Moving from Bitterness to Betterment" is a true story about a Puerto Rican-American struggles to overcome abuse (sexual, verbal, and physical) from childhood to adulthood. It challenges parents to take another look at caregivers. It raises questions about the motive of friendship and love. It reveals betrayal, hurt, and pain inflected upon a girl child by those whom she loved and revered. Reading this book will encourage you that life's valleys are not forever. You too can find strength and courage to move beyond the shackles of bitterness into your destiny of betterment. Minister Evelyn Johnson helps her readers to understand that while others may have shaped your past; you have the power to shape your future.