True stories of healing and transcendence What do you do when someone you love is destroying his or her life – and your relationship? We all have a friend, relative, or loved one who makes choices we don’t understand. The more advice we give them, the more stubbornly they resist our help. Confusion and hurt and anger prevent us from seeing the truth: Nothing changes until we change. Relationship expert Auriela McCarthy’s life-changing new book tells us “We must lose the battle of being right to win the war of being happy.” These are insightful stories of ordinary people who hit rock bottom before they learn to stop struggling and realize that they can’t change other people’s behaviors, but only their own. Their triumph is not of will, but of surrender. These stories will challenge your thinking, bring tears to your eyes, and astonish you with their unexpected endings. And they will change you in profound ways as you realize that each story is a story about you.