The Hidden Cries Behind Her Smile is a book filled with journal entries from one woman's journey of discovering that she was living in an emotionally, mentally and verbally abusive marriage. In this book you will find some of her deepest and rawest emotions as she began to unpack all of the pain that this abuse had left on her mind and her heart. This type of abuse is one that is not talked about a lot because you cannot see the marks that it leaves on one's body. In the pages of this book the writer paints a picture of the wounds and the scars that emotional, mental and verbal abuse does to a person's heart and mind. You can almost hear her cries as you read through her journal entries, the cries that were hidden behind her smile for so long.