From Girlhood to Womanhood

Shanae Watkins has reshaped the trajectory and ripped off each of the negative labels that society attempted to place on her. A failure. A reject. A violent criminal. All by the age of 11. While her painful but short past positioned her on a difficult, often solo course to navigate, the label that blared from headlines further pushed Shanae into a fight against odds that consumed her teen and young adult years. From one chaotic experience, being kidnapped, to another — a hit and an attempted run around the age of five - she evolved from a naturally curious, wise beyond her years, to a “runner”, leaving home for weeks at a time, unsure of her place anywhere so wanting to be everywhere. These choices, some hers and some made naively and more often predatorily for her, accelerated from little girl into a pre-teen who fell into misleading hands who took advantage of her desire to be free, that inevitably resulted in her freedom being taken away. Healing through hardship as a single mom, rejection and abuse from the world she desired to feel safe in, as a woman she is one hundred percent invested in healing from what she now considers valuable lessons every single day. First introduced internationally in the cable documentary, “Girlhood”, She has appeared on Oprah, Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show, and MSNBC, with regional appearances on panels speaking on the juvenile Justice experience, childhood and adult trauma. Today, Shanae is the proud, doting mom of three children; one son and two daughters. A business owner; Esthetician and provider of services catering to femininity and adult health and wellness. Featured as a cohost to a podcast created to help women find clarity in love, life and spiritual healing, and a published author to the 2022 electronic and hard copy long-awaited release, “From Girlhood to Womanhood”. She is a flower of feminine, dynamic light, with an infectious spirit that captivates hearts of all she meets. Despite her circumstances, and despite the inner voice that sometimes spoke in unison of naysayers, Shanae refused to answer to the name that those experiences and society tried to give her. , no matter the experience that society wanted to use to define her, 20 years later, she is the rose that bloomed in darkness, and uses her own light in a frank, unapologetic, good good girlfriend way, she shares tell her story, in her debut as an author in her book “From Girlhood to Womanhood”, through profoundly personal words.
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Author/Artist:Watkins, Shanae T
Binding: Paperback
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