Lone Star Book Blogger Tour: ROAD TO HOPE by Dena Jansen ***AUTHOR PLAYLIST & GIVEAWAY***

ROAD TO HOPE

How One Woman Went from Doubting Her Path to Embracing Her Inner Journey

by

Dena Jansen

Genre: Memoir / Inspirational / Christian Life
Publication Date: November 15, 2019

Number of Pages: 240 pages

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Have you ever felt stuck? If so, you are not alone. As a 36-year-old wife, mother, and corporate executive, Dena Jansen’s life looked successful by society’s standards. But she found herself at an intersection—stranded at a real-life crossroads in her life.

Over a matter of years, darkness and doubt slowly crept in, leaving her unsure and unsettled in her life, marriage, and career. And after stalling out multiple times and nearly wrecking everything, she finally grabbed hold of a life-saving truth: She had a choice to make. She could stay stuck, or she could try and find new roads that would lead to the peace and joy she was looking for. With a glimmer of hope, Dena embraced the gifts of curiosity and grace and began a journey of self-discovery. And she chose to believe in a new truth: She was meant for more and could no longer settle. In Road to Hope, Dena invites you to join her as she wanders the roads she traveled and take anything you need from her story to help you in yours. She shares how she grew from a woman who doubted her path to one who is confident and ready for the next adventure. And she wants you to experience a similar shift. And more than that, she believes you can.

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Road to Hope Playlist

Traveller ~ Chris Stapleton

How Far I’ll Go ~ Auli’I Cravalho

Road Less Traveled ~ Lauren Alaina

Walk (feat. Fetty Wap) ~ Kwabs, Fetty Wap

Rise Up ~ Andra Day

Somebody to Love ~ Kacey Musgraves

Something New ~ Dawn Mitschele

Pimpin’ Joy ~ Walker Hayes

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For ~ U2

You’ve Got A Friend ~ James Taylor

Village ~ Cam

Still ~ Hillary Scott & The Scott Family

Gotta Be Me ~ Cody Johnson

The Climb ~ Miley Cyrus

I Love Me ~ Meghan Trainor, LunchMoney Lewis

Peaceful Easy Feeling ~ Eagles

We Own It (Fast & Furious) ~ 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa

Glorious (feat. Skylar Grey) ~ Macklemore, Skylar Gray

Wide Open Spaces~ Dixie Chicks

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Dena Jansen’s calling to lift others up is profoundly personal. She understands the fears and doubts that hold people back because she has them too. Her own path to fulfillment is a real-life journey that’s still very much in progress. As a CPA and retired partner from Austin-based CPA firm Maxwell Locke & Ritter, she launched Dena Speaks to inspire potential seeking individuals and businesses. Dena shares life and love with her husband, JP, and their two children, Trace, and Elizabeth in Buda, Texas. She loves romantic comedy movies, listening to podcasts, and spending time with her family and friends.

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Lone Star Book Blogger Tour: ROUNDING HOME by Sarah Swindell ***EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY!***

ROUNDING HOME

by

SARAH SWINDELL

  Genre: Memoir / Family / Autism

Date of Publication: August 2, 2019

Number of Pages: 256

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In 1991, twenty-one-year-old Sarah, the recently divorced mother to two-year-old Hayley, moved from the dusty small town of Farmington, New Mexico to the bustling city of Houston, Texas with dreams of a better life. A year later, she was swept off her feet by Greg Swindell, an established Major League Baseball player who had just signed a lucrative contract with the Houston Astros and was quickly becoming the talk of the city. 

Six weeks after their first date, Greg asked Sarah to quit her job as a hairdresser and marry him during Spring Training in Florida. Over the next several years, Sarah's Cinderella story continued with the addition of three more children, a lifestyle only a few ever dream of living, and a love story even fewer ever experience.

