Breaking the Cycles of Pain Soul Secrets is a coming-of-age memoir about a promise that five-year-old Doris made to herself. Her oldest sister had been hurt. Driven to understand her dysfunctional family, Doris began to eavesdrop, question and investigate the world around her. Growing up "Colored' in the segregated South during the 1950s and the 1960s provided Doris with many opportunities to examine her family, the society and herself. When Doris writes well enough, she put the story about her fifth year on paper. Through the years, she rewrites the initial trauma and included more experiences. She transfers the growing story from raggedy writing pads to many diaries, journals and notebooks. Breaking the Cycles of Pain Soul Secrets is the first volume of an autobiographical trilogy about these discovery and recovery experiences. The memoir covers Doris' childhood until she was thrown out of the house at age twenty. Doris' life progression reveals that these childhood experiences became catalysts for soul enlightenment, spiritual transformation, and inner peace.