A New Me, Who Knew Me

Description:

What if the person you were trying to save was you all along? A New Me, Who Knew Me: The Necessary Fiction of a Complicated Truth is a raw, intimate exploration of what happens when survival is no longer enough. Tarin Creek has spent years helping others confront their wounds while carefully hiding her own. A gifted therapist, mother, and survivor of a complicated past, she has mastered the appearance of strength—even when the woman beneath it is quietly unraveling. Then fifteen-year-old Teegan walks into her office. Something about the girl feels strangely familiar. As their sessions deepen, Teegan's questions force Tarin to confront marriage, motherhood, family secrets, friendship, betrayal, mental illness, generational trauma, and the ways women can mistake endurance for strength. Along the way, Tarin discovers that faith isn't about having all the answers. Sometimes it's simply trusting that God has been present in the pieces of your life you thought were beyond repair—and finding the courage to see yourself differently because of it. Moving between past and present, fiction and emotional truth, A New Me, Who Knew Me asks: How do you heal the woman you became without abandoning the girl you once were? Painful, funny, provocative, and deeply human, this is more than a story about surviving what hurt you. It's a story about grace, becoming, and finally coming home to yourself.

subjects: women's psychological fiction,  Autobiographical fiction,  Stress Disorders,  Post-Traumatic,  inner-child healing,  self-discover,  generational trauma,  black women's fiction,  marriage and divorce,  mental health,  motherhood,  family secrets,  faith and healing,  emotional abuse,  domestic abuse recovery,  women's resilience,  forgiveness,  boundaries,  black men's health,  depression,  Schizophrenia,  bi-polar,  mental health stigma,  Christian faith,  becoming

People: Self

Places: New York,  Oklahoma,  Minnesota,  Texas

Times: 1989 to 2024