In the sequel to "Laboring to Love an Abusive Mate," Nicholl McGuire finds her inspiration to love, live and trust again in "Laboring to Love Myself." After her abusive experience, readers will discover how obstacles, distractions, and hurdles made it a difficult journey for Nicholl to love herself again, but she pressed forward anyway. In Laboring to Love Myself, Nicholl is now living a simple life, working a 9 to 5 job, reading her Bible, conversing with God, and lonely. She prays and she is blessed with good company from people at least so she thinks. Nicholl shares some good, bad and ugly thoughts about love as it relates to family, friends, and even strangers. Singles, mothers, and couples who are in troubled relationships with self and others will appreciate this short, easy-to-read book free of complex metaphors and cliches about love.