Title: Love Wins: Unveiling Heart and Mind
Author: H. Palmer
Publisher: AuthorHouseUK
ISBN: 1546297146
Pages: 242
Genre: Religion
Reviewed by: Liz Konkel

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Love Wins: Unveiling Heart and Mind is a story told from the heart as H. Palmer shares her real experience as a single parent of an autistic son. She details the struggles she faced as her son progressed from a toddler to a teenager with details focused on behavior, adjusting to changes, helping him at home, and his experiences at school.

Throughout Love Wins, she reveals her ups and downs while educating others so to create an understanding about autism. This is also a book of faith with Palmer sharing lessons about love conquering all and maintaining hope through detailed moments throughout her life and how these experiences involved keeping her faith in God.

Love Wins: Unveiling Heart and Mind is a personal book as it details real experiences Palmer went through and takes an up-close look at her emotional journey. Palmer includes challenges such as moving to England, her son becoming a teenager, and her role as a single mom. Her open honesty will help others in similar situations because they will be able to relate to the lower periods she went through and how she kept moving forward. Her tone is genuine which makes it easy to form a connection with her and to pay attention to the advice she offers. She opens up about her experiences when she was in an abusive relationship and she discovered her son had autism during a time when it was less understood, and the challenges that came with trying to help him. She doesn’t sugar-coat anything – instead fully unveiling the hardships and doesn’t shy away from detailing every struggle and stressful moment.

Palmer is thorough with details about autism by breaking down a scientific understanding and resources which support her struggle to understand what autism is and how this would affect her son’s life as he grew older. Palmer has a well-organized style with the history provided and a breakdown of symptoms often associated with autism broken into sections. Love Wins covers background on ADHD, OCD, Anxiety, Eating Disorder, and various health concerns such as allergies, sleep apnea, keratosis pilaris, and asthma. All of the information Palmer provides is perfect for parents who are working to have a better understanding of autism and struggling to help their child. Throughout, Palmer also details how she held onto her faith through various hardships and challenges, detailing her lower periods and how she regained a stronger devotion to God. She uses biblical references to support the place love should have in her life and in society.

At the heart of the book is an emotional read about love and kindness which Palmer uses to show how even in the toughest moments, love is still the ultimate outcome one should strive for and to seek. The ultimate goal of Love Wins is to use her experiences to help others in similar situations so they can see that they’re not alone and that they too can maintain hope for their futures by finding love in even the toughest times and holding onto faith.

Palmer’s honesty and thorough research provided makes Love Wins a great read for those facing a struggle in their lives who have reached a block in the road, and for the parents who are struggling to help their autistic child is in need of hope.