By the age of sixteen Shireal’s father retired from the Army and her parents were divorced. She lived with her father who worked long shifts, sometimes overnight, leaving her in a big house by herself with nothing but her journals to keep her company. It was then that Shireal wrote her first screenplay. She began to write movies based on characters she wanted to play or lives she wished she lived. This is when she discovered that writing was her family, her confidant, her best friend, the one consistent thing in her life. It saved her from dark, lonely times. This gift of writing that God gave her would become more significant to her as she entered into adulthood and found herself in a relationship with a married man. That relationship exposed her to a life filled with anxiety, depression, self-hate, self-doubt and physical and mental abuse. She had totally lost sight of who she was and whom God called her to be. It wasn’t until she began writing her pain down that she started to seek God again and He used her gift to deliver her from that unhealthy relationship catapulting her into a new woman in Him whose trauma would be turned into a testimony of His mercy and His grace.