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Telling The Truth: The Cost of Silence
 
TELLING THE TRUTH: THE COST OF SILENCEShannan CousinPaperbackSilence did not protect her. It cost her. In Telling the Truth: The Cost of Silence, Shannan Cousin continues the story she was not yet finished telling. What looked like love, commitment, and another chance slowly became a cycle of alcohol, emotional abuse, domestic violence, confusion, leaving, returning, and simply trying to survive from one day to the next. But this story is about more than what happened to her. It is about what she carried because of it. Depression. Anxiety. PTSD. Feeling lost. Feeling empty. Memory gaps. Moving through life on autopilot while still being a mother, working, paying bills, and handling whatever came next. Shannan does not clean up the difficult parts or pretend to remember what she cannot. She tells the truth as she remembers it, including the moments that remain painfully clear and the pieces that have become a blur. The Cost of Silence gives a voice to the things that can happen internally when a woman keeps functioning while quietly falling apart. For every woman who has ever wondered, Why did she stay? Why did she go back? Why didn’t she just leave? Sometimes the answer is more complicated than it looks from the outside. This is what silence cost her.
Telling The Truth: Peeling Back the Layers
 
TELLING THE TRUTH: PEELING BACK THE LAYERSShannan CousinPaperbackShe thought it was love. What started with late night conversations, lingering looks, apartment stair talks, and undeniable chemistry slowly turned into something darker. What looked good on the outside became a cycle of emotional pain, manipulation, betrayal, and survival behind closed doors. In Telling The Truth: Peeling Back The Layers, Shannan Cousin takes readers into a raw and deeply personal story about love, trauma, loyalty, motherhood, and what happens when you keep calling something love long after it starts breaking you. From red cups, Black & Mild smoke, and nights that felt like forever… to broken trust, emotional abuse, cheating, and slowly losing herself piece by piece, every chapter peels back another layer of the truth. This ain’t a fairytale. This is the part people don’t talk about. The toxic cycles. The silence. The pretending. The smiling through pain while falling apart behind closed doors. Honest, emotional, gritty, and unapologetically real, this story pulls back the mask on what survival can really look like when love and pain start feeling the same. And this is only the beginning.
I Wore A Mask
 
I Wore A Mask: A story of survival, truth, and the masks we wearShannan CousinPaperbackI wore a mask so well… no one ever asked if I was okay. Behind the smile was pain I learned to hide. Behind closed doors was a life I prayed to escape. This is not just my story… This is for every woman who stayed too long, loved too hard, and lost herself trying to survive. One day… I chose me. And everything changed. You are not alone. There is a way out. About the Author Shannan Cousin is a survivor, author, and advocate who uses her voice to bring awareness, healing, and truth to the realities of domestic violence. She is committed to helping others break free, rebuild, and rediscover their power.