The Way Home Reclaiming Your Self After Abandonment

You were taught to leave yourself to survive. To shrink your needs, silence your voice, and disappear just enough to keep others near. But every silence, every hidden truth, every performance was only a reenactment of the original wound: abandonment. The Way Home: Reclaiming Your Self After Abandonment is a guide for those who have carried the ache of being left and the habit of leaving themselves.
With compassion, insight, and gentle practices, M. Williams leads you through a journey of recognition, release, and reclamation-showing that healing begins the moment you choose to remain with yourself. Inside these pages, you'll discover: Why abandonment wounds echo through adulthood in patterns of fear, shame, and self-doubt. How to recognize the cycles of self-abandonment you've unconsciously repeated.
Gentle practices to rebuild trust, reclaim joy, and learn to receive love without fear. Ways to set boundaries, reparent your inner child, and create belonging without disappearing. This is not a book about erasing your past. It is a book about rewriting your story. It is about choosing, again and again, to stay. Because home is not a place you find in someone else. It is the place you return to within yourself.