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Audrey Phillips

“Audrey Sue Phillips was born on February 18, 1956, on a cold, stormy night in Cripple Creek, Kentucky, in her maternal grandmother’s home. She grew up in Kokomo, Indiana from a young age, where her life was shaped by both cherished memories and childhood trauma experiences that deeply influence her writing. 

Audrey writes with honesty, faith, and compassion about trauma, healing, forgiveness, and resilience. Through stories of her family, personal struggles, and life journey, she offers hope to those who have experienced pain and encourages readers to move forward with grace. 

She worked as an Emergency, Intensive Care, and Case Management Nurse, earned her Licensed Practical Nurse credentials, and continued learning throughout her career. A small business owner, world traveler, and survivor of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis for over 40 years, Audrey lives a life of service feeding the homeless, supporting unwed mothers, and serving her church community. 

Now retired and living on a bay in Florida with her service dog Rocky, Audrey continues to write and prepare future publications that inspire healing and faith.”

About The Book

If You Can Survive Your Parents, You Have Half a Chance

The book, entitled “If You Can Survive Your Parents, You Have Half a Chance,” is a complex blend of personal experience and the rich heritage of Appalachian culture. Using the context of family conflicts, love, and survival, the author looks back on life in eastern Kentucky, exploring the subjects of loss and the significance of chosen relationships. The book glorifies the richness of the heritage and human connection and provides the reader with a heart-rending message about the strength that can be found in the family bonds, both biological and adopted.
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If You Can Survive Your Parents, You Have Half a Chance

Learn about the intense experience of family and strength in If You Can Survive Your Parents, You Have Half a Chance. In the gorgeous, Appalachian life, where blood is thicker than thief, and form makes character, plunge. Get to read touching stories that pay tribute to tradition and provoke thought. You have to celebrate the power of chosen family with us. Your next great read is waiting.

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Give Audrey half a chance
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2026
Format: Hardcover

Audrey Phillips is a true survivor. She wrote this book to help others. She is caring, loving, compassionate, trustworthy. She helped herself but wants to help other people. Read her book and she would be glad to answer questions or give you a helping hand.

I am a native of Kentucky, and reading
this book was like returning home. The
author defines the spirit of our
struggles and victories in a real way
with sincerity and elegance. Both
chapters move through vivid imagery
and touching narratives that help us
see the power of community and the
family we choose. The book is a must-
read for anybody who would like to
know the sophistication of our culture.

The book is a well-crafted and insightful examination of family life that goes beyond the blood. The rich descriptions of life in the Appalachian region and the hardships that his ancestors had to go through are very striking. The book has not only contributed to my knowledge in the resilience field but also given me the urge to think about my family experience on my own through the hardship.

**Review: *If You Can Survive Your Parents, You Have Half a Chance* by Audrey Phillips** 

This book feels like it was written by someone who’s actually lived through some things, not someone looking back from a safe distance. *If You Can Survive Your Parents, You Have Half a Chance* is honest in a way that doesn’t try to impress you or clean things up for comfort. Audrey Phillips just tells it how it was. 



What I appreciated most is that she doesn’t act like her childhood made her special or stronger than everyone else. It just made things harder. The book doesn’t beg for sympathy, and it doesn’t turn pain into a big inspirational speech either. It’s more like someone sitting across from you, telling you the truth about what growing up was really like and what it costs to carry that into adulthood. 



The book is short, which works. Phillips doesn’t drag things out or overexplain. She talks about the moments that mattered and lets them stand on their own. If you grew up in a rough home, a lot of this will feel familiar — not always in a comfortable way, but in a way that feels real. 



What sticks with you is the idea that surviving your parents doesn’t mean you’re “fixed” or healed forever. It just means you’ve earned a chance to try to do better than what you were handed. Phillips doesn’t pretend life suddenly gets easy. She shows that moving forward is about keeping at it, even when the past still shows up. 



This isn’t a feel-good book, but it’s not hopeless either. It’s for people who didn’t start out with much, emotionally or otherwise, and still had to figure out how to make a life from there. If you’ve ever felt like you had to grow up too fast or learn things the hard way, this book will hit close to home.