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Coles THE WOMAN I BECAME: TRAUMA, HEALING & BUILDING A LIFE WORTH LIVING: The Becoming Memoirs, #2 at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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The Woman I Became
Trauma, Healing & Building a Life Worth Living
Some people survive their childhood.
Others spend the rest of their lives trying to escape it.
For years, I thought survival was the same thing as living.
I was wrong.
The Woman I Became is the deeply personal story of what happens after survival—when the world expects you to move on, but your body still remembers every wound, every silence, and every lesson trauma taught you to believe.
After a childhood marked by instability, abuse, and impossible choices, adulthood wasn't the fresh start I'd imagined. I carried my past into every relationship, every heartbreak, every fear of abandonment, and every attempt to build the life I desperately wanted but didn't yet know how to create.
From infertility and devastating pregnancy loss to a marriage born from survival instead of security, I spent years searching for love while quietly wondering if I was too broken to keep it.
But healing has never been about forgetting.
It's about telling the truth.
With unflinching honesty, The Woman I Became explores the invisible ways trauma shapes identity, motherhood, marriage, self-worth, and the courage it takes to break generations of pain. This isn't a story of perfect healing or easy answers. It's about choosing yourself when you've spent a lifetime believing everyone else mattered more.
It's about rebuilding from the inside out.
About discovering that strength isn't measured by how much pain you can endure, but by the moment you decide your past no longer gets to write your future.
Heartbreaking, hopeful, and ultimately empowering, The Woman I Became is for every woman who has questioned her worth, carried wounds no one could see, or wondered if peace was meant for everyone except her.
Because survival made her who she was.
But healing revealed who she was always meant to become.
The Woman I Became
Trauma, Healing & Building a Life Worth Living
Some people survive their childhood.
Others spend the rest of their lives trying to escape it.
For years, I thought survival was the same thing as living.
I was wrong.
The Woman I Became is the deeply personal story of what happens after survival—when the world expects you to move on, but your body still remembers every wound, every silence, and every lesson trauma taught you to believe.
After a childhood marked by instability, abuse, and impossible choices, adulthood wasn't the fresh start I'd imagined. I carried my past into every relationship, every heartbreak, every fear of abandonment, and every attempt to build the life I desperately wanted but didn't yet know how to create.
From infertility and devastating pregnancy loss to a marriage born from survival instead of security, I spent years searching for love while quietly wondering if I was too broken to keep it.
But healing has never been about forgetting.
It's about telling the truth.
With unflinching honesty, The Woman I Became explores the invisible ways trauma shapes identity, motherhood, marriage, self-worth, and the courage it takes to break generations of pain. This isn't a story of perfect healing or easy answers. It's about choosing yourself when you've spent a lifetime believing everyone else mattered more.
It's about rebuilding from the inside out.
About discovering that strength isn't measured by how much pain you can endure, but by the moment you decide your past no longer gets to write your future.
Heartbreaking, hopeful, and ultimately empowering, The Woman I Became is for every woman who has questioned her worth, carried wounds no one could see, or wondered if peace was meant for everyone except her.
Because survival made her who she was.
But healing revealed who she was always meant to become.
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