Staying Strong

Description

Demi Lovato is a platinum-selling recording artist whose latest album - DEMI - became an instant smash hit. A judge on the US version of X-Factor, she has just launched The Lovato Treatment Scholarship Program, and has become an outspoken advocate for young people everywhere. Demi is also a young woman finding her way in the world, and she has dealt deftly with her struggles in the face of public scrutiny. Although she has had the support of friends and family, she has always relied heavily on her own daily affirmations of her self-worth and value. Affirmations that steady her days and strengthen her resolve. Those affirmations have grown into STAYING STRONG, a 365-day collection of Demi's most powerful, honest, and hopeful insights. Each day will provide the readers with a quote, a personal reflection and a goal. These are Demi's words. Words she lives by and shares with the people she loves and total strangers alike. They are a powerful testament to a young woman standing up and fighting back.

Twenty-one-year-old Demi Lovato's fame began when she was cast on 'Barney and Friends'. From the outside, she was all smiles; but even as she grew up in front of the camera, she was falling apart. As Demi entered adolescence, she was being bullied, and she struggled with bulimia, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, and eventually secretly began cutting herself. Her career was taking off, but she bowed out of her world-wide tour and checked herself into rehab, which she successfully completed. She started the Lovato Treatment Scholarship program to help others with their illnesses. Demi has many accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, twenty-five Teen Choice Awards nominations (14 of which she has won), four People's Choice Awards, one ALMA award, a Billboard Touring Award and several others. Outside of her work in the entertainment industry, Lovato is involved in philanthropic activity through charity work and various social and environmental causes. In May 2013 she was awarded for her dedication as a mentor to teens and young adults with mental health challenges at a National Children's Mental Health Awareness day hosted by SAMHSA in Washington.