“HOPE Beyond Trauma…a mother’s journey†takes you behind closed doors of Janie Smith’s family after their teenage daughter, Tanya is involved in a fatal automobile accident in 1989. She dies in the Life Flight helicopter and is revived only to face an even greater life challenge.Experience a mother’s agony and fears as Janie watches her daughter escape death’s door to awaken to the realization that Tanya sustained severe brain injuries. Doctors are unable to give a definite prognosis and tell them that she may need to live in a nursing home for the rest of her life.Janie bravely travels into the unknown along with her husband, a career soldier in the U.S. Army and their two teenage sons. Read as she watches her daughter struggles to put back together the shattered pieces of her memory. As Tanya’s frustrations mount, intense anger and violent episodes surface out of nowhere. Soon she and her family feel like they are living in a war zone. Janie fights to keep her family together while everything around her, including herself, is falling apart.This incredible story is about an ordinary mother and family that faced extraordinary challenges. Within these pages, Janie shares with the reader the lessons she learned along her journey with candor and honesty. She is open about her mistakes, failures and how she had to pick herself up out of the ashes and start anew. This is a terrifying, amazing and triumphant life journey and one you do not want to miss.Today, Janie’s passion is to help others along their own personal journey. She founded HOPE Beyond Trauma and wrote “…a mother’s journey,†to coach and mentor anyone who wants to move forward beyond trauma in their own lives.
