In A Year Without Men, Allison Carmen offers 12 simple, practical tools to inspire and empower women to find joy, success, and passion in their professional and personal lives.

On June 30, 2018, Allison Carmen’s husband came home from the gym and unexpectedly announced that he was leaving her after 27 years of marriage.

Allison didn’t realize it then, but this would mark the beginning of a challenging but empowering experience — a year without men. To be clear, this is not a book set against men. It is a book about women developing without men, sometimes despite men, and sometimes beyond men.

It is about helping women find those places within themselves that they shut down because they don’t feel loved or accepted or think they aren’t smart or strong enough to succeed.

It is about inspiring women to move away from how other people understand them and move toward understanding themselves. It is about women supporting themselves emotionally, physically, and financially in any circumstance.

Allison lays out a 12-point guide in this book to inspire and empower women to take this journey and find more joy, success, and fulfillment.