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    Evolving to Grace

    By Grace Lozada

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    Evolving to Grace is a memoir about perseverance, strength, spiritual evolution, and the choices one must make to change one’s path. I share my life’s experiences, my journey—finding my way out of darkness—discovering hope, positivity, strength, happiness and the right path for the life I choose to live. I write about many challenges I've had to face and overcome—either due to alcoholism, depression, violence, rape and being a single mother on welfare.

    Life can be a roller-coaster ride for some more than others. Mine has been this way. Born into generations of educated, privileged, and successful millionaires, in this memoir I tell a story of how one generation’s downfall due to financial, emotional, and addiction problems had crippling, traumatic effects on everyone around them, including myself. This story is about my journey of how I was going to fight with every fiber of my being, so that I would not follow in the footsteps of others. From very dark times as a teenager where I believed suicide was the only option to later entertaining times in my early 20’s living in the City of Angels, hobnobbing with professional athletes and entertainers.

    I could be labeled many things: illegal, ACoA (Adult Child of an Alcoholic), domestic violence survivor, excessive alcohol and drug user, rape victim, assault victim, hitchhiker, high school dropout, call girl, and single mother on welfare. But, these are just situations I ended up in when I was lost and broken. I've learned from my past and I am evolving to find my grace in this beautiful thing we call life. I write to to share my experiences with others with the hope that no one, despite whatever situation they may be going through, will ever give up. You can change your destiny, your path.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrace Lozada
    Release dateDec 6, 2015
    ISBN9781311908520
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    Evolving to Grace
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    Grace Lozada

    I'm a photographer, writer-author, single mom and survivor. I began writing poetry when I was 11. Lines just came to me and I felt this need to write them down - big magic! Evolving to Grace is about my life's experiences-finding my way out of darkness, from living with alcoholism and abuse in the home, suffering many years with depression even suicidal at times, to being raped at 16 years old-later discovering hope, positivity, strength, happiness and the right path for the life I choose to live, for myself and my son. And lastly, I write to share my experiences with others with the hope that no one, despite whatever situation they may be going through, will ever give up. You can change your destiny-path. I've come a long way. It is all about finding hope, optimism and perspective on things. Though my memoir ends on a sad note, my life is actually pretty good, now - I'm happy and content. In my my 9-5, I work in Accounting and hope that one day I will do photography and write on a full-time basis, leaving behind the corporate world returning back to my more creative side. Also, I couldn't be happier for my son. He is at a prominent university and enjoying life. He is a happy, very funny and a compassionate young man with so many possibilities in front of him. I couldn't have asked for a better outcome. And, life is not dark anymore. There have been good times throughout my life, yes some tragic things happened to me, but life is better and I look forward to what lies in my future. The endless possibilities - places to see and re-see, new things to experience, people to meet, loves to have and definitely more books to write. Next time, possibly fiction. Life is beautiful!

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