In this powerfully written book, Dowd expresses and exposes her very intimate and raw emotions throughout a journey that began with her mother's sudden death. Become hooked into the story within this book's pages as she reveals and explores how being motherless affected her thoughts and emotions in various personal aspects of her life, like personal relationships. She also details many of the methods she utilized to help bring about her own healing, including counseling and feeling the love of her dog. She truly hopes this book will bring some sense of healing to its readers. So, her written voice speaks to the reader as though they were close friends with whom she shares her innermost self.