The Little Girl Inside Owning My Role in My Own Pain:

 Am Still A Rose, LLC, was created in January 2015 with the hopes of being an inspirational site where women of all walks of life, men too, can learn to appreciate their lives in spite of all the challenges they have been faced to overcome. Tonya

Barbee, the founder, is a devoted mother of four children, grandmother to seven, a project manager/administrator for the past thirty years, and a published author.She recently finished her first book, “The Little Girl Inside Owning My Role in My

Own Pain.”

She too, has faced challenges. Since a little girl, she wanted the perfect life. Tonya thought the fairy tale life was the way of the future. She grew up in a middle class family in N.C. and always looked at life through a fairy tail vision. It was her dream

and that’s how she went through life. She thought everyone loved her and she loved and trusted everyone. She assumed she would marry the man of her dreams and he would love her forever and ever. Tonya first married when she was only 17 years old. She went looking over-and-over again for that perfect marriage and to no avail.