The Tire Swing: A Memoir about Survival

As a child, Nancy Jasin Ensley always felt safe and confident when she was surrounded by the old tire swing in her grandmother's yard. It was a refuge from a turbulent childhood marked by a stormy relationship with her father. It was a place to soar and twist and turn and, for a moment, forget life's challenges. In this memoir, she narrates the high and lows and twists and turns of her long and fruitful life.

The Tire Swing chronicles Ensley's metamorphosis from a frightened and insecure child to an exciting career in the healthcare field, becoming a mother and grandmother, a wife, sister, and a trusted friend along the way. She tells of her experiences of abuse, failed relationships, addiction, loss, suicide, compulsion, and near-death experience-and how that path ended with recovery and success.

This memoir not only provides an introspective look at Ensley's life, its trials, and its rewards; it also shows how the experiences and the relationships formed throughout impacted her journey.