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Shattered, Still Mom
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Shattered, Still Mom
She spent her childhood learning how to survive.
Now she has two daughters depending on her to know how to love.
For most of her life, Ella Carter has known there are pieces of herself she cannot explain. Missing memories. Unfamiliar handwriting. Moments she can't remember. Feelings that seem to belong to someone else. What she doesn't understand as a child is that her mind has created different identities to survive the trauma she could never escape.
As Ella grows from a frightened little girl into a confused teenager and eventually a young woman, the cracks in her life become harder to hide. Relationships become complicated. Memories begin surfacing. And the woman she sees in the mirror doesn't always feel like the woman everyone else knows.
Then Ella becomes a mother.
She has two daughters now-two little girls who look at her with complete trust. And suddenly, her greatest fear isn't what happened to her.
It's what might happen because of it.
Ella is determined to break the cycle that nearly destroyed her. But motherhood doesn't wait for therapy sessions, healing breakthroughs, or perfect mental stability. There are sleepless nights, overwhelming emotions, dissociation, painful memories, and moments when she isn't sure which part of herself is in control.
And her daughters are beginning to notice.
As Ella struggles to understand her Dissociative Identity Disorder while raising the two people she loves most, she must confront the memories her mind buried long ago-and the parts of herself she spent years afraid to know.
Because protecting her daughters means facing the very past she has spent her entire life running from.
And if she can't learn to make peace with every part of herself, she risks losing the one thing she has fought hardest to build:
a safe childhood for her girls.
But when the past finally reveals its darkest secret, Ella is forced to ask herself a question she never imagined she'd have to answer-
Can a woman who was shattered by her childhood become the mother who finally breaks the cycle?
She may be fractured.
She may not always remember.
She may not always understand herself.
But every part of her loves her daughters.
Shattered, Still Mom.
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