Are you in a pinch? Are you experiencing challenges that are bringing you to the brink of survival? Victoria Alai has taken her own struggle to survive, together with over thirty years of helping others do the same, to distill ideas, tips, and beliefs to take you from survival to a happy, abundant, and free place in your life, all with the hope that you can do it faster than she did. By pulling together essential aspects of a wide range of simple techniques for living and healing, she has promoted novel ideas, such as the "Dream Team," and "visible and invisible" needs, to guide you in the pursuit of your own personal "Upward Path." She lays out step-by-step instructions on how to move into a regulated adult, prosperous and thriving life, and while doing so, she takes us along her own journey of survival which makes us want to keep reading, follow the path, and thrive.