You: The Road Back to You series, #1

By Katie Merritt

An empowering nonfiction ebook that shares the spiritual journey of the author herself, and how it lead her to self realization, overcoming codependency, and surviving narcissists. This book sets the stage for the coming books in this series, The Road Back to You. Through words of encouragement, quotes of empowerment and inspirational country music lyrics, this book, You, teaches one important lesson. Always be you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katie Merritt
• Release date: Jun 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227142917

Katie Merritt

As an author, I read a lot. I not only read books, but I read articles, blogs, research, etc. I want to learn as much as I possibly can. Being a literary author is like being a contemporary artist. You can write about a variety of genres and find an audience everywhere. Writing is one of the most honest art forms out there in my opinion. #You can choose what and how to write, even if it's a lie. People will still read it. Stick to what You know. Be You Always!!! Being an author isn't a job for me! It's who I am.

Book preview

Foreword:

I’ve always allowed everyone to bring me down to the point I would give up on what I was trying to accomplish. Up until this point, I have allowed it. Empowering people has always been my life-long goal. I just didn’t know what capacity that would be until Now! When I first started this book, I didn’t have an exact ending in mind. I didn’t even know what this book would be about. I just knew I wanted to write again, and put my voice into the world. Since starting over twice, in more ways than one, I’ve overachieved my end goal I originally had in mind. I’ve not only empowered one person, but thousands. When I wrote my first book, Broken Girl: Memoirs to the World, I wrote it in bed laying next to one of the You’s that brought me here. He has never supported me in anything I do or have accomplished. He’s belittled me to the point I gave up on myself, my dreams, and my mission to this world. I believe everyone is created for greatness. After going through the last year purely and utterly alone, he is the YOU who has helped me create my dreams again. He inspired me to be me again because I took the pain and suffering and turned it into a positive. All the pain, all the suffering has led me here. So, thank you for showing me how I have turned EVIL into Clarity.

Chapter 1 Enough

The three times I felt happy with you was when I truly felt whole and me again. This path I’ve traveled to get here has been a very turbulent path, but without you, I wouldn’t have all these children to teach and empower. It took a lifetime to get here, but I finally did it! The day I met you, the day you drove to Hershey just to see me, and when you told me I deserved to be treated like a princess, were the happiest moments together that made me fall for you. You showed me the you I see you for. From that first day, I saw a man I wanted to create a family with. Something changed in you, and I spent six years waiting for the you I once fell for, the one I saw you for.

One day you wake up, and you decide enough is enough. No matter the amount of pain I have endured, I am still here believing I was put here for a purpose. Up until this point in my life, I have been in a whirlwind of back and forth, not knowing my worth, not knowing who or what I am truly meant to be. I always wanted to leave an impact on the world, a statement, a change for all of mankind. I wanted to be the one who history would be talking about to our children’s children’s children. I always believed in love, fate, hopes, dreams, and most of all destiny. I always believed in being kind and making a difference. That has always been me!

Years of negativity turned me into a depressed, miserable shell of a being. All the negativity turned me into someone I never wanted to be. My goal my entire life was to be normal. Have a career, a family, a house to call my own, to be happy, teach, be successful. Simplicity; that’s all I asked for.

Last year at this time, I achieved some of the things I always set out to, and all on my own. The partner I thought I had, the one I thought I would spend my life with completely turned into someone I don’t know anymore.  I have never met so much evil in one person in my life. The things I have endured over the last six years were enough, but the last year he became