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Returning Home
Hardcover
Publisher: Todd Michael Publishing
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Returning Home is a memoir about the lifelong impact of childhood trauma, the silence it creates, and the courage required to reclaim one's identity.
The story opens with the author's heart attack - a literal stopping point that forces him to confront the truth he has spent decades outrunning. From there, the memoir moves back to his childhood in Chula Vista, where early experiences of abuse, bullying, and cultural expectations taught him to shrink, hide, and survive.
A Filipino American boy grows up in a home where silence is survival, obedience is demanded, and the truth is too dangerous to speak. In this powerful memoir, Todd traces the hidden wounds of childhood trauma-abuse, shame, cultural expectations, and the unspoken rules that shaped his identity long before he understood their cost.
From Guam to Chula Vista, from corporate boardrooms to the quiet moments of adulthood where memory finally catches up, Todd unravels the lifelong impact of being told to stay quiet, stay small, and stay invisible. What begins as a story of a frightened child becomes the journey of a man reclaiming his voice, his history, and his sense of self.
With honesty, clarity, and emotional precision, he confronts the generational patterns that kept him silent, the cultural pressures that taught him to hide, and the personal reckoning that ultimately set him free. This memoir is not only about trauma-it is about resilience, identity, and the courage to finally tell the truth.
For anyone who has carried childhood wounds into adulthood, or who has struggled to break free from the stories they were raised to believe, this book offers recognition, companionship, and hope.
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