That is until 2002 when her picture-perfect life came to a gut-wrenching halt, and Sarah was faced with more pain than she ever thought possible. For almost a decade, the puzzle pieces would cease to align due to an avalanche of events; a devastating autism diagnosis, a painful affair, multiple marriages, multiple divorces and her children's own personal struggles with self-harm, eating disorders, and attempted suicide. 

If you have ever felt lost, betrayed, or heartbroken, this story will inspire you to never give up on finding true joy and happiness again. It will prove there is no such thing as the “perfect family” and that difficult times can actually make you stronger than you ever dreamed possible.

 

PRAISE FOR ROUNDING HOME:

"Rounding Home takes you on a riveting journey through the eyes of an exceptional woman who embraced struggle, love, success, and the unimaginable, autism. Get ready to laugh, cry, and flutter with romance; it’s one hell of a love story!" -- Gena Lee Nolin, actress, author, advocate, “Thyroid Sexy,” wife & mother

"In Rounding Home, Sarah writes with gritty honesty, a deeply moving account of life with her autistic son. This testament to the resilience of the human spirit will touch your heart and soul." -- Gayle Nobel, life coach, autism mom, and author of three books about living with autism

"This story of the Swindell family is a poignant demonstration of how each family member responded and was changed, for better or worse, as they struggled to come to terms with how their lives had been altered. And although there was damage along the way, they ultimately triumph by rekindling the love that created their family unit in the first place." -- Dr. Bryan Jepson, author, physician, and father of two sons with autism

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PROLOGUE, PART TWO

FROM ROUNDING HOME

BY SARAH SWINDELL

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Austin, Texas - Winter 2011 (continued)

I backed out of the driveway and pushed my Dixie Chicks CD in. I knew that I was only torturing myself by listening to it when I was already so upset, but I did it anyway.  This was our music, Greg’s and mine.  

            As the Dixie Chicks sang, my mind raced back to all that had happened in the last year and a half. Tears started to pour down my face as a profound sadness filled my entire body. Even though Greg’s affair with my best friend had happened over a year ago, the heartbreaking images of them together were etched in my brain. It played over and over and over like a horror movie that I was being forced to sit and watch. I was still filled with so many questions and no real answers. 

            I missed Greg so much it hurt, while at the same time I hated him for what he had done to me and to our family. But I hated her more; she plotted, planned and pretended to be my best friend as she intentionally shattered my family into a million pieces. 

            How was I going to continue living this way? I was so tired in every way possible, I felt as if life was dragging me down a path I didn’t have the strength to endure any longer. I felt like a failure as a mother; not only was I unable to help my son who was so clearly struggling, I wasn’t present for my three daughters who desperately needed me. My life had once been a beautiful fairytale, and now it felt like an ugly living nightmare, and I was terrified to continue living in it. My dark, clouded mind whispered that my children would be better off without me, a new stepmother down the road would most certainly do a better job than I ever could; at least she would be a better example for my daughters. I loved Dawson so much, I just couldn’t figure out how to watch his daily struggles through life anymore. I wondered if he was as miserable as I was. How could he not be?

            I sped up as I approached the overpass. It was still dark out, the only illumination detectable emanated from the dim lights of empty stores in the distance, fuzzy through the thick layer of fog still blanketing the city. There were hardly any cars on the road this early in the morning, and I wondered if anyone would even notice when we sailed through the concrete barrier. 

          Would my car crashing to the pavement below make a sound loud enough for anyone to hear? Was the overpass high enough? Was I going fast enough? I sped up a little more as I gripped the wheel a little tighter. 

Sarah Swindell lives in the Austin area with her husband, Greg, a former Major League Baseball player and 2019 Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductee. Sarah is a commercial actress/model and has been working in the industry for over thirty years. She enjoys spending her free time with her four grown children and several grandchildren who reside in Texas as well. Sarah is an avid moviegoer, loves yoga and true-crime podcasts, and advocates for children and adults with autism and other disabilities. Her son was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of eighteen months and continues to touch peoples' hearts to this day.

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