Deborah Johnson is a writer and holistic practitioner with background in yoga, tai chi, massage therapy, and nutrition. She also holds a degree in interior design, and promotes "green" design for both health maintenance, and sustainability. Determined to find answers that work, Deborah painstakingly interviewed parents, teachers, educators, prosecutors, counselors, and students to create this uplifting, common sense manual on self-love and self-mastery.

Deborah had to overcome many hardships of her youth, including an attempted rape at gunpoint, and gangland murders within her family. She teaches the reader how to stay grounded in the face of severe adversity and come through it whole, happy, and healthy.