Bright Side With Tekneshia

Jodee Prouse is the Embattled Woman’s Champion. She helps a woman recognize that they have the strength to transcend family trauma, and the power to disengage from codependency with those family members who are at the heart of the drama. Her mission is to help women recognize that love is the reason NOT to engage, that taking care of oneself first is not a betrayal or selfish. Making the hardest choices may seem to be cruel or callous, but, in fact, are healthier for all parties. Jodee spent more than 30 years seeking to protect a brother ultimately lost in alcoholism, giving so much it nearly cost her marriage and risked endangering her children’s mental health. The grand-daughter, daughter, stepdaughter, daughter-in- law, sister-in- law, niece, great-niece, aunt, cousin, and sister to alcoholics, she has tremendous empathy for anyone who has gone through or lives with a family in constant emotional crisis. Her gripping and tragic story, told powerfully in The Sun is Gone: A Sister Lost in