Find Beauty Within Darkness

At age fourteen, Giselle McNab was on her own. Grieving the loss of her childhood, Giselle wrestled with the events of the past and the bleak promise of her future. Where is there to go when you feel like you’ve hit rock bottom?

In this intense and emotional retelling of events in her life, Giselle weaves an incredible story of triumph and overcoming every odd stacked against her. She explores the family dynamics, financial struggles, and emotional trauma that perpetuated a cycle of abuse in her childhood and even into her adolescence. Moving through her mother’s history in New York City, and then being passed around to different relatives, Giselle chronicles the feelings of abandonment and isolation she experienced as a child.

Find Beauty Within Darkness is the harrowing story of a survivor. A woman who has not only survived but is now thriving. Giselle compels each of us who have experienced trauma to try things a different way—to push past the pain to finally reveal the beauty within us all.