As “New Year, New You” stories take shape, author and TEDx speaker Shannan Kym offers a refreshingly authentic perspective on recovery and reinvention. In Find The Answers Within You: Ten Pathways Toward Self-Discovery, Shannon draws on her six years of sobriety, 80-pound weight loss, escape from an abusive marriage, and journey toward becoming a bodybuilder and motivational speaker to share a framework for lasting change rooted in lived experience.   Please refer to the press release below for additional information, and let me know if you would be interested in speaking with Shannan or seeing a review copy of the book. Watch the book trailer here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M_AEgYAH7QNH2I7qF0z_wiwLSrz_0Csy/view.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   From Addiction and Trauma to Empowerment: New Book Reveals 10 Pathways for Real, Lasting Change   NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2025 — Shannan Kym grew up in a family where addiction, violence, and extreme dysfunction were normalized. Robbed of her childhood, she was forced to grow up at a very young age. For years, she abused her body, gained excessive weight, and let herself be taken advantage of by toxic people, including the narcissist she married. She experienced career highs and lows and suffered the loss of a child. Eventually, Kym hit rock bottom, but on August 17, 2019, everything changed. That day, she made up her mind to stop letting addiction control her life. She also decided to get real, let go of her past hurts, embrace forgiveness, and focus on living each day with gratitude, purpose, light, and love.   In her new book, Find The Answers Within You: Ten Pathways Toward Self-Discovery, Kym reveals her tragedies and triumphs, and shares 10 pathways for readers to be inspired to live by.   In Part I, Kym tells her story of trauma and addiction. Part II follows her healing journey. In Part III, she presents readers with a guide to achieving change and discovering their own life’s purpose: “Ten Pathways to Rise Above Your Past and Live a Harmonious Life.” Filled with spiritual insights and practical lessons, the pathways include:   Awakening. Starting with a lightbulb moment, awakening involves clearly seeing all the trauma in your own life, understanding how it triggered your addiction, and acknowledging that you have the power to break free. Responsibility. Being responsible requires the courage to face yourself, rather than continue living in denial or blaming others, and take control of the life you want to live and the person you want to be. Forgiveness. Forgiving others is only part of this pathway. You also need to forgive yourself for tolerating, enabling, and perpetuating abuse. Wanting. What do you really want for yourself and your life moving forward? Finding the answers begins with daring to ask yourself that question.   Find The Answers Within You: Ten Pathways Toward Self-Discovery Publisher: Balboa Press Release Date: January 20, 2026 ISBN: 979-8765262719 Available from https://www.amazon.com/Find-Answers-Within-You-Self-Discovery/dp/B0FRNHCQFY