Becky Thayne Markosian is co-owner of Thayne Realty, where she was a top real estate agent for seven years. She lives with her husband in Salt Lake City with her husband. They have three sons, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson. This book is her story.

At nineteen, she had a three-year battle with manic depression/bi-polar disease, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia.

For thirty-one years she has been well, living a rewarding life as an artist of stained glass, recently as a successful real estate agent, and now as a full-time homemaker enjoying art classes, playing the piano for her church, sports, and being involved with family and friends. One day a week she is a volunteer therapist with a five-year-old autistic boy.

A first-time author, Becky Markosian wanted to write this book to help others who suffer from the same pain she knew and moved past. She has spoken to many organizations and on radio and television about Hope and Recovery.



Emma Lou Warner Thayne, her mother, has coached college tennis, is an honored speaker, teacher, author of fourteen books, a much anthologized poet and writer living in Salt Lake City with her husband of fifty-one years. She has told stories to audiences world wide as well as to her five daughters and nineteen grandchildren. She is listed in Contemporary Authors and A Directory of American Poets and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree by the University of Utah. Some of her other books are Never Past the Gate, a novel, Things Happen, Poems of Survival, and All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir, essays on diversity and understanding with Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.