Wake Up Call

About the Book

Deprived of her dreams and hopes, powerless to change the terrifying and self destructive course her daughter charted for herself, author Judy Martin describes the unexected transformation that this "parent´s worst nightmare" lead her into. If you´ve struggled with the limits of your powers, grieved the loss of a loved one, a serious illness, or your own lost dream, you´ll rediscover yourself on these well written pages. Wake Up Call is not another fix-yourself book. Judy Martin sends the message we long to hear: "No matter how skillful you are, no matter how well intended you are, and no matter how hard you try, sometimes you can´t know and you can´t do." Please visit Judy Martin´s website www.jmartinmft.com/troubled.html to learn more about her work with parents of troubled teens.

About the Author

The harsh ringing of the phone jolted me out of my soporific state. It was Mary Simms, head counselor at my teenage daughter’s therapeutic boarding school. I froze, in anticipation of bad news. Terse and to the point, she told me, “Ellen is on the way to the emergency room. She drank laundry detergent last night and again this morning.” As if in a time warp, I flashed back to the day three years ago when twelve-year old Ellen, pale and close to tears told me, “Mom, I just took thirty two Tylenol. I’m scared.” Encountering once obstacle after another, Jenny Mason struggles to block her daughter’s myriad self-destructive behaviors. But nothing she does has any lasting impact. Frustrated and filled with grief, Jenny faces the true limits of her power. And in so doing, quite unexpectedly discovers, “The Eye Of The Hurricane.”