Book excerpt: We lose people we love; we love people who lose us. We get hurt and we hurt. We make mistakes. We change, we transform. We are humans, we are the dancers of life. I decided to write this book as raw and as honestly as possible. I have chosen the stories that have impacted my life the most; both the ups and the downs. They include the battles that I have won and the ones that I have lost but have survived to come out on the other side. I start with my childhood in El Salvador, hiding my feelings and feeling left behind. Then the wonder of moving to NY where I was able to experience true family love. Like so many things it didn't last and I grew up enough to move to CA to try to run away from my pain. I share my struggles, that many of you may have had as well, with addictions and other problems. Struggles that made me grow as an individual. I share my experience being a stripper and how I was able to come out of it into my spiritual awakening. I found my passion and transformed my darkness into light. While writing this book my only intention was to heal myself. I wanted to let go of what was holding me back from the life I imagined. In my process of healing, I realized that what I had gone through was something more universal, so the book ended up also becoming a guide for the reader - an opportunity to start a journey of self-awareness using the activities in each chapter. Perhaps this is the book for you if you are ready to make the changes to start living outside of pain and find the rest of your life. For me, I had to learn to forgive and love myself exactly the way I exist! I write in the past, present and future. Time doesn't exist in the pages of this book. The deeper you get in the book the more magic you may find... because it is there inside of you waiting to be discovered.------------------------ About the Author: Katy Mendoza was born in El Salvador, San Salvador 10/24/1994. She was raised in Tappan, NY until she was 20 years old, where she learned to speak English and Italian before she moved to California. Here the real adventure started with jobs ranging from bussing tables and working in a shoe store to being a fitness instructor and exotic dancer. She had to lose herself in order to find herself. At the age of 23, she took charge of her life and became an Entrepreneur and CEO of Happy Healthy World. She shares her life challenges and Spiritual Awakening to motivate others with Intention to awaken them to their Maximum Potential.