Surviving My Toxic Childhood

Growing up in a home with a verbally and physically abusive father and an alcoholic and promiscuous mother, Jane thinks she can escape by going to the convent. She plans to offer her life for her mothers conversion, even taking her mothers name as a nun. When the perfect convent life she visualized doesnt happen, Jane recognizes that she has made a mistakeand must leave the convent to return to the secular world. Realizing that a return home will put her back into the same toxic situation that she left behind, Jane attempts suicide in the convent. Inspired by actual events, this book chronicles Janes eventual survival.