Recovery is the road back to a childhood you never had ñ a chance to heal the child within. Claudia Black has written an inspiring collection of healing messages that offer comfort and encouragement, serenity, and hope to anyone who has survived a painful childhood or traumatic event.

Touching on such issues of trust, denial, self-acceptance, forgiveness, and faith, each message is illuminated by a vibrant, evocative painting by renowned artist Laurie Zagon, an expert in color therapy.

Paired with Claudia's transformative insights, these paintings provide a moment for daily reflection, allowing the deeper truth of the words on the page to take root in the reader's consciousness.

A beautiful gift for yourself and others, this book will help you open the window and let in the light that will help you find inner strength, wisdom and serenity.

Take a look inside the book by clicking on Inside It's Never Too Late

Some inspirations and artwork from the book

Listen to your inner child not with criticism but with openness.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

May the child in your heart remain forever free.

You are very special. You may never have had the opportunity to believe in your specialness. You may believe in it today.

Readers Comments

I am writing to you to say thank you so much for your book. I am the director of the GreenHouse program, a vocational and therapeutic horticulture training program on Rikers Island, a New York City jail. Most of my students battle with substance abuse and alcohol addiction, and most of them grew up with one or both parents with an addiction. Aside from the horticulture aspect, my two correction officers and I do discharge planning with the students and talk a lot about their hurt and healing. Your book is a true inspration and regular part in our sessions and sometimes a person seems to need it so much that we let them take it with them as they get released. I think that by now I handed out at least 20 of your books to my students to keep. One young man took a walk in the garden with it, and when he didn't reappear for a long time, we found him sitting in a native woodland area with the book, in tears and being able for the first time to talk about his childhood. When it was time to return to the dorm, he held that book like a treasure, brushing off the mild jokes of his fellow inmates. That is just one example of many.

The simple but powerful messages reach exactly to the heart and help start healing and it has become an established part of my program. Thank you very much. This helps!

Hilda K.