Sara Niles asked Sara Niles:

I am going to defy convention and ask myself a question: WHY did you write Torn From the Inside Out?

Sara Niles Torn From the Inside Out was born from a dark tragedy, years after I fled abuse from a homicidal husband. The trauma caused by the dysfunctional and toxic environment in which my five children spent part of their formative years, had poisoned our healing process. It was as though we could never fully escape the violent and abusive effects of Thomas Niles.

It was in the throes of a toxic episode by one of my children that I decided to use my writing talent to turn pain into passion, and to convert it into a tool of change. The process would become a life mission:

This happened around 1995, and it would take ten years before the first draft was in book form. I was single handedly raising five children who had become teenagers, by then, so had no free time. I was working a fulltime job, a part time business, and was going to night school in pursuit of my degree. I had to take my two week vacation to complete the first version of Torn From the Inside Out, nine years later, in 2004.
The book was sold door to door, presented at the state capitol to the governor and senators, wrote about locally, and some one started a petition to get the book on the Oprah show. One thousand signatures were obtained. The process continued, as life got in the way again.
The last edition (5) is up; but due to brutal algorithms and stiff competition, Torn is still struggling to get noticed.
I will continue.

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