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This is Forty: Living Authentically
Paperback
Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralSelf-Help
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
For a long time, survival looked like success.
If she could endure, adapt, and keep going, she believed she was doing life right. Strength meant pushing through. Love meant earning it. Rest felt like something other people deserved.
In This Is Forty, Korina Maestas tells the truth about what it took to stop surviving and start living.
Through childhood trauma, conditional love, motherhood, and healing, she traces the quiet transformation that happens when a woman chooses herself-without apology. This is not a story of overnight change or perfectly healed wounds. It is a story of unlearning endurance, redefining strength, and coming home to a self that was always there.
This book explores:
The cost of performing for love
Boundaries as self-respect, not punishment
Softness as strength
Motherhood that challenges who you thought you had to be
The moment survival stops working-and honesty begins
Turning forty wasn't the end of her story.
It was the moment she stopped negotiating her place in it.
Written for women who are done proving, done shrinking, and ready to live with intention, This Is Forty is both a memoir and a mirror-an invitation to reflect, release, and begin again.
Because it's not too late.
And you were never behind.
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