Stitched Up
by Hayley Solich, Founder, Growth Zone Academy
Stitched Up is a powerful, deeply personal story of survival, resilience and advocacy.
For more than three decades, award-winning advocate Kath Mazzella has lived with the lifelong physical and emotional impacts of vulval cancer—an illness that remains one of the least understood and least talked about cancers affecting women. In Stitched Up, Kath courageously shares her journey through diagnosis, radical surgery, loss, recovery, and the determination to transform her pain into purpose.
With honesty, warmth and moments of unexpected humour, Kath exposes the silence and stigma surrounding vulval cancer while challenging the misconceptions that leave too many women unaware of the signs and too afraid to seek help. Her story is not only one of survival but of hope, education and empowerment.
Stitched Up is a call to break the silence, use the right words, have the difficult conversations, and ensure no woman feels alone in her experience. Whether you are a woman, a family member, a healthcare professional or simply someone who believes every story matters, this book will leave you informed, inspired and determined to help change the conversation.
Because awareness saves lives—and silence never should.
More books by Hayley Solich, Founder, Growth Zone Academy
Is this Grief?
Making Sense of Loss, Change and What You're Feeling
Is this Grief? is a compassionate, practical, and deeply human guide for anyone navigating the complex terrain of loss. Drawing on lived experience, emotional literacy frameworks, and decades of supporting carers, families, and community members, this book offers a gentle yet empowering approach to understanding grief in all its forms.
Rather than treating grief as something to “get over,” this book honours it as a natural, embodied process—one that requires space, support, and intentional expression. It acknowledges that grief lives not only in the mind, but in the body and spirit, and invites readers to move through their pain with curiosity, kindness, and courage.
It invites you make sense of suffering, find meaning in what feels unbearable, and begin to live again in a way that honours what has been lost
Within these pages you’ll find:
* Clear, accessible explanations of how grief affects your emotions, thoughts, and physical wellbeing
* Practical tools and reflective exercises to help you express and process your grief safely
* Stories of lived experience that remind you you’re not alone in the journey
* Encouragement to honour your own pace, without judgement or pressure
* A strengths-based approach that respects your resilience while acknowledging the weight of your loss
Is this Grief? offers a steady hand through the confusion, numbness, overwhelm, and unexpected moments that come with loss. It gently guides you from merely surviving grief toward integrating it—so you can rebuild meaning, reconnect with yourself, and step forward when you’re ready.
Whether you are grieving a person, a relationship, a life transition, or the loss of identity, this book gives you permission to feel it all and the tools to carry your grief in a healthier, more grounded way. It is a reminder that while grief changes us, it can also grow us—and that with compassion, connection, and support, you truly can grieve well.
I Matter
From Crisis to Peace: A Journey of Boundaries, Healing and Hope
What happens when a mother on the edge of collapse writes two small words that change everything?
For years, Hayley Solich lived in survival mode — navigating addiction, mental health struggles, and the relentless demands of caring for others. Chaos ruled her home, fear ruled her heart, and she was disappearing under the weight of it all. Until one desperate day, she grabbed a piece of paper, wrote I Matter, and stuck it to the fridge.
Those two words became the turning point.
In I Matter, Hayley shares her raw and honest story of transformation — from living in crisis to reclaiming peace. Through powerful lived experiences and practical insights, she shows how choosing boundaries, pausing instead of panicking, and letting go of what isn’t ours to carry can open the door to healing.
Each chapter combines:
Real-life stories of navigating family chaos and grief
Reflections and wisdom that shift perspective
Simple practices to help you apply the lessons in your own life
This is not just a memoir — it’s a teaching memoir, a companion on the journey back to yourself.
If you’ve ever felt invisible, exhausted, or lost in the caring role, I Matter will remind you that your healing matters, your courage matters, and your peace matters.
Because when you believe you matter, everything begins to change.
Ready - Charlotte
Book 1 of the Twisted Sisters Series
Charlotte is an ice queen in designer heels — the envy of women and the desire of men — polished, poised, untouchable. She can pull off an event for 5,000 high-profile guests without breaking a sweat… but she doesn’t know her way around a kitchen and has never stepped foot inside a department store.
The perfect blend of brilliance and raw naivety.
But Charlotte’s greatest performance isn’t on stage — it’s in the way she keeps her heart locked down, even from the people who share her blood.
Because there’s a family secret stitching together three siblings like an invisible seam. It shaped who they became, what they learned to hide, and the roles they still play when they’re forced into each other’s orbit.
When pressure builds and the past starts pushing its way into the present, Charlotte discovers there are some things you can’t out-plan, out-manage, or out-shine. Especially when the one person who shouldn’t matter… does.
And the love she never anticipated isn’t convenient, controlled, or safe — it’s the kind that reaches for the part of her no one has ever been allowed to touch.
READY is sharp, addictive, and emotionally loaded — a story of siblings, secrets, and the moment a woman realises that being untouchable isn’t the same as being free.
Willing - Anna
Book 2 of the Twisted Sisters Series
Book Two of the Twisted Sisters Series
Wiling, Anna
When you’ve been trained to control everything… surrender can be the most dangerous move.
Anna Carruthers didn’t build an empire by trusting anyone. As CEO, she’s the sister who keeps the wheels turning, the secrets buried, and the world at a safe distance. But a brutal will has already torn her life open once—and now the threats aren’t confined to boardrooms and bank accounts.
A shadow project with a name no one will say out loud. A family legacy wired with lies. Enemies who don’t just want the Arthurs fortune—they want the sisters fractured, exposed, and easy to claim.
As pressure closes in from every direction, Anna is forced into impossible choices: protect the company or protect the women she never knew she’d need. Hold the line… or risk everything on a man she shouldn’t want and can’t afford to believe.
Because this time, the price of staying in control might be losing it all.
Able - Lillian
Book 3 of the Twisted Sisters Series
Book Three of the Twisted Sisters Series
Able, Lillian
She never wanted the empire. She just wanted her life back.
Lillian “Miss Lily” has always been the sister who keeps the peace—until her song ‘Taken’ becomes an overnight sensation, fueled by the public’s obsession with the sisters’ tragedy. The fame turns her into the most visible target of all.
Because fame is a spotlight… and someone has been waiting in the dark.
As the last pieces of their father’s deception surface, the sisters are forced to confront the truth behind the B6 project—powerful enough to buy silence, erase evidence, and turn loyalty into a weapon. The police are closing in. Old enemies are panicking. And the men closest to them are no longer safe assumptions.
Paul’s mask begins to slip. Brett’s intentions come into focus. And the quiet pull between Lily and Tim becomes impossible to ignore—especially when staying apart might be the safest choice.
In Able, the Twisted Sisters trilogy reaches its explosive conclusion—where love is a liability, truth is a threat, and survival demands more than strength. It demands each other.