Living in Shadow and Light: The harrowing story of a woman who survived domestic violence showing you how to help your loved one overcome battered (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780992046231)

Roxanne Whatley is an award winning advocate for effective domestic violence solutions, best selling author, docudrama film producer, companion animal rescue promoter, as well as todays leading expert in the field of mind root behavior psychology. She's known as "the guru of why we do what we do." Born into the world of film & television in Studio City, California to a man who was a grip at Paramount Studios and his struggling screenwriter wife, Roxanne lived the duality of upbeat outside appearances and the darkness behind closed doors. Her father - an alcoholic; her mother - suffering from narcissistic personality disorder; her childhood - filled with abuse, neglect, illness and trauma. Displaying what she would later understand to be a level of intuitive accuracy usually found in life threatening war zones, she set out to discover what this faculty was, how it worked, why it was so feared and derided in society, and why everyone didn't naturally have the skill. She also wanted desperately to understand what love was, how relationships worked, to fix them, heal them and support them. Out of her self questioning difficult childhood she battled bulimia/anorexia, depression and a deep belief that she was worthless founding herself as an adult in a series of escalating abusive relationships, one so severe she was being shoved from a speeding car into heavy oncoming traffic, with emergency room specialists reading her CAT scan astounded she survived the multiple fractures of her skull. The immediate aftermath plunged her into overwhelming legal, financial and further life threatening trauma. While still struggling with her own emotional and physical issues, she found herself homeless and destitute. Pulling herself out by research, counseling others and herself, she spent the last 20 years behind the scenes helping other victims & families of domestic violence learn to be survivors. Her #1 best selling book, Living in Shadow and Light, is being developed into a docudrama by her production company Vanadis Films. She was given the prestigious "Hathor Award" for her tireless work to help those women and children come through domestic violence to heal from battered woman syndrome and PTSD. She is a consultant in the field of human interaction & communication; an advisor to first responders confronting abuse; she works with animal rescues to help them be more self sustaining. She can be found living in her shadow and light, and at RoxanneWhatley.com