Behind Locked Doors

Book excerpt: Jim Stovall, President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network, and a highly sought after best-selling author with 6 novels turned to movies, contributes as the author of the foreword, introducing Behind Locked Doors.Behind Locked Doors is the story of Charlie, a young woman with a life set up just as she planned. A beautiful home, a dream pastry shop and her high-school sweetheart as her fianc�. When an unfortunate, unpredictable accident causing a severe traumatic brain injury that changes in an instant not only her life but the lives of the family and friends who love her. Behind Locked Doors brings to light the taboo subject of what happens when someone suffers a severe traumatic brain injury taking her ability to talk, her memory, and ability to control emotions leaving someone who's personality is no longer recognizable. Being placed in a residential treatment facility, Charlie "wakes up" one day 2 � years post injury realizing she is in a place she doesn't know with strangers among her beginning to remember her former life, terrified and unable to express her thoughts. This is the journey of therapy behind locked doors of a residential facility, a place not everyone would like to talk about and hopes they will never have to look at. A story of Faith, Recovery, and Forgiveness