Are your negative experiences hitching a ride on your shoulders and affecting every area of your life? What would your life look like if you no longer carried your burdens and gave up personal control of your future? In Circling Hope, author Jena Boles shares the story of her early destructive life-how she eventually lightened her load, and how she transformed her perspective and her life.

In this inspirational narrative, Boles tells about the negative experiences that shaped the beginning of her life-her parents' divorce when she was five, her mother's death from cancer when...