The Sitting Swing

By Irene Watson

In this inspiring story of reconciliation, acceptance and sweet release, we meet a woman at the place in her life where she can chose either to grow or to die. Watson writes with passion, insight, relentless honesty and unusual self-awareness . . . as easily identifiable to a male reader as a female.

Allen Chip Hannay, English Instructor, St. Philip's College, San Antonio, TX

Irene Watson has written a psychologically savvy memoir about her childhood in a two room shack in rural Canada with a controlling, demanding mother, an emotionally absent father, and the affect of the death of her infant brother before she was born. With insight and intelligence she takes the reader through her step-by-step experience of resistance and revelation at a 28-day therapeutic treatment center. Told with courage and candor in an intimate, alive voice she reveals her discovery of a Higher Power and a new pathway for marriage and emotional freedom.

Babette Hughes, author of Lost and Found

A story of two parallel worlds -- the fractured transition of Ukrainian speaking immigrants moving west superimposed on the pain of a small, confused girl seeking transformation, a journey from an angry mother admonishing her not to sing to a woman freeing herself to sing her life.

Stan Biderman, author of Everything Changes

Brave and inspiring, full of heartbreak and hope, an astoundingly honest account of a commonly overlooked addiction. Like me, you may recognize yourself on practically every page!

Barbara Robinette Moss, author of Change Me into Zeus's Daughter and Fierce

A soul-searching look at facing codependency and beginning the recovery process. Irene Watson's insightful recounting of her journey from an overprotected childhood to facing her inner demons at a treatment center provide hope and help.

Kay Marie Porterfield, author of Straight Talk about PTSD: Living with the Aftermath of Stress, Sleeping with Dionysus: Women, Addiction and Ecstasy, and Coping With Codependency

The truths Irene Watson shares are truths for us all.

Susan L. Franzen, Performance & Accountability Specialist, author of 101 Things to Do From Bed

ISBN:1-891386-49-2, 154 pgs, $14.95