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The Child Who Learned to Hide: A Memoir of Survival, Silence, and the Childhood That Shaped Me
Paperback
Series: The Child Who Learned to Hide Collection, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 30 2026
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before she ever learned how to live, Christina learned how to hide.
Born into a family shaped by violence, silence, addiction, and emotional abandonment, Christina spent her childhood searching for proof that she had ever belonged anywhere. There were houses that looked normal from the outside, adults who should have protected her, and a father whose cruelty taught her to survive by becoming small.
As she grew older, survival followed her into love.
From homelessness and young motherhood to abusive marriages, custody battles, courtrooms, financial destruction, and the long aftermath of trauma, Christina carried the wounded child inside her while trying desperately to become the mother she never had. Again and again, she built homes that were supposed to save her, only to learn that a house is not safety when fear lives inside it.
But this is not only a story of abuse.
It is a story of breaking silence. Of choosing children over family systems. Of surviving the kind of harm that does not always leave visible bruises. Of learning that emotional, verbal, mental, and financial abuse can echo long after the abuser is gone. And of discovering that healing is not becoming untouched by the past - it is learning how to stop abandoning yourself because of it.
Raw, intimate, and deeply honest, The Child Who Learned to Hide is a memoir about childhood trauma, domestic abuse, motherhood, survival, and the long, imperfect road toward peace.
For every person who has ever lived inside a private hell no one else could see, this book says:
It counted.
You counted.
And survival was never the whole story.
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