Jodee Prouse is the Embattled Woman’s Champion. She

helps a woman recognize that they have the strength to

transcend family trauma, and the power to disengage from

codependency with those family members who are at the

heart of the drama.

Her mission is to help women recognize that love is the

reason NOT to engage, that taking care of oneself first is not

a betrayal or selfish. Making the hardest choices may seem

to be cruel or callous, but, in fact, are healthier for all parties.

Jodee spent more than 30 years seeking to protect a brother

ultimately lost in alcoholism, giving so much it nearly cost her

marriage and risked endangering her children’s mental

health.

The grand-daughter, daughter, stepdaughter, daughter-in-

law, sister-in- law, niece, great-niece, aunt, cousin, and sister

to alcoholics, she has tremendous empathy for anyone who

has gone through or lives with a family in constant emotional

crisis.

Her gripping and tragic story, told powerfully in The Sun is Gone: A Sister Lost in Secrets, Shame, and

Addiction and How I Broke Free, unfolds while she is also growing an enormously successful beauty products

business. Pulled in so many directions personally and professionally, she finally finds the strength to make the

painful and necessary decisions that restored her emotional equilibrium, self-respect and protected herself and

those closest to her. All along the way, while still loving her brother as he lived his own journey.

Committed to her new mission to empower women to find their strong inner core and

make healthy decisions amidst family dysfunction, chaos, and crisis, Jodee recently

sold her business and now serves as an advocate.