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My Cup Wasn't Empty-It Was Cracked: A Journey Back to Myself, My Peace, and Loving Me Fully
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralMetaphysical GeneralSelf-Help
Publisher Price: $31.99
Publisher: Soul-Full Vibes Publishing
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
hernika L. Corbett spent years being the strong one-the mother, caregiver, leader, helper, problem-solver, entrepreneur, and woman who somehow kept showing up even when life kept taking pieces out of her.
She survived a fourteen-year relationship that slowly changed the way she saw herself. She rebuilt after leaving. She carried family responsibilities, career pressure, grief, major life transitions, and the devastating loss of her brother-all while learning that looking strong and being okay are not the same thing.
For years, Chernika thought her cup was simply empty.
It wasn't.
It was cracked.
And no matter how much she tried to pour back into it, something deeper needed to be repaired.
My Cup Wasn't Empty-It Was Cracked is Chernika's deeply personal, honest, sometimes funny, faith-filled journey back to herself. Through heartbreak, grief, boundaries, friendship, entrepreneurship, love, self-care, faith, and a whole lot of learning to protect her peace, she discovers that healing isn't about becoming the woman she used to be.
It's about becoming the woman she was always meant to be.
And baby, she's still Chernika.
She's still going to overthink sometimes. She's still going to laugh. She's still going to season a sentence when necessary. She's still going to have her coffee. And yes, being a Libra, she's probably still going to remind you that she keeps the world balanced.
But now she's doing something differently.
She's no longer leaving herself off the list.
Part memoir, part reflection, and part invitation to look at your own cup, this book speaks especially to the people who are so accustomed to carrying, fixing, helping, leading, loving, and surviving that they don't realize how much of themselves they've given away.
Chernika doesn't offer a perfect ending or pretend healing magically fixes everything. Instead, she invites you to ask yourself the same questions she eventually had to face:
What is draining me?
What am I still carrying that no longer belongs to me?
What does protecting my peace actually look like?
When was the last time I poured into myself with the same intention I pour into everyone else?
Because you don't have to wait until your cup is empty to take care of it. You don't have to apologize for boundaries. You don't have to lose yourself to prove that you love somebody. And you don't have to become perfect before you deserve peace.
Sometimes the most important person you will ever learn to choose is you.
Repair what needs repairing.
Release what needs releasing.
Protect what you've rebuilt.
Pour back into yourself-fully.
Because your cup matters too.
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