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A Memoir
When the rose-colored lenses shatter, the view is sharper, and so are you. Janelle Alexis Flatt’s 28-chapter memoir of survival turned sovereignty.
In the whirlwind of a life that reads like a twisted fairy tale, Janelle Alexis Flatt emerges from the wreckage of betrayal, addiction and shattering heartbreak as a force of unapologetic resilience.
From a childhood marked by instability and early trauma to building a thriving beauty business while battling toxic relationships, a daughter’s near-fatal spiral into drugs and a marriage destroyed by brazen infidelity, she faces every hammer life swings: reality TV disasters, spiritual awakenings through sacred plant medicine in Peru, and a divorce war that exposes every scar.
When rock bottom arrives, Janelle doesn’t break. She rebuilds. Rose Colored Glasses is a 28-chapter memoir of survival turned sovereignty, written with biting humor, brutal honesty and hard-won wisdom. For fans of Wild and Educated.
“I needed to read this book when I was going through it. It didn’t exist. So I wrote it.”Janelle Alexis Flatt
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Rose Colored Glasses is Janelle Alexis Flatt’s 28-chapter memoir: a childhood marked by instability, building a beauty business, toxic relationships, a daughter’s spiral into addiction, reality TV, a marriage destroyed by infidelity, healing journeys in Peru and the rebuilding of a fiercer, freer life.
Yes. It is a nonfiction memoir Janelle wrote about her own life, told with brutal honesty and dark humor.
Readers who loved memoirs like Wild and Educated, women rebuilding after divorce or betrayal, and anyone who needs proof that you can survive the worst and come out sharper.
The book discusses addiction, infidelity, divorce, family trauma and plant-medicine ceremonies. Readers sensitive to these topics may want to pace themselves.
Paperback, hardcover, Kindle and audiobook, plus Barnes & Noble and Apple Books. Published March 2026 by Beyond Publishing (ISBN 979-8903481002).
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