Vicki Mills is a life-long Educator and Biologist. She writes "self-help" books to give her readers knowledge, strategies and "know-how" to be able to improve their lives and not allow life to blind-side them. Her writing comes from a long life, filled with adventure and fortuitous opportunities. She has a B. Ed. from University of Miami and an M.S. and M.Ed. from Florida International University. From the beginning of her career while teaching biology, she developed and designed the Sex Education curriculum for 6th and 7th graders for Miami-Dade County Schools. She fought disparate treatment of women and girls in advertising, by developing, writing and teaching a course to teachers called, "We Are People" for elementary schools. Her love of awakening the wonder of science in children, gave birth to the award-winning, "Incredible Inside-Out Body T-shirt and Owner's Manual". In 1970, the T-Shirt became a course. It educated thousands of children while she was Director of Education at the Miami Museum of Science, and was featured at the "International Year of the Child" Exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum, two separate times at their Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2018, at the Tribeca Film Festival, NYC, she was proud to be in the cast interviewed in the acclaimed Netflix documentary, "The Bleeding Edge". It is an "eye-opening look at the medical device industry which reveals how their rush to innovate leads to devastating consequences for patients", particularly women!
Vicki's 21-year career in USDA, a male dominated agency, as a biologist, took her to Hawaii and gave her the opportunities to rise to the top of her profession; while still teaching for the agency and working in civil rights, she did every job that being an Agriculture Inspector, Federal Officer requires. She enforced laws at US boarders in both Hawaii and Miami Airports, boarded planes, was detailed to Airforce and Marine Bases (looking for snakes in airplanes' wheel wells), boarded ships, worked on both outbreaks of Medfly in California, Citrus Canker in Florida, even dumpster dived like the men, when the need arose. She wrote and got cooperation for the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Miami Airport, used between USDA and Station Managers of Airlines, during the Foot and Mouth Epidemic in England, to stop the spread of that disease from entering the US. She has traveled extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia and still travels several months throughout the year. Her travels have taken her to 65 countries, allowed her to study Japanese language, had the experience of teaching English in China and living in Hawaii, Philippines, and Hungary. Currently with this "Epidemic of Narcissism", she can be found every day, on over 40 Facebook chat groups giving out information and answering questions about how to deal with narcissistic partners. Because the majority of narcissists are men, the women are the ones in the most need of her advice. Her book, The Opposite of Love, is a labor of love which demystifies for woman this personality disorder and provides a roadmap to finding their inner power. From her own lived experiences, she shares with the reader what they will need to get through or avoid relationships with narcissists with dignity, self-esteem intact, survive, heal, and move into the emotionally healthy life they deserve.

“A tactical guide for dealing with narcissistic people.”
– Kirkus Reviews