Moana: The Story of One Woman’s Journey Back to Self

The Sacral #1

by Dawn Bates

Her breathing became shallow and laboured and the paramedics were talking about what was happening… “milligrams of this, heart rate dropping, breathing erratic… need to get there quick” all of it sounding as though she was back underwater where she belonged.
She imagined herself floating, sun on her face, bobbing along on the crest of the waves miles out to sea.
He said he loved her. Everything seemed perfect. She wanted to believe it. Apparently, she’d find it hard to have someone else love her. One drunken night, he nearly killed her. In three years, she was spiked and raped twice, on nights out with him. Toxic narcissistic love, and this is just the beginning.
Moana is the first of nine true stories written as fiction, because sometimes you just can’t make this shit up.

186 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 22, 2020

About the author

Dawn Bates is an award winning, international bestselling author of 21 books on five continents. She specialises in developing authorities who wish to give a voice to the voiceless, working with them to create brand expansion strategies through activism, authorship and business.

With a cheeky sense of humour, a love of deep ocean sailing, Dawn dances though life whilst specialising in social justice and human rights, which underpin everything she does. Her study with the University of Oxford where she’s working towards her PhD combined with her impressive world travels, ensures her books are powerful.

Dawn brings together the multi-faceted aspects of the world we live in, delivering mic dropping inspiration, motivation and awakening. Her work captures life around the world in all its rawness.