Through 23 essays highlighting their unique relationships with their daughter’s birth families, she found that it was the three ingredients of choice, trust, and love that helped her embrace an attitude of saying yes, even when it was scary. Once she discovered her voice and chose to live the life she desired, Susan trusted the process, and love showed up in wondrous ways.

Susan’s first and most powerful transformation came when she decided to lean into her first meaningful yes in her early thirties. It all started with a final conversation with her dying mother. With her permission to take a giant leap, Susan began to look at life with a new lens - a fearless perspective that empowered her to take the necessary risks and grow from the experience.