I Got It From Here: A Memoir of Awakening to the Power Within

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Growing up in an Italian American family in Queens, New York, in the 70s, Francesca Miracola was trained from an early age to keep up appearances at all costsbut behind closed doors, her parents toxic marriage served as a blueprint for dysfunction. So when she met Jason Axcel at a bar as a twentysomething, she ignored all the red flagsand there were plenty of themand dove right in, normalizing his emotional and physical abuse just like shed learned to do. She even married and had two children with him. But something in her clicked one night when Jason strolled out the door after a vicious fight that left her degraded on the floor, and she decided she was done.

Except Jason wouldnt let her go.

Even after they finally divorced and Francesca fell in love with someone else, her ex-husband was keen enough to recognize that she was the same broken girl hed met a decade earlier, and he exploited that fact at every turn. He called the cops to her home with bogus claims; he bombarded her with provoking emails and texts; he stalked her every move; and, worst of all, he used their little boys as pawns in his campaign. Then he went for the jugular and sued her for custody. But Francesca was stronger than hed given her credit for.

Raw and illuminating, I Got It from Here is one womans story of saving herself and her children from the grips of a sociopath posing as a family manand from the inherited trauma passed down by her own family of birthwhile learning to trust in the inner voice thats been trying to guide her all along.

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The authors clear, straightforward prose effectively captures her complex psychological state. . .Miracola does a particularly good job of contextualizing the relationship within a larger culture of neglect and misogyny. The end result is as engaging as it is disturbing. A thoughtful and affecting memoir of marriage and divorce.
Kirkus Reviews

Miracola, a talented writer, has the ability to pull readers into her story from the first page, with perfect pacing and evocative, inviting prose. . . . Resilience and hope distinguish this wrenching memoir of ending an abusive marriage.
BookLife

I Got It from Here is an inspiring memoir about overcoming an upbringing in a dysfunctional family, social conditioning, corruption, and a sociopathic ex-husband to claw ones way to happiness.
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Francesca Miracola is an Italian American from Queens, NY, currently living on Long Island, but in her mind shes a free-spirited wanderer. She wants to travel the world, but shes afraid to fly, although a glass of wine gets her through most flights. Francescas mostly an introvert who greatly prefers deep, meaningful conversations to surface small talk. She keeps her circle small, and shes still debating if thats a good or bad thing. Shes a breast cancer survivor, but she rarely defines herself as oneprobably because she feels like shes been surviving something most of her life. Shes funny; at least, she makes herself laugh. Francesca graduated cum laude from New York University and worked in financial services for twenty-five years, even though she wanted to be a therapist. Thats probably because she needed a therapist. Francesca finally wound up on her true path as a student and teacher of A Course in Miracles, author, life coach, and founder of Protagonist Within LLC. Francesca is a wife, a best friend, and above all, a mother. She lives on Long Island, NY.