"This book is one you'll want to keep close, write notes in, and cherish for a lifetime." — Lexi Spadaro, M.S. Ed. in Early Literacy, Mrs. New York International 2024 Have you ever looked at your life and wondered if healing was truly possible, if peace, purpose, and joy could ever be yours again? You Are a Queen: Transform Your Pain into Power is a guidebook for women who are ready to break cycles of trauma, self-sabotage, and survival mode and step into the wholeness they were made for. Drawing from her own extraordinary transformation, author, speaker, and pageant queen Celia Anzalone Bowers invites you to walk beside her through the same process that helped her rise from addiction, abuse, and abandonment into freedom, purpose, and peace. This is not a memoir to simply read — it's a workbook for your heart. Every chapter offers practical questions, journal prompts, and life-tested tools that will help you uncover what's been holding you back and start your own journey of lasting healing. You Are a Queen will empower and inspire you to: Get honest with yourself and name your earliest traumas - Understand how self-destructive behaviors once helped you survive - Take ownership of your current situation and take action to heal - Confront your shadow self and embrace radical honesty - Discover modalities that restore your body, mind, and soul - Forgive yourself and others - Cultivate compassion — especially for yourself - Claim your "title," your story, your birthright - Rewrite your ending and wear your eternal crown with pride Whether you're recovering from heartbreak, addiction, loss, or simply searching for a new way to live, You Are a Queen offers hope, clarity, and practical guidance to help you move from pain to power — and finally see yourself the way God always has: worthy, whole, and crowned. "I challenge you to read this story slowly, thoroughly, and with an open heart. Don't just read the words on the page, but embrace them, feel them, and understand their meaning. In doing this, you're diving into an experience unlike any other. Remember that in order to heal from trauma, you must transform your pain into power." - Lexi Spadaro, M.S. ED. in Early Literacy, Mrs. New York International 2024 Dearest Queens, I pulled myself from the ashes of my self-destructive and trauma-filled life and created beauty, love, hope, and manifested a life beyond my wildest imagination. And now, I want every woman, including you, to know they can too. Take it from me: No matter what happens to you—you're strong, you are beautiful, you are worthy—You Are a Queen. This is my promise to you—you, too, can overcome anything you have faced or are facing in your lives, and you, too, can shout from the rooftops, "I am a Queen! I oversee my own destiny! I make my own rules! I keep my boundaries firm! I don't back down from difficult feelings or situations. I am no victim, but I have agency over my own life. I am worthy of all the love, joy, peace, success, and abundance life has to offer. I am the queen of my own heart!" That way, when you hear, "You are a Queen," you will only feel overwhelmed with joy for the woman you've fought so hard to become. You will not feel unworthy, you will confidently claim your rightful title, because you have learned from my book how to: * Get honest with yourself * Name and understand your earliest traumas * Realize that your self-destructive behaviors were borne out of a basic need to survive * Deal with your own dark nights of the soul * Take ownership of your current situation and take action to heal and recover * Confront your shadow self * Discover modalities that heal, and continue to encourage healing * Forgive yourselves and others * Recognize the importance of compassion—not only for others, but for yourself * Find your fire—your passion and purpose * Do the impossible * Walk the walk—live your life with integrity and intention * Claim your "title" i.e., your story, birthright, and then rewrite your own ending * Wear your eternal crown with pride Celia Anzalone Bowers is the Founder and President of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Lead with Love International. Through her nonprofit, she has facilitated therapeutic writing workshops in five states and counting since becoming established in August of 2023. During her workshop, she donates a copy of her first book (Celia's Eyes, 2011). She shares her raw, authentic story of childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, and ultimately the path that led her to where she is today. She is an entrepreneur in the mortgage industry, mother of five-year-old twin boys, wife to husband, Dr. Dane Bowers (Au. D.), and is a nationally ranked triathlete. She is also the host of her podcast, Love Waits for You, serves on the board for CASA, and holds a Bachelor of Science from Bryan College, while she lives and works in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Her latest book, You Are a Queen: Transform Your Pain into Power is available to purchase!