It’s All Good is Kristin Stattel’s riveting story of how she survived and over came her “troubled teen” years. Beginning with her mother’s heartrending death from ovarian cancer when Kristin was only a mere age of fourteen years old, bringing about the hostilities between her and her father that arose to a hellish level. Inevitably to get sucked into the “black hole of adolescence,” Kristin struggled not only with her father, but also with school, her behavior, and her mental health.  

Taking you through her next journey from the early June 2004 morning, where she was “recklessly transported” to a wilderness Program in North Carolina, then transferred to a “therapeutic boarding school” in Massachusetts, following being admitted to a level 4 lockdown “more structured therapeutic environment” in Tennessee where the level of abuse, malpractice, and unregulated treatment was at an unbelievable amount, and then finally to her final program in Texas.

Upon her return to New Jersey following these shocking and in some cases horrific occurrences, she met someone online, and within a month, got married, at 18. Needless to say it was not for reason of love and commitment. Kristin married to find sense of security, and to escape. Six months after saying “I do,” Kristin left, and a year after, at the age of 19 she was officially divorced.

The hard times she survived through, for about three years: Including being admitted to Inpatient Psychiatric Unit of local hospitals on several occasions, for reason of having the entire trauma, stuck inside of me. Her “support system” in New Jersey did not allow her  to release all the emotional pain and suffering she was in a sense “possessed” by, and it grew like a cancer, eating her alive mentally. In addition, outside of being a psychiatric inpatient, she tells all about involving herself in wrong crowds, not going to college, and not working. Stuck in a state of feeling lost, misunderstood, alone, and thought her life to be purposeless.

Yet, in the end, she has gained insight to the positive experiences and lessons learned throughout these programs and traumas, despite their negativity. Kristin has learned so much, and finally decided it was time to take all of the negatives in her life, and turn them into positives. Where she is now in her life, which is honestly such a blessing, took such hard work. She persevered through many struggles, downfalls, and most importantly, through her “troubled teen years”. This would explain how Kristin found hope, how she is now working vigorously and proactively to make her dreams (which Kristin once felt hopeless about) come true.

Its All Good main purpose is to bring awareness to the hidden secret, which is, to never give up hope, believe in yourself, and to never hesitate or be afraid of failure. We never know the outcome, until we give it all we have got, and each one of us has something unique and wonderful to contribute to the world.

The most important lessons learned were how to not let yourself fall, and if you do, to know how to pick yourself right back up and how to be an important voice that is waiting to be heard.

Finally through all the darkest times in Kristin’s young life, it became a choice of whether to dwell on the traumas and the dramas, or whether to be in a state of mind where, “it’s all good.” As long as we are able to stay there in the state of mind and environment of “it’s all good” then it shall remain that way always and forever.