Inner Peace ... It Isn't Out There

The Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother. But what if thy father and thy mother didn't garner thy honor? WALK AWAY That's what this author did to end her ongoing war with her relentlessly critical mother and emotionally vacant father. "Jenna" (author), a descendant of the Grand Rebbe of Belz (Poland), grew up in a community of Orthodox Jews who self-righteously monitored each other to guaranty nobody broke with tradition. Damaged by her mother's manipulative guilt trips and verbal abuse, Jenna challenged her own hypocritical fakery when she married a man whose view of life was not skewed by a filter of religious indoctrination. With his support, Jenna discovered her own beliefs, and the further away from her family's emotional reach, the more Jenna accomplished creatively and professionally. With extensive public recognition and validation, after twenty years of estrangement, Jenna reconnected with her family. But, as her new relationship with her mother evolved, fate took a hand to give her story an unexpected turn.