As an author, therapist, and advocate for children, families, and marriage, I am reminded that you never truly know the weight of your words until they return to you in someone else’s healing.
Feedback like this is not just affirmation—it is evidence that stories can reach into the fractures of a life and begin to mend what once felt beyond repair.
It is why I write, why I listen, and why I will never stop speaking for those who feel unseen. The following is authored by Nicole Angai-Galindo
When you see your life on the pages of a book, written by another, it’s hard to ignore. There were too many instances where I looked into the mirror, only to see another’s reflection instead.
“The reflections I saw were of other broken people, whose stories in this book were mine.”
I was not the only one impacted by my second divorce, though at the time, it felt that way. It felt as if I had taken a blow that I would never recover from. As a parent, I had a nagging, but shamefully faint feeling that my son was also being affected by this.
Struggling to figure out how we would now survive as a single-parent household, though my ex-husband was his stepfather, left me empty at the end of each day. What was left over for my son?
Had he not just lost a stepfather and a stepbrother?
How was he processing these emotions when I, as an adult, could not?
When you read a book that outlines the issues, explains them through real-life experiences that echo yours, and then gives you the resources to take the first step toward releasing the guilt, so you can take the next step to address the issue, you hold onto it like a lifeline.
I may have read the manuscript and taken much to heart, but when this book releases, I will be the first in line to get my paperback.
I need to feel the weight of this insight from someone who has dealt with this personally and professionally, all of his life, and thrived.
I need it like I need the air I breathe because within its pages, I have found healing, and I know you will too.
Piece by Piece, My Blended Experience of a Mosaic Family, by Dr. Steve Hudgins, releasing this fall, is not a book.
It is a lifeline for everyone in today’s society who is living with shattered pieces of lives that need to be pieced back together. Not haphazardly, not hurriedly, but with intention, care, and enduring love.
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