Have you ever felt as if you cannot trust people because of folks not keeping their word? When it is time to wind down your day and you are alone at home, do you ever sit in silence and just cry? Do you struggle with fulfilling your dreams because you have observed others doing something similar? Then you have opened the right book. Many of us have grown up in households where we experienced different situations. Where absence, depression, unforgiveness and comparison were often not discussed. Where we had to suppress what we were dealing with and put on a mask around others, while hurting deep inside. I pray this will help you remove the mask and begin your mental health journey to healing. 
           
I have combined over 25-plus years of experience in the human service and management fields, holding positions as a Child Protection Social Worker, Therapist, Therapeutic Mentor and Direct Care Staff. I have also collaborated with state-funded programs to improve the quality of life of clients by teaching independence skills, ways to de-escalate emotional situation therapeutic support and ongoing case management evaluations for children and families. This book was written to help you realize you are not alone and it is okay to seek a therapist to help you process the different areas of your life that you have left covered. Allow me to help you Remove the Mask so you can begin your healing journey.

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Sherard W. L. Johnson MSW, LCSW