Inspirational speaker Prolific author Carolyn Brooks addresses a serious issue she has witnessed as she ministers at women’s conferences and in churches through her latest book Breaking The Silent Addiction: Why Women Settle for a Frog When a Prince Is Coming.

“Much of what I suffered before I came through to spiritual wholeness was the result of looking for love and fulfilment in the wrong places,” explained Brooks.

“It’s a cycle I see played out in the lives of all too many women – even Christians. The truths that I share in Breaking the Silent Addiction are foundational to shattering this stronghold once and for all.”

Brook’s own story of victory began nearly 25 years ago when she re-connected with the simple faith in God that she had first discovered as a little girl. “I had given my heart to Christ when I was nine years old,” recalled Brooks. “But when I got to college I made some choices that would eventually lead me to the pit of despair. It was only when I came to the end of myself, and cried out to God for His mercy, that my life turned around.”

Marrying in her freshman year of college, Brooks ultimately found herself the victim of emotional and physical abuse -- and divorce. While she tried to fill the void in her life through her career, Brooks recalls that she could not shake the loneliness, depression, and despair that had attached to her. “I sought help through doctors and psychiatrists, but their
solution was medication, and that just added to my problems,” she explained.

In 1982, at the depths of despair and contemplating suicide, Brooks began recalling the simple faith of her childhood and the sermons her father, a minister, had preached about the love of Jesus, eternal life, and being born again.

“I know now that this was God’s Holy Spirit calling me back to my heavenly Father,” said Brooks. At that moment, though, I only knew enough to simply
cry out, ‘Oh God, please help me!’”

Instantaneously, miraculously, Brooks experienced a divine touch of God’s intervention. “My mind began to clear, and for the first time I experienced the joy, peace, purpose, and real meaning to life that I had been searching for.”

Brooks is gearing up to share that transforming power worldwide through the release of Breaking the Silent Addiction. “I believe the message in this book is going to set many women – and their families – free to be all
that God intended them to be,” she said. “I’m looking forward to seeing that happen.”