Gloria Ewing Lockhart intimately chronicles the road to forgiveness in her memoir, Unmasking: A Woman’s Journey. Her widespread roots began in the segregated South and are revealed as she examines how to triumphantly free herself of confining roles and overcome societal pigeonholes. Her upbringing was scarred by divorce, abandonment, adoption, molestation, and bullying. Through a very personal journey of memory and miles, she sheds her negative mantras along with a multitude of obstacles threatening her life and livelihood. Unmasking: A Woman’s Journey candidly takes the reader from rural beginnings to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, from dark secrets to the spotlight of community service, to accolades and accomplishments never imaged by Lockhart or her family. Gloria shares a way to break one’s personal manacles and rise to their full potential. Her faith, authenticity, and candor propel her to tell her story for the benefit of all of us. Unmasking: A Woman’s Journey is a blueprint for people seeking to transform their lives and become the champions of their own story.