“Where am I? What has happened to me? I thought I was just going about my life, living the dream. But something is not right. I am not myself. I’m missing things, not as sharp as I should be. I worry a lot, don’t have much energy, and I feel exhausted all the time. In fact, I am not sleeping well, my mind races at night, and I can’t get things out of my head. My relationships are…
Introduction
It was winter 2014 when my fourteen-year-old daughter, Courtney, ran away from home. After an angst-filled family vacation, she snapped and rushed from the house in the middle of a family movie night. Not one to do anything by halves, Courtney fled in the middle of a raging snowstorm, after dark, in her socks. Fortunately, her older sister chased her down…