Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 771

Tonight's special guest is Marala Scott from Columbus, Ohio, abuse survivor and activist. She's a Best–selling, Award-winning Author, Motivational Speaker, and Ghostwriter who spends her time Teaching to Forgive, Inspiring to Live. Her efforts earned her the unique honor of being named an "Oprah Winfrey's Ambassador of Hope" recipient, in addition to The Sunny 95's "20 Outstanding Women You Should Know". Marala speaks from unimaginable experiences. She shares them with considerable passion, which translates into heartfelt truth. Her life-altering memoir, In Our House: Perception vs. Reality tells of her horrific childhood. Surrounded by Inspiration, shares her journey of healing through faith, personal growth and understanding relationships. Her passionate and honest words will challenge you to become a better, stronger, more passionate version of you! A childhood of abuse almost kept Marala Scott from a life happiness...until she discovered how to use her story to help others. She writes, "Through the process of forgiveness [of her abusive father], I realized how many years I lost having allowed the abusive memories and flashbacks to run my life. I decided to write In Our House, Perception vs. Reality with my husband, Tre' Parker. I take the readers through my life story and the unimaginable, descriptive, abusive episodes where they could feel the beatings as if they were withstanding them. I wanted readers to understand the destruction of domestic violence and child abuse.