The long way back to myself: A memoir of trauma survival and choosing freedom
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The long way back to myself: A memoir of trauma survival and choosing freedom
Sale price
$35.99
Regular price $43.99
For twenty-five years, she believed she could not leave.
At fourteen, Elisia fell in love with a seventeen-year-old boy who said all the right things. What began as intensity quickly became control. What felt like passion became violence. What she thought was love became a trauma bond that would define the next two decades of her life.
Inside that relationship were four children, untreated Bipolar I disorder, addiction, public humiliation, broken bones, broken teeth, and years of silence. She lied to protect him.
She blamed herself. She stayed far longer than she ever imagined she would. Until one day, at thirty-seven years old, she walked away with nothing but the clothes on her body.
The Long Way Back to Myself is a raw, chronological memoir that doubles as a trauma-to-healing roadmap. It is the story of surviving generational abuse, navigating mental illness and addiction, taking accountability for personal failures, and rebuilding a life from the ground up. But more than anything, it is proof.
Proof that trauma bonds can be broken.
Proof that addiction does not have to be the ending.
Proof that even after twenty-five years, freedom is possible.
Proof that you are not too far gone.
This book is for the woman who feels trapped.
For the mother who is afraid to start over.
For the survivor who thinks she waited too long.
If she can leave after twenty-five years…
You can too.
At fourteen, Elisia fell in love with a seventeen-year-old boy who said all the right things. What began as intensity quickly became control. What felt like passion became violence. What she thought was love became a trauma bond that would define the next two decades of her life.
Inside that relationship were four children, untreated Bipolar I disorder, addiction, public humiliation, broken bones, broken teeth, and years of silence. She lied to protect him.
She blamed herself. She stayed far longer than she ever imagined she would. Until one day, at thirty-seven years old, she walked away with nothing but the clothes on her body.
The Long Way Back to Myself is a raw, chronological memoir that doubles as a trauma-to-healing roadmap. It is the story of surviving generational abuse, navigating mental illness and addiction, taking accountability for personal failures, and rebuilding a life from the ground up. But more than anything, it is proof.
Proof that trauma bonds can be broken.
Proof that addiction does not have to be the ending.
Proof that even after twenty-five years, freedom is possible.
Proof that you are not too far gone.
This book is for the woman who feels trapped.
For the mother who is afraid to start over.
For the survivor who thinks she waited too long.
If she can leave after twenty-five years…
You can too.