"Anne Yero has worked intimately with battered women for over a decade. She has learned a great deal, not only about the women she's encountered, but also about her own past history. Yero shares her personal journey, about her childhood, her marriage to Lee, about their early years together on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, the births of their three beautiful children, and then the very painful yet liberating years as their marriage faltered and then dissolved. It was through this experience that she learned about exercising personal power, making peace with the past, understanding that loss is part of living a full life, and then finally, about how to be an active participant in a healthy relationship."--Back cover.