Carey Sipp, the dynamic author of The TurnAround Mom, is an addiction and abuse survivor and parenting education advocate. To stop the heartbreaking cycles of addiction and abuse destroying our families, she believes Americans must break our collective addiction to what she calls toxic intensity, "the mother of all addictions."

A divorced single mom for 11 years, Carey was married in 2005 and now has three adult stepchildren in addition to her teenage son and daughter.