  

Valerie calls herself a recovering perfectionist and is passionate about using her experiences to help others. 

Her love of writing began when her stubby little fingers learned to form letters, and those letters made words that crafted sentences. From those sentences, she wrote short stories, articles, poems, and even two books for her grade school author showcase. Valerie later turned to journalism and a career in communications.  

She is the mom of three adult children–a biological son, an adopted daughter, and a bonus son by marriage. Valerie and her husband, Tom, live in Santa Barbara. When she isn’t writing, you will find her walking at one of their beautiful beaches.   

Her mantra: I will look forward. I will trust God. Today is a new day.  

Valerie's publishing company is Recovering Perfectionist Press